From

Location

Message

Date Posted

Rockland

i was thinking that a truck sized innertube would offer less resistance to a pumpkins growth .what do you all think? i have grown c- pepo pumpkins free floating in the air & they grow better(less resistance). a bonus is we can probably get A.G. pumpkins pretty .

8/17/2006 11:38:52 PM

[email protected]

Thats an interesting idea. You'd have to wait until the fruit got large enough it wouldn't just fall into the center of the tube. An air mattress with some paper mill cloth on it maybe?

8/18/2006 1:33:43 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

that is a neat idea but make sure it's a good tube. I would worry that an older inner tube may burst under the weight of a large pumpkin. that would almost certainly crack your fruit. Plus those black tubes get so hot in direct sun they might boil the insides to pumpkin stew without good shade.

8/19/2006 2:51:48 PM

Montoursville, PA

Being all snugged up in a bed of sand has a thermal effect that the pumpkin needs. At night it may warm a cool pumpkin and in hot weather it helps cool the fruit. Few other things one could put under the fruit will maintain this support.

8/19/2006 9:24:49 PM

Rockland

i think that more than one tube is needed.smaller ones inside the larger ones.sand can be a filler between tubes.

8/20/2006 10:07:11 AM