Giant Pumpkin 795 Fossum 2021

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Pumpkin name: 795 Fossum 2021 Rank: 15435 Pumpkin Damaged? No
Year Grown: 2021...... Seed: 1412 Wallace 2020...... Pollinator: 1412 Wallace 2020
OTT: 311.00...... Weight: 795.00...... Estimated Weight: 795.00...... Percent Change in Weight: 15.00
Weighed At: Great White North Pumpkin Fair and Weigh-off
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Variety: Atlantic Dill Square Footage Grown In:
Germinated On: ...... Set In Garden On: ......
Pollinated On: ...... Date Harvested: 09/24/2021 Days Old 0
Number On Plant: ...... Growth Rate: Steady.......
Shape: ....... Stem Length: ....... Stem Thickness: ...... Uniform Shape: ......
Grew larger than 1500 :0
Grew larger than 1000: 0
Grew larger than 500: 0
Pumpkin Rank:15435
Total Pollinated: 0
Total Planted: 0
Grew Damaged: 0

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This plant was absolutely amazing! Extremely vigorous (filling all 1200 square feet of my garden) very large healthy deep green leaves, thick main and side vines, all you ever want in a plant. However, this pumpkin grew ridiculously slow. For the majority of its life it never put on more than 5 pounds a day (when I normally like to hit 40 pounds a day). I was fertilizing every day at low doses at proper pH, burying all the vines top and bottom adding mycorrhizal fungi, nitrogen fixing bacteria, powdered molasses to feed the microbes, and even some basic granular fertilizer to really maximize the potential of the pumpkin. The pumpkin was also very slanted growing way over its blossom end. What’s even stranger is that it started cantalouping at DAP 30 despite shading it profusely which is definitely not normal. All this points to the fact that I think I just got a mutated bad seed. However, there have been several other growers who have had much more success with the 1412, so I think my instance was an anomaly so because of that I still think the 1412 has great capability but I think because it was harvested before it was fully matured only (45 days old) that the seeds inside it did not have time to fully develop and that’s why there is probably a greater percentage of mutated bad seeds amongst some great seeds. I just was unlucky to grow one of the bad ones.