@@nicksbigpumpkin8050 ahhh awesome that would be neat. I do not grow any pumpkins, I wish. Maybe someday. But I find great joy watching pumpkin growing videos so thank you for your service sir.
He lives 15 mins away from me how lucky did I get lol. Thats awesome that you grow for a living. Do you have your own greenhouse or do you grow inside?
Thanks for another great garden video and looks like your garden is doing great even with all the heat we’re having you’ve done a great job on your garden. Thanks so much for giving us so much inspiration and hope.
So glad you’re back on track man! Please please please keep these videos coming. They’re very fun to watch and I am actually learning a lot and having some things I knew confirmed by you! My first year growing (Big Max) is going well so far and now watching you is motivating me to grow a giant next year! Thank you for the content man, seriously.
Nice man thank you very much for the kind words. If you haven’t already I would go to a local garden center and get a combination pesticide/fungicide cause right around now is when pumpkin diseases appear. If you start applying it now you should have smooth sailing.
@@nicksbigpumpkin8050 that’s a great point. I have sprayed for beetles and diseases once already. Once in a while I do spot some cucumber beetles though even still. One a week at most. Not sure what more I can do about that. Don’t want to make a wrong move now that I have such good growth.
LOOOOL thank you man. You should check out northeast giant pumpkins, his vids on here and on tiktok get millions of views and he's one of the best growers in the world.
Brother if you saw a grub you need to get some imiticloprid asap!! If not your going to have bug issues. Imiticloprid is systemic and will keep your plant sade from most bugs and or grubs!! Merit is what most giant growers use.
the fan is also for transpiration. you won't see strong growth if the plants cannot properly move nutrients and water through them from the roots to the leaves too hot for lion's mane to fruit, the soil you have the pumpkins in is FULL of trichoderma, that mushroom bag never stood a chance once you cut it open. Try again, hydroponically this time. more efficient nutrient delivery, less chance of fungus gnats, soil holds onto water waaay too long in a grow tent, if you sterilize the grow tent beforehand and regularly wash things you can totally fruit oyster mushrooms in there.
Bro! 1. Check the specifications and radiation characteristics for this LED board. It should hang way lower (40-50cm above canopy) to match the spectrum of these diods. 2. This PPFD app isnt very accurate. Use professional meter and higher PPFD levels (up to 800) to start the photosynthetic engine! 3. Heating mats: You are heating up the root system! Water tents to evaporate upwards in the substrate, while the plant (leaves) itself should be the evaporation hot spot. Natural substrates usually have a cooling effect which helps the plant taking up nutrient and stay cool on hot summer days. Heating up water changes pH-levels! So dissolved nutrients can't be released to the roots completely at some point. 4. Overwatering a stressed root system is.. anyways... nice try
nitrogen burn is like going through a fever with the immune system of the plant overworking itself, but yeah flushing out the soil is probably the worst mistake, plant burn can bounce back easily if you control its indoor environment, and usually it will grow faster when it does
If you ever want to try that "symbiosis" with mushrooms and plants again I can probably send you some grain spawn, liquid culture, or a fruiting block. I kinda dabble in mycology and have started up my grows again because I like eating fresh mushrooms and they're expensive as hell. I think that lions mane wasn't the best choice for the grow room because it really likes cooler areas. An oyster mushroom would be a better choice because they're aggressive growers and seem to get contaminated less often than lions mane.
So my guess is that the fertilizer you added was a bit much especially being that you added all the good fungi and bacteria. The happy frog alone would have been perfect with the biology as well. I use happy frog with biology and my plants are now 13ft long and growing like crazy!! Let me know if you wanna chat. I'm all about helping poeple wrap their heads around growing!!
Ez way have a pet mold n no need spent money: 1) box and wood chopsticks. 2) cut the chopsticks and put in the box (make sure it is glued) 3) add water to the chopsticks (in some day the mold will grow) Enjoy!
I'll be following your pumpkin endeavors closely, you've got damned good video quality btw. I put in grapes, fruit trees, raspberries and gooseberries on my property this year. I'll also be growing a few pumpkins too, along with the classic veggies. So far the garlic is doing the best. Good luck with your pumpkins, man.
I use a chapin hydrofeed injector and mix a 32oz concentration of fertilizer, it’s hooked to the spigot on side of the house with a melnor timer set to go off at four customized times per day, thru melnor adjustable spike sprinklers. It’s cheap but reliable. I only have room to grow one per year bout 700sqft. 1275 pb, I think you can smash that!!! Good luck and grow big!
Maybe use a cover crop of clover, that way all the nutrients stay in the soil doesn't get blown away or baked by the Sun. And bonus points if you choose to cut the cover back far enough that it dies you get all the nitrogen that is stored in the nodules of the roots. And possibly for next year pumpkin, you would start your own compost pile. I find the municipal compost to be made of mostly wood. At least in my area. So I feel like it's only half as good as it could be. Personally I get a truckload of the stuff once a year during the free compost events, take that compost and use it as the Browns or carbon source for my compost pile. That way all my nitrogen food scraps can have a balance of carbon to compost into. That way everything is rich in bug and Worm poop. My first giant pumpkin was last year, it was about 60 lb. Because one Vine snuck off behind a bush next to a fence and had two other 50 lb pumpkin just nursing on it. So I got about 150 lb potential out of impulse purchase of seeds. Hopefully this year I can get one Giant one.
Man, I can’t tell you how happy I am that you’re making a series this year again. You came back after a small defeat last year which is something you should totally be proud of! I applaud you for that huge. This will be my first year I attempt growing pumpkins, just big max, nothing crazy but your tips and knowledge I think is going to help me a lot! Thanks again from a fellow New Englander! Adam, from western MA!
Thank you so much! One of the best growers in the country actually lives in western Mass. He goes by Northeast Giant Pumpkins on RU-vid. Check out his longer videos if you want to see a real pro do it.
@@nicksbigpumpkin8050 No kidding? That’s awesome! Now I’ll have two local pumpkin channels to follow! Great stuff Nick, please keep it up. For what it’s worth from an newbie, I really enjoy your videos and can’t wait to see more!
@@stoneyardgriddle9203 Awesome! I wanted my videos to be enjoyable for "Newbies" (I'm still a newbie) so the fact that your saying that is great. Out of curiosity, how much space do you have dedicated to pumpkins?
