Water

These Mutha's need water and lots of it!. When they're really packin' it on at mid season they can gain more than 30 lbs in a day and most of it's water. The cleaner and more pure the water the better off you are er- well the pumpkin is better off. They grow fast on those days but you can't actually see them grow. I'm giving my plants a ton of organics right now to develop the root system to enable the uptake of nutriments-tea, kelp, fish fertilizer and shreaded pages from the novel "Myst". This week with the good weather I've been burying a lot of vines.

Growing the Vine

The vine on The 866 Biss is out 12 feet from the stump, maybe a shade more. I pulled the 1136 Sherwood the other day because I needed the room in the patch. Compost tea has been my friend and I think aided the growth during a very chilly month of June. The 845 Larue has just jumped out of the grond the last week adding 3.5 ft to its vine length-very impressive!

Heat

It's been 90+ the last couple of days. I buried the vines on the 890 Biss and put Myco on the lateral vines. I 've been feeding a mixture of Seaweed Extract and Alaska Fish Fert spraying it foliarly with a 2 gallon weed sprayer. It is amazing how the plants respond to the spray treatments. After application (at the days beginning or end) the leaves take on such a deep green color and they stand up and look quite healthy.The 845 Larue is making up for lost time - it's rocking across the patch making almost a foot in the last day- BUT REMEMBER it's not the size of the vine it's the weight of the Pumpkin. And, that's all that matter's ! Go big or go home! Get large or get on the Barge!