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Napa Valley, CA

In 2000, Kirk Mombert grew 3 pumpkins on one 567.5 plant.
He grew the 940 on the primary main, the 934 on a secondary main and the 757 on a secondary. Thats 2631 lbs. on one plant.
Many others have also grown multiple pumpkins on 1 plant totaling well over 2000 lbs.

How do we make these plants focus all that energy into ONE pumpkin instead of 3 or 4 or 5 ???

3/1/2008 12:18:10 AM

Pinedale, WY

Here's what you do, cut the top off the biggest, the put the next biggest in, and cut it's top off and put the 3rd biggest inside it. There you go, a pumpkin that weighs over 2,000 lbs. I really ahve no idea how to do it, this is just the best I came up with.

3/1/2008 12:34:59 AM

Kevinstinindians@yahoo.com

Has anyone ever grown one really long main vine, with no or very short secondaries? By long I mean 40-50'. And by short secondaries I mean one or two leafs. Then put the fruit somewhere near the middle. Could we then direct all the energy of the plant into one fruit? And if we could would that be a good thing or just add up to several blown up pumpkins? Maybe I should try this just to see what happens.

3/1/2008 2:04:59 AM

Rhode Island

your refering to a style of plant called "the freight train"

a base ,a long main, sides only a couple feet long.

you could grow a pumpkin on this style plant but not a competition pumpkin. for larger pumpkins i would think you need a bigger food factory for the pumpkin

3/1/2008 6:05:08 AM

Kevinstinindians@yahoo.com

Hmmm...I may give "the freight train" a try. Just as an experiment, not as one of my main plants, but just to see what happens. If time and space allows I will do it, with one of my own seeds. Kill two birds with one stone, try a different pruning method and one of my own seeds to see what it produces.

3/1/2008 10:40:41 AM

Fairport,NY

I was think of doing something like this in my 900sq.ft patch and use it as a exclusive pollen plant?The hope being that I could still grow two "pumpkin plants in ~450 sq ft without taking away from the potential in growing competition size fruit? I realize 450 sq ft isn't a huge amount of room but its all i have and if I try to pollinate(and its succesful)only 5-lobe females I might have a shot? The "freight train" would go around the perimeter of the Patch to keep as much room for the two "Pumpkin" Plants?
Does this sound like it would work?

3/1/2008 8:01:16 PM