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I'm looking for other very orange pumpkins that have this approximate shape http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=56862 or http://home.pacbell.net/diana_do/butterball.htm
I already have more promising seeds than I'm able to plant, just curious what's out there.
Related to this question, when a pumpkin is called tall, is that as viewed on its side (as usually grown), or blossom end down as in typical Halloween display? Same question for "long".

2/11/2007 4:57:21 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=58185

I think tall usually means the height of the shoulders of the pumpkin at the stem end when it is growing on its side.
Jim

2/13/2007 1:40:22 PM

Syracuse, NY

1233.5 Reiss, if you can get ahold of a 670 Daigle.

the requested pumpkin shape in the top post is
amazingly like a beautiful "normal" pumpkin from the
store at Halloween, but a lot, lot bigger.

perhaps a 707 Toftness or an 811 Kuhn
(produced some nice ones for Deb and Randy Sundstrom;
1141 and 1023.5 respectively) would be options as well.

MY thought, although not carved in stone
(or pumpkin meat, lol) would be that the height would be the highest point on the pumpkin as it grows in the patch,
much like the top of your head as you stand.

the length would be the distance from the farthest point out on the blossom end, through the fruit to the farthest point out on the stem end.

the width would of course be the distance from
one edge of the fruit to the other, perpendicular to the
stem-blossom line and parallel to the ground.

2/14/2007 4:53:02 PM