MarkRainbolt
Songster
Well as the saying goes there is always next year. Congratulations on the 55 and 75 pounder’s!!! You did a lot better than me.
Mark
Mark
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It was a bad year, too cold at night for good growth. I normally get 90 lb.+ pumpkins from the Big Moose. Everything seemed to be running about a month behind.Well as the saying goes there is always next year. Congratulations on the 55 and 75 pounder’s!!! You did a lot better than me.
Mark
They say the Dill's Giant are really good cooking pumpkins. The Big Moose are by far the sweetest pumpkins that I have grown. I have made excellent pumpkin pies from them along with my pumpkin muffins. I have so much frozen pumpkin puree in the freezer that I won't bother making any this year.Just out of curiosity what do you do with the big pumpkins? I usually just feed the chickens and deer my pumpkins.
Mark
$150 for 5 seeds is outrageous!Found this today which points out how important the source of the seeds is.
" Atlantic Giant seeds from seed companies typically have genetic ceilings at about 300lbs."
The outfit making this claim sells seeds from actual monster sized pumpkins with the top one being $150 for 5 seeds from 2000 lb. pumpkins.
Is cheap compared to what some of the others want for one or two seeds. At the top of this list is one seed for $199.00.$150 for 5 seeds is outrageous!
Saving seeds from an F1 hybrid gives you seeds that you have no idea what they will produce. Saving seeds from an open pollinated non hybrid variety works well if you keep the source separated to prevent hybridization.I've read by continuing to save seed you can end up with a land race that has acclimated to your soil and growing conditions. I believe this too. Might be something for you to experiment with pumpkins.
I save seeds from store bought seedless watermelons. It is not uncommon to find a couple of seeds from each melon. In my experience they typically produce a nice size, short season watermelon that is ripe by the first week of September here in my short growing season. Saving their seeds produces all kinds of short season watermelons that can range from pink to red and round to oval.I don't grow huge watermelons anymore. Was fun but takes up a lot of space and they are heavy! I now just grow a few Sugar Babies or Crimson Sweet.
Yes, I done this with a few hybrid tomatoes and some flowers. Never know what you will get but I got some really nice surprises too. If you continue they seem to vary even more.Saving seeds from an F1 hybrid gives you seeds that you have no idea what they will produce.