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Subject: Density of Flesh
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MeToo! |
Manitoba
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Over the years, after the growing season, when you cut open your kins, do you folks notice that some fruits have denser, thicker, heavier, healthier-looking flesh than others, which may have loose, punky, holey flesh?
If this is correct, then the Weight Estimate Chart, based purely on measurements, would be highly interpretive, would it not. What do you all think.
It's not fair! LOL!
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8/28/2015 1:58:14 PM
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Orangeneck (Team HAMMER) |
Eastern Pennsylvania
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Yes, that's why the pumpkins that go heavy to the charts are highly sought after. To take these genes for dense walls and put them in the next generation. Sometimes when I open one up (usually a squash for me since I don't grow anything but orange) it looks like ice balls or calcium balls in there or something.
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8/29/2015 10:33:40 AM
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Big City Grower (Team coming out of retirement ) |
JACKSON, WISCONSIN. ; )
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Yes I have seen heavy to chart and light to chart all from the same patch... Normally the heavy ones cut like hard wood. Light ones cut more like soft pine .... Wall thickness varies a lot in kins as well... Some 3 to 4 inches some like 10 to 12
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8/29/2015 11:32:48 AM
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Engel's Great Pumpkins and Carvings |
Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)
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Having carved/sculpted just a few giants, I can tell you the pumpkin can have two different flesh types. One is a solid dense flesh that carves like butter. Then next is a fibrous dense flesh that is difficult to carve. If the butt and blossom remain dense. This is where your weight comes from. I often see when pumpkins with thin blossom end, they also weigh light the chart.
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8/29/2015 11:53:24 AM
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MeToo! |
Manitoba
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Thanks to all of you for your replies!
Linus, what do you mean by a pumpkin having a "thin" blossom end.
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8/30/2015 12:56:49 AM
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Bubba Presley |
Muddy Waters
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My 1947 was about 3 to 4 inches thick at the blossom.Would that be thin? or considered thick? Linus?? Just asking? Not looking for a arguement.
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8/30/2015 9:56:55 AM
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Engel's Great Pumpkins and Carvings |
Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)
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The end with the nub, which is normally where splits occur. Mark it all depends on if it is uniform. If you have never crawl up inside a big one, you should. Each rib joint can be easily seen, once your remove the seeds and filaments. Some you wonder how they ever made it to weigh off.
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8/30/2015 1:50:43 PM
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Bubba Presley |
Muddy Waters
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http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=231027
Been there lol
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8/30/2015 4:33:12 PM
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