farmerfischer
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I'm curious, has anyone ever have a pumpkin do this the day after heavy watering.
They're Atlantic giant's well their supposed to be lol
They're Atlantic giant's well their supposed to be lol
first-time pumpkin grower ,, help?
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Olive Drab Green
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..So you're growing wooden pumpkins?
farmerfischer
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It's been insanely dry thus year so I put the sprinkler on my pumpkins for a couple hours. The next day one of the better pumpkins popped
farmerfischer
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Wooden pumpkins?
farmerfischer
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Errr!! I get it.
farmerfischer
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Funny.. Kinda..
Olive Drab Green
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They look like little carved blocks of wood.
farmerfischer
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Nope! Not wood. I'm also growing the ghost pumpkin. Technically it's a white squash but sold as a white pumpkin
farmerfischer
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I've read over fertilizing can cause pumpkins to implode or pop but I'm not using nutes on them so I'm assuming it do to be over watered. Just asking for some insite from seasoned pumpkin growers
iHearAll
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id advise you to have a garden razor on hand. not cuz of your crazy pumpkin explosion. but check the ENTIRE vine for stem burrowers. theyll cause your vine to die fairly quick and then results in a small pumpkin.
you cut along the vine and pry open lengthwise to find the worm an pull it out. youv probably read this kinda thing before but i gotta throw it out there just in case!
yea iv exploded ny share of cucumbers and watermelons. you gotta just mulch heavily and do frequent waterings. i like 15 per bed. so a garden of 4 beds would b an hour of sprinkler time. seems to work.
this in reference to a 3'×(15'-20') bed there abouts
you cut along the vine and pry open lengthwise to find the worm an pull it out. youv probably read this kinda thing before but i gotta throw it out there just in case!
yea iv exploded ny share of cucumbers and watermelons. you gotta just mulch heavily and do frequent waterings. i like 15 per bed. so a garden of 4 beds would b an hour of sprinkler time. seems to work.
this in reference to a 3'×(15'-20') bed there abouts
thumper60
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to much water to fast after being very dry, pumpkins like steady water all the time
iHearAll
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15minutes i meant. way late and nobody cares probabky but i end up posting alot of bs from typos and not paying attention haha. not 15plants thatd be absurde. maybe 5 plants per 15' length and 7 per 20' but yea that doeant have much to do with anything.
ganga gurl420
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Yup agreed. It's from too much water too fast