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Monday, June 06, 2022
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big moon
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Bethlehem CT
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I am seeing lots of photos with nice looking pumpkin plants in peoples diaries. I just saw the Paton's diary, their plants are gorgeous and huge, and we are only in early June! Twenty Years ago, growers would be happy to have plants that were that big in mid to late July. The hobby has really come a long ways in a very short period of time. It has been very exciting for me to see the advances that growers have made to achieve unbelievable weights. Weights that I could not have even fathomed when I started this hobby. I really never thought we would get much over 1500 pounds yet here we are at over 2700 pounds#. I often wonder what the future will hold in general but also specifically what the future will hold in store for this hobby. It seems that things are changing rapidly in the world and perhaps we will not have the luxury to be able to devote so much of our time and money into producing fruits that you can't eat. In Lloyd Bright's book about Giant watermelon growing he talks about a period of time in the 1920's where competitive Giant watermelon cultivation was a common hobby in his part of the country. He states how the great depression put a stop to that and sadly even the 'Triumph' seed variety that was grown at the time was lost forever during the depression. Lets hope that history does not repeat and that we can maintain the Atlantic Giant seed line in perpetuity. Perhaps this type of thinking is too negative, I hope my gut feelings are wrong just like they were about the limits of size that an Atlantic Giant' pumpkin can attain. We will see.
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