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Rhode Island

IM PRESENTLY WORKING ON A CARTOON SERIES TITLED
" WILL FLASH FOR PUMPKINS "
IT WILL REPLACE THE CARTOONS THAT ARE GETTING STALE AFTER A COUPLE YEARS

THERE WILL BE ARTICLES WRITTEN BY SOME OF OUR HOBBIES BETTER GROWERS AND ALSO, A CARTOON HERE AND THERE TO KEEP IT LIGHT

ONE LAST CARTOON IM DRAWING WILL BE ON THE SUBJECT OF "WORSE THING I EVER DID"

IF YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR "WORSE THING I EVR DID"COMMENT AND NAME PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF THE SERIES PLS REPLY BY EMAIL ( PLS BE BRIEF AND TO THE POINT )
ILL DO ALL I CAN TO GET EVERY REPLY LISTED

THANKS
PAP

10/27/2005 2:42:42 AM

hamilton,Ontario

This year while I had too plants in the garden I was cleaning up a few secondaries and after a few beers I decided the patch needed a bit more as there was an overabundance of secondaries....I CUT THE F(*^(*&^(*^( main just before the pumpkin thing it was a secondary.Never told anyone...............GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

10/27/2005 8:09:28 AM

Rhode Island

yes you did, you just told the bp.c sites social committee ( lol) about your misadventure with a pruning knife
soooooo, how about your REAL NAME to print next to your comment
dont worry we have all done worse things in the patch
dick

10/27/2005 8:17:00 AM

Rhode Island

picture yourself standing in front of the podium at a P.A. ( PUMPKINOLICS ANONYMOUS ) MEETING
" HELLO MY NAME IS ---------- AND IM A PUMPKINOLIC "
MY WORST EVER PATCH MISADVENTURE WAS ------------------
THATS THE CARTOON THAT WILL HEAD UP YOUR COMMENTS
THANKS
DICK

10/27/2005 8:30:29 AM

Cologne / Germany

I know a pumpkin grower breaking his main for fun every season...
That must be good stuff for a cartoon LOL

10/27/2005 10:24:10 AM

Cheyenne, Wyoming

In 2004, I thought rather than spray each chemical individually, to save time I would combine my plant nutrients and get the task done fast. Of course, I also put in more than the recommended amounts of each item. I put calcium, ironite and several different fertilizers in a 2 gallon can, mixed it together with some water, and let it sit overnight. The next morning, I sprayed my plants really good. It killed all the existing leaves on all my plants.

10/27/2005 10:45:12 AM

addison Il

I went in a healthy patch to get some male flowers and fell in the patch breaking everything in my patch like a patch elephant and when i got up sis was laughing becasue there where tons of males on the outside of the patch i thought going in the middle would give me unused pollen. Also grabeed a male flower to pollinate without checking it my hand was buzzing i had trapped a bee in the flowerd i dropped that and took off lol. my name is tracy michaels newbie grower and will be for may yrs

10/27/2005 11:10:31 AM

Itzetown City

Filling silicon in the split this year. My God, was that a big split, the whole cartridge was empty after doing that. 10 days later I cut the pumpkin and found all that silicon in the cavity.

10/27/2005 2:20:40 PM

Garden

Mistaken Round-Up for pesticide...check
Beer induced falling crushing secondaries....check
Rolling pumpkin on support for shade cover (rebar)...check

10/27/2005 2:36:57 PM

Pumpkintown, SC

Hello my name is Brian Fawcett and I'm a Pumpkinolic. My worst ever patch misadventure was 2 years ago. Though I'm sure it's not the worst to have ever taken place, it's the irony that hurt the most.
The misadventure took place with my best state record prospect since my previous record had been broken 2 years previously. This fruit, with the vine being terminated just beyond the stem(to eliminate bad stem stress), had been chugging along nicely averaging 18 pounds per day. Recapturing my state record was less than a week's worth of average growth away. BUT, while replacing the pumpkin's shade structure, I thought to myself as surveying the dense canopy of foliage, "wouldn't it be aweful if I accidently punched this fence post(in my hand) through the main vine."
Now I know for most of you, the suspense is over. Story told. And infact your presumptions are correct. However, here's how it actually "went down"...so to speak. After deciding the best gap in the foliage to gain entrance to the fruit was around back, I began my approach. With my fence post in one hand and my post driver in the other I progressed towards my soon to be new state record fruit. As I neared the pumpkin I realized that all the attention I had been paying to not break any leaves or step on any vines or any surface roots had left my payload(fence post and driver) flailing about unchecked. Like a long lost Wallenda brother fighting to keep my balance, I teetered there precariously. In my split-second, infinite wisdom, as the implements swung dangerously close to the fruit, I decided, "JUST DON'T HIT THE FRUIT. I mean what are really the chances of hurting the plant if I put 1 fence post down to catch my balance". Now the story has been told. One fence post down. One bright grower balanced. And one state record prospect completely severed...growth and story over.

10/27/2005 3:19:31 PM

Pumpkintown, SC

Oh, by-the-way, after the pumpkin gods brushed themselves off, after laughing themselves to the ground, they had pitty on me and pushed a back-up fruit well beyond the previous state record. Now, story over, BF <:^)>

10/27/2005 3:21:41 PM

Long Island,New York

You don't really think I'm going to tell the world do you?

10/27/2005 5:14:23 PM

Ohio

Dick, you gonna try to draw the growers faces too?,lol This ought to be good,lol

10/27/2005 5:53:21 PM

Rhode Island

i would brooks if i was physic
instead im just phy-co lol
dick

10/27/2005 6:10:44 PM

Mn

Grew a 729.5 pound pumpkin my first year out and got cocky and only ended up with a few 400 pounders the next year. Warning to all new growers who grow a big one there first year out: It may seem easy your first year but thats just because you don't realize how hard you worked. So don't get lazy the next year, work very hard. Can't wait till next year.

10/27/2005 6:14:04 PM

Omaha, NE (N41-15-42 )

Was pruning vines and wasn't paying attention and cut the main by mistake.

10/27/2005 11:03:11 PM

New York

In the worst thing you ever did category , I remember a fellow grower telling me his very embarrassing story of trying to "play a joke" on a friend of his...also a new grower with only 1 plant......
As a joke, he took a 50+ pound cull from his patch and drove to his friends house when he wasn't there. He carefully positioned the cut pumpkin in a way to make it appear it was growing on the vine. He figured his friend would get a big laugh at seeing a 50 pound pumpkin growing out of nowhere in the course of one night...which was by far the biggest on the vine at that time......

After waiting a week and not hearing anything from his friend, he decided to stop by for a visit. In the process of entering the patch, TO HIS ABSOLUTE HORROR, he noticed there were no pumpkins on the plant at all except this 50 pounder that was now getting soft. His friend went on to tell the story of how excited he was to find this wonderful pumpkin out of nowhere.....and decided to cut off every pumpkin and female on the plant so he could have a chance at "a big one". He went on to say that he was very disappointed because the "big one" had somehow stopped growing and was now getting soft. What started as a fun little joke to get a laugh from his buddy , turned into a disaster with a very disappointed friend looking at his prized fruit rotting in the patch.

10/27/2005 11:08:52 PM

New York

To the best of my knowledge, I don't believe the new grower ever found out about "the joke"....and the friend felt too embarrassed and guilty say anything. Some would ask why the new grower didn't look at the stem of his new pumpkin. I'm told he angled it down at a leaf stalk to make it appear it was intact. Being a new grower with little knowledge, he simply believed the pumpkin was attached in the front of the fruit and never bothered to examine it. The pumpkin rotted in the patch and the friend never mentioned any suspicion of finding the fruit to be cut. He went on to mention he was just "unlucky" the pumpkin stopped growing in the patch. Ouch!!

10/27/2005 11:13:35 PM

Www.extremepumpkinstore.com

omg!

10/28/2005 6:28:45 AM

Riverton, WY

"Marking my territory" (pumpkin patch) at twighlight and thinking "The plants need just a bit more nitrogen..."

10/28/2005 7:40:35 AM

Rhode Island

so alan, who did you pull this prank on ?????? huh huh
dick

10/28/2005 11:49:01 AM