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Georgetown, Ontario

Why doesn't anyone really want this seed? It grew a 1600 pound plus pumpkin and I notice it goes for very little in auctions. I know it went very light, but a 1600 pumpkin still weighs 1600 pounds. It obviously has the ability to grow a huge shell and if crossed with something that has the ability to go heavy should be a good combination. I'm growing it this year and I was just wondering why other people don't seem too excited about this seed???

3/7/2010 8:40:54 AM

Clayton, Ohio, USA

It's been available on the SOGPG seedlist at a reasonable price for quite awhile. Why pay more for it at an auction? I'm sure it will be grown quite a bit this year and if the results are good the 1375 will be a tough seed to find in 2011.

3/7/2010 9:38:16 AM

South Bloomfield, Ohio

Don't look for it to be on the seed list for much longer. We have just about exhausted the supply Dr. Bob has donated for seed sales. My belief is that Dr. Bob and others WILL pop some big ones from it.

3/7/2010 4:52:17 PM

canal winchester ohio

It's going in my patch.

3/7/2010 5:10:22 PM

Ohio

good question Dave, there is alot of seeds out there Im scratching my head about also.

I did hear that Bob cut back on watering that 1600 plus pumpkin more then he had on any other plant that he had grown in the past, one was to try to prevent disease (which he has had alot of problems early in his patch) , and the other reason was because it was growing so dang fast that he didnt want to take a chance of it splitting. I think if a grower would go all out on this seed you wouldn't see very many if any go light again, cause he really did baby that pumpkin alot. (in my opinion)

(Joe, you know Dr Bob better then most of us, would you think that or know that to be true?)

I think there is more Ohio growers out there growing that 1375 seed this year then people know.

3/8/2010 4:36:43 AM

Ohio

And same goes with Todd Skinners 1333 he grew last year, it measured to be way over 1600 lbs , and from what he told me, he way over baby-ed it because of how big it was getting so fast.

I think alot of growers will kinda like hold back on the watering/fertizing when they see a huge pumpkin getting so big so fast only because they havnt seen one grow like that before for them the first time. Im not saying Todd or Bob panic, but I think its a big reason why you see alot of the huge pumpkins that measure really really big that growers kinda ease up on the water and fertilzer because they dont want to risk losing it, (and I cant say that they blame them for doing that,,lol).

Just wondering what Larry Checkon did about watering and fertizing his 1469 that measred in the 1600 to 1700 lbs?,, I just wonder if he backed off on things he normally would have done to that plant because of the size his 1469 was getting that maybe have caused it to go light?

3/8/2010 4:54:40 AM

South Bloomfield, Ohio

I'd like to let Dr. Bob speak for himself, as he occasionally reads the message boards. I can say, however, that several top growers will be planting it.

3/8/2010 5:30:24 AM

Eugene,OR

Brooks, that's pretty interesting about the watering and fertilizing. I was talking to Don Young over the weekend at the CA Growers Meeting and he said that he watered his big ones every day...and they went heavy. I think you might be on to something there. I grew a 954 Pugh last summer(which grew the 1333 Skinner) and mine went 13% heavy...and Skinner's went way light. I poured the water to mine. Too bad mine was smaller.

3/8/2010 1:53:58 PM

Minnesota

I bought a 1375.5, it is going to be pollinated with the 689Beauchemin, 4 generations of 898Knauss in it, the 1375.5 grew the biggest pumpkin in the world, beating the 1354Checkon by a inch, in taping, not weight,,I'm hoping the 689 with all that 898 in it works its magic, and its off spring goes heavy.

3/8/2010 3:07:20 PM

Minnesota

I talked to Don Young in chatroom last mid-late summer about watering, he said he gives his plants 150-200 gallons in the morning, thats not counting afternoon and evening,,I thought that was alot.

3/8/2010 3:09:40 PM

nOVA sCOTIA

One of the biggest dissapointments in this hobby is when your pumpkin hits the scale and goes very light. I'd sooner have a have a wind storm take out the patch.

3/8/2010 3:26:30 PM

canal winchester ohio

I know the stem split on Bob's biggest happened late July so he may have backed off a little, but like Joe said I dont know for sure. The other 2 in his patch went over the charts which is normal for Bob.

3/8/2010 3:37:43 PM

Circleville, Ohio, USA

It is interesting to think back on what if. More water because it was growing at a greater rate than my other pumpkins, more fertilizer, etc. Perhaps the best thing to have done woild have been a mid-season soil test and addressing any elements that were less than ideal. I plan to get in the study that evaluates plant uptake and fertilizer usage. And it true that I looked at the inch and a half deep stem every day and worried about pushing it too much. When we cut it open it was so solid that it could have been pushed harder

3/8/2010 6:03:40 PM

Frankfort Ohio

im growing it again great easy plant grew me a 487 est 22ft out on a side vine pollinated jul 26th not to bad for a rookie

3/8/2010 7:21:37 PM

Frankfort Ohio

i think a 1288 wallace growing down the road might have some pollen missing

3/8/2010 7:22:40 PM