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Denver, CO

First, let me say my camera met with an unfouranute "accident" and I can not supply a picture. Sorry. However, I am wonder, I have a pumpkin which is as follows. Straight across at shoulders and straight up and down at the shoulders on the stem end. It then slants from top to bottom in an oblonged egg shape to the blossom end where at the blossom it is concave in nature. I have been measure around the oblonged circumfrance but dont know what exatcly to do. Basicaly it slopes from front to back and is about I think 375 pounds.

How do you measure these things? The parallell to the ground all the way around a widest midpoint of the pumpkin is surley wrong but what is right?

Thanks for any help

9/10/2005 6:51:59 PM

Picton,ON ([email protected])

The tables are designed for "perfectly shaped" pumpkins, if there is such a thing! I had a pumpkin like this last year and posted a similar board and got no good answers. My bean bag chair shaped pumpkin sloped back from the stem as well as down over the blossom end (it looked a lot like the 1446). You measure your circumference from blossom to stem like any other. The ss measurement should be over the highest point on the pumpkin and the back to front is strait up the back, over the top and straight down the front. Do not pull the tape back under the fruit. Mine went 19% heavy last year. I hope this helps!
John

9/11/2005 7:18:32 AM

Long Island,New York

I believe that the charts represent whatever pumpkins were in the AGGC and at wieghoffs wieghed and measured....surely they weren't all "perfect pumpkins". Plus 5 % to minus 5% are actually "to the chart" btw. So, technically if you went 5% light your "to the chart".

9/11/2005 8:09:13 AM

Denver, CO

Thanks, I guess this is one of those times when you just got to wing it and see what comes from it. At harvest I will measure it in many diffrent ways, then see which comes the closest to the real wieght. I'll update at that time

Thanks again

9/11/2005 8:14:25 PM