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Midway City, California

On an normal sunny week how much water would a growing Giant Pumpkin need for a week/day

1/22/2006 4:59:31 PM

Norton, MA

1-2" per day, depending on soil. AleX Noel.

1/22/2006 7:05:20 PM

Mn

On hot weeks i water on the hotest days. For an average week i water about 1"-2".

1/22/2006 7:10:24 PM

Cazenovia, New York

It really depends on your soil structure (sandy, clay,etc.) Some have better drainage than others but on average 1-2 inches per week. More may be needed if it is warm, windy, and you have good drainage. Yo want it damp but not wet.
Rob S.

1/22/2006 8:23:15 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

1 inch of water is about 60 gallons per 100 sq ft. Thus during hot dry weather a 500 sq ft plant can use as much as 600 gallons per week.

1/22/2006 9:33:48 PM

Simi valley, ca

in july here in so ca i use aprox 3000 gallons per week, for 3 600 sq plants, & there not at all soked or ever rot, yes mains are buried & secondarys.

2/1/2006 9:41:16 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

1" - 2" per day or per week? Peace, Wayne

2/2/2006 12:30:14 AM

Montoursville, PA

An inch a week is about average I hear being used. Of course this needs to be weighed with what mother nature provides and the make up of the soil.

High organic content where mycorrhizae is being used would require much less water and nutrients added.

2/2/2006 1:57:53 PM

Knopp, Germany

i like docs answer, but, of course, the queston was not answered, and i believe that is because no one really knows the answer.

have any of the answers been tested? if not, they are all theories. sorta like what climate will grow the next world record.

1469 Checkon was grown in PA from the 1354 Checkon
1458 Whittier was grown in NH from the 582 Hester
1446 Eaton was grown in Canada from the 842 Eaton
1443 Palmer was grown in RI from the 1225.4 Jutras
1432 Carlson=Palmer was grown in IA from the 1097 Beachy

2/2/2006 3:13:38 PM

Knopp, Germany

1420 Larue, was grown from 1104 in washington
1407 grown from the 723 in Ny

So many environments, so much, or little rain? who knows
for sure?

2/2/2006 3:15:43 PM

Montoursville, PA

I am coaching and watching five patches, in which Mycorrhizae plays its role. The OM, of these five patches runs from a low of 3.5%, to a high, of 15%+. All five growers tried to manage with one inch total water input per week.

The two patches over 12% OM had to much natural water early in the season however recoverd from some root loss to reasonably healthy total plants during the dry season when the one inch per week could be managed. The patch which was mine having the highest OM near 17% took longer to recover from the wet periods we had early on. The first ten to fifteen percent in the nursery never did bounce back to what I call healthy. Over the five patches 100% of the fruit finished healthy if not as large as the grower wished. So what else would be new?

One patch was managed with greenhouse techniques and grew the 700 lb.pumpkin for first year growers. Two growers were in the low OM but added mulch to the management. They finishied two, one high seven hundreds and one five hundred. These were two year growers. Our local champ grew an 810 and two five to six hundred pound fruit. This was down just about thirty pounds from his first and second years. He ran short of water and may have lost because he could not keep an inch a week going on. My patch had a big problem. Mostly it was me. I could not deal with the high temperature and humidity. We polinated late and did not have time to mature completely. The plants suffered when it was naturally to wet and again when I could not be as close to the grow as we need to be in this hobby. The bestI can say is "if Id'a". Both fruit stayed healthy and that is a first for me. 400 pounds is not my class but they made nice carvers and fund raisers.

2/2/2006 6:26:48 PM