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Eugene,OR

I had two fruit growing on big, fat secondaries on my 1420 Larue plant (I lost the main vine early). One of them developed a stem split the other day and split into the cavity. It measured 269" OTT which is an estimated 397 lbs. I chopped up the pieces and weighed them and the actual weight of the fruit was 476 pounds. That means the fruit was 19.9% heavy over the chart! Wow!! If the other 1420 offspring are heavy like mine was, the big ones are going to weigh a LOT.

8/30/2005 11:05:36 PM

Amherst, WI

Pretty impressive. I have a 1420 going but it's only doing 3-5 lbs per day. Hopefully it's heavy like yours. Was your 1420 wheel shaped?

9/6/2005 10:06:41 PM

Rhode Island

we have the 1420 in and it has produced a very pretty wide ribbed nicely rounded fruit
looks like you would hope all your pumpkins will look
last time we taped was 9-8 and she was 735 doing 5 per day at that time
thumps like a thick pumpkin but who knows
the scale will tell the story at either durham,topsfield or ct weigh-off

9/14/2005 6:56:11 AM