Pumpkin soup anyone?

[fogbat]

I have never grown a pumpkin that big, Madz.

 

[Onket]

Have you ever grown one at all? It's easier to get them massive than it is to keep them small.

 

[fogbat]

I have not

 

[Onket]

Well there you go then.

 

[fogbat]

I wish I'd never said anything now

 

[nadia]

I think it has been a very good year for pumpkins. the farmshop up the road had one that had to be carted around in a wheel barrow and they claim they did nothing special to them

 

[Onket]

We live and learn foggy.

 

[madzone]

We live and learn foggy.

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=9784995&postcount=16

 

[Onket]

See post #30.

 

[madzone]

See post #30.

I've seen it once, why would I want to see it again?

 

[Onket]

Cos it answers the post you linked to. Obviously.

 

[madzone]

Cos it answers the post you linked to. Obviously.

Keep on like this and the thread will be like an Escher drawing

 

[Onket]

Keep on like this and the thread will be like an Escher drawing

Onwards & upwards then.

 

[mr steev]

It is a reasonably big pumpkin... but pumpkins are usually are quite big iyswim (I was more taking the piss out of the expressions of shock rather than the original post tbh )

It's easier to get them massive than it is to keep them small.

Yep. When a pumpking grows it will produce lots of flowers. With a lot of care you can get everyone of those flowers to turn into a pumpkin. This is what I presume commercial growers would do, to get as much yield from each plant. However the more pumpkins the plant produces the smaller they will be.
If you grow your own it's unlikely you'd sucessfully polinate every flower, so you'll get less, but bigger fruit. If you don't really care for your plant at all, but by chance it gets polinated, the chances are you'd end up with a massive pumpkin