My takeaway from the tour is I need to feed the plant more. I have been doing about half the potassium that the grower with the pumpkin doing 60lbs per day has been doing. I've always struggled with how much to feed the plants. My new strategy is the eyeball test. Spoon feed them high amounts until something seems a little off and then start backing off. I know a lot of growers who do testing of the fertilizer solution until it gets tot he right PPM. That isn't a bad strategy, but with the eyeball test you can take the plant right up to the edge of what it can optimally handle and then leave it there. You don't necessarily get that with PPM testing.
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Hello, Thank you, from blog (Google search) I have finally figured out what is growing in my garden. After years of planting all kinds of melons, cantaloupe, watermelon, pumpkins and only harvesting 1 pumpkin and 1 watermelon with the birds usually plucking the seedlings before the flowers even grew, I threw all the seeds from all the packets in my garden. Only the pumpkins seemed to germinate, survive as seedlings, and then grow and grow and grow, and then produce lots of flowers and then strange yellow melons. I had NEVER had a yellow tiny pumpkin melon. Time to google, which told me I had yellow squash, picked, tasted, not quite right. Let grow bigger, maybe one of those cantaloupes made it and was really a strange honeydew/cantaloupe...picked at cantaloupe size, not quite right as far as blossom and stem ends...haven't opened it yet BUT, back to Googling and low and behold, I found your blog and, yes, I did plant a "Giant" pumpkin whose fruits are now three weeks old and look like they has quite a bit of growing left to do. I have two of them. I have no idea how many plants as the vines have taken over the garden area. Lots of green so I don't mind.
I do have a question, should I water with a bit of Miracle Grow or just let them be?
Thank you!
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