41.5

After a good blast of hot weather this last week the pumpkin measures 118 inches = 41.5 pounds. We've upped the water each also and I'm still brewing compost tea and giving them tea x2 each week and spraying the leaves with kelp extract and Alaska Fish Fertilizer. The warmer weather and a good dose of water has this plant jumping out of the ground. I love for it to stay warm. It seems like we're getting a lot of sucker vines - all those little pumpkins have to be picked off because they rob pumpkin big of nutriments. It's a good start after a pretty crappy spring of cool weather=reminder heat coils next year.

Growing fruit

We got some fruit growing on these vines, despite the cool weather of June and early August.The 866 Biss has a great punkn on it - I'm happy with it's growth- you just never know, it could all end tomorrow. Big time growers would scoff at my plant.I'll be watering alot over the next week as the temp will be in the 90's. We should be seeing some real growth. I have tree plants at my house; my kids have two small plants and I have three plants at a friends house a busy schedule no less! Whew!