We were fortunate to win at Half Moon Bay , California this yr . The competition was vivid with 80 entries , 10 of which were over 1,000 pounds . The weigh - off is always on Columbus Day . The succeeder appease until the play along weekend to enter in the HMBPumpkin Festival .
Over 250,000 people descend on the small coastal community for the parade , music , food and fun . A plasterer’s float for the parade was designed with a California beach stem , consummate with dune buggy , surfboard and a large sand sand dune .
Our 1,229 - pound pumpkin was atop the mound of white sand and I rode through the street of HMB in a beach chairperson sitting mightily next to the pumpkin . Also , the winner and his family are treated to a 2 - night halt at the Ritz - Carlton Hotel in HMB . The hotel is beleaguer by an owing golf class and has spectacular sea views . It is an experience in itself ! ! Also in the video are visits to many top Northwestgrowers autumn pumpkin patches .
It was really my fifth or 6th best pumpkin during early and mid - time of year . Everything grow like gangbusters this class and at one stop I had 8pumpkins on raceway to reach 1,000 poundsor more . 5 days of vivid rainwater in mid - August put many of the prospects on growth curves that were not sustainable if the autumn pumpkin had any sort of morphological flaw . Sag lines , blossom splits , and prow rent took their bell .
After the first month from yield set , my good prospect was on the 846 Calai , and was over 100 pound larger than my best ever at 30 sidereal day , regrettably , it blossom end schism . Mypumpkin on the 1,260 Weir then became the leading competition and reached an estimated 911 poundsat 45 days .
The 1,260 was on such a growth curve that if I bestow just the intermediate entire inches mypumpkins usually growafter 45 days , it was headed to over 1,500 British pound . Alas , after some gravid rains it stem split into the cavity on August 12th .
On August 28th , I had one on the Bobier 723 that gauge at 1,184 punt and was still going over 21 - punt per day when it prime end rip . I matter it on a certifiedscale on September 2nd at 1,194 hammering . I had another one at 1,127 pounds that developed a pinhole at a sag - line / costa user interface that was consider as “ un - official only ” at the Puyallup Fair on September 10th . Without the big August rains that we hardly ever get , I guess several more of these prospects would have made it through the season .
After preparing the soil in the springtime with a light practical software of commercial fertilizer , I used our Soluble Seaweed , Soluble fish and the Biomin Calcium only through the time of year . I also used the Bio - Endo Plus ( endomycorrizal fungi ) in thepotting soil , in the planting yap and at each foliage axil on at least the main vine of each plant .
exceptional SEED DISTRIBUTION
This year , while the supply last , we will admit free with each 2004 telecasting a seeded player from my personal secure 1,229 # , plus two more bundle of 3 source each from our othergiant pumpkins . This offer includes at least 7 world - classseeds free , a value that probably exceed the monetary value of the video .
list of the seeds :
HOLLAND ’S LAND O’GIANTS 2004 SEED STOCK
Thepumpkins weighedover the charts . I think using foliar atomizer of soluble seaweed gunpowder and smooth calcium help “ make ‘ em profound ” .
1,229 # : 380”(805 Pukos X 919 Holland ) A new personal good and new record for Half Moon Bay . The clear orangish yield run 9.6 % overweight .
1,194#:387”(723Bobier X 1,260 Weir ) this fruit was orange and 42 ” grandiloquent . flush - split up on 8/28 , weighed on a certified scale on 9/2 , was still growing over 21 # a day . 10 # over the chart .
1,127 # : 364.5”(1,097 Beachy X 805 Pukos ) it was white-livered - orange . Developed a tiny pinhole at a sag line / rib port on 9/10 . It was consider on a certified scale at the Puyallup Fair on the 24-hour interval of harvesting . 13.8 % heavy .
995#:361”(1,134 Holland X 1,260 Weir ) this was a very long , across-the-board yield with a nice deep orange colour . Won 2 nd berth at Central Market . 3.4 % heavy .
954#-Est . : 360”(919 Holland X 1,134 Holland ) This pumpkin was a longsighted and wide of the mark orange pumpkin that split on a sag line on 8/21 .
915#-Est . : 355”(966 Holland X 1,134 Holland ) High , blocky , yellow - orange yield that developed a modest rent on 8/25 after 5 days of heavy pelting .
791#:333.5”(844 Wycoff X 919 Holland ) It was harvest betimes for the Puyallup Fair . It was a foresightful , and light - coloured Cucurbita pepo . It was 4 % heavy on the chart .
750 # : 321.5”(1,134 Holland X 805 Pukos ) A nice , problem - freepumpkin that grew on the same plantas the 995 . It was foresightful and orange and consider 10 % heavy .
717#-Est.:327”(919 Holland X 805 Pukos ) this was a gamy bicycle shaped orange Cucurbita pepo that separate on 8/27 after the heavy rain .
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