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I've got a single pumkin on my main vine which i've been tending to for almost a month. Ever since it was just a little bump on the vine it was growing pretty fast, especially since it's growing in the worst spot on my property(front yard over weedblock). It's been about a week or two and it's still the size of a softball, it has the typical pumkin shape. It has darkened in color, it was dark green with lighter green stripes, and now it is mostly dark green.

I also noticed that four new buds have sprouted, one on a secondary vine, three on the main vine almost right next to eachother...over night. They seem to be gorwing faster than the other.

I'm using scotts flower and veggie fertilizer which is 20-20-20.
Also the leaves are getting 'dollar spots' on all the leaves, except for new leaves. Is this the cause of too much/too little nitrogen?

9/6/2005 9:00:58 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

What kind of pumpkin are you growing. Sounds like a field pumpkin. If you really want a big pumpkin it has alot to do with the seeds. Atlantic Giant is the variety we use. They are available in the fall for a simple "Please" and a self addressed stamped bubble pack. The dollar spots could be powdery mildew.

9/7/2005 9:08:55 AM

New Jersey

It's not powdery mildew, i know what that looks like, it's all over my girlfriends plant. These are yellow spots about 1/8-1/4" in diameter, they seemed to have stopped showing up on the newer leaves and hasn't progressed much on the older leaves. I've been giving the ground a deep soaking everyday because it looks like we'll be without rain for a while. Seems like that did the trick.

I called them dollar spots because they look a lot like a disease grass gets.

As for what I'm growing, heck, I don't even know, little pumpkin plants just started popping up all over my front lawn and this one was in the area of our old garden. I did transfera plant to test their hardiness and although it went through a dying period it's starting to grow fast.
I believe they are one of the various fall fruits we had sitting on our front lawn. We had those green and orange warty gourds, green warty gourds, smooth pear shaped gourds and some small i guess feild pumkins. The leaves are nothing like anything in the journals, they are smaller and more toorn edged/ivy leaf shaped.

9/7/2005 10:14:19 PM