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Holton, Michigan

my garden gets 7hrs direct sun problem being oak trees I have cut more than a dozen planing to cut more this year but many are in my neighbors yard does any one else have this problem?

9/29/2012 11:15:49 AM

West Michigan---Hasekg39@gmail.com

I truly believe that full sun is one of the top 5 to a big pumpkin.

Ok here is what ya do just wait for them to go on vacation and then cut them down, and when they come back tell them that some lightning hit one of there trees and the rest caught on fire and it almost burnt your house down but you had there back and got everything squared away...... sorry no good Ideas just bad ones, lol

(are yo going to the Montague weight off ?)

10/1/2012 9:31:17 PM

Fombell, PA

Brosco I like the way you think.

10/1/2012 11:33:15 PM

Muddy Waters

Is that seven hrs now(fall)? or seven hrs in the summer time?Im getting 8 hrs right now,but with all the cloudy weather it's more like 4 or 5 hrs.In the summer I get at least 10-11hrs on the Kin Cave.I'm thinking of offering the neighbors 500$ if I can cut down a couple trees to the west of my patch.First I will just ask,then if they say no I will offer the cash.lol Funny I was just standing out there yesterday telling a friend this,as the caves went into the shade at 5:30.The melon cave was shade at 5:00.I placed them with the sun in mind last spring.The 1161 is getting the most sun of all my stuff.I also placed the melon cave so it would wind block the kin cave.Its shorter so the sun factor did not matter.

10/2/2012 6:09:39 AM

Holton, Michigan

yes i plan on going to Montague think its the 13th my family including a pumpkin to weigh.my son does the pumpkin roll down the hill the traffic is blocked bunch of kins get free tossed down to roll to fish point long weight for a short race. are you going to bring a kin? think they used a weigh station down the road 2 years ago on a 480#the private individual brought hilo to move it.don't no what will be there this year i would like to see your giant. there will be guys there to help lift me being 1 they do have a carrier also unless you have some machinery

10/2/2012 7:27:29 PM

Holton, Michigan

i have only checked hours in the summer so 7ish hrs at the most probably less now, but i have had more sun this year than past do to weather. i think this is a big part of my personal best

10/2/2012 7:34:36 PM

West Michigan---Hasekg39@gmail.com

Yes I'm going to bring them but I don't have any machinery at my disposal but the guy who runs it stopped by and said that he really wants to see them there so I'll bring them and see what happens......I hope my big one hits the 880lbs that it's estimated at but for my first year I'm happy no matter what (heck I just hope I can find a way to get there weight(I'm going to buy my own scale next year))

I guess I'll see ya there

10/2/2012 8:57:11 PM