you're pretty good but i do not suggest twisting the pumpkin off AT ALL. If you are wanting your pumpkin to last months then it needs a long clean cut stem to reduce the chance of rot.
Got a friend that grows Orange Bulldog here in NW Louisiana. Been growing them for 4-5 years strictly because of their virus resistance. Can’t grow any other varieties because of the viruses. They always do really well. He has them irrigated.
Great education on growing pumpkins, but you left us faithful viewers hanging on the weight at the scale house. I am planning on going to the Moultrie farm show this year and if you are going would , like to meet you..thanks again for your willingness to share both personal and farming. Your honesty about your baptism was heart felt and glad you shared. As you know a farming businnes not Godly founded is a strugle. Thanks again.
I do plan on going to the Ag Expo this year. I don’t know which date yet as I will likely be harvesting peanuts at that time. 1600 pounds and change rolled across the scales.
Man I miss growing pumpkins. Orange Bulldog always did great for me. They sure do all look different. Any luck with the varieties that I sent you? Hopefully they turn out good and you can get some seed from them. Show them in a video if they turn out ok. Here is a little info about how I use to plant them. I got an old Cole one row planter, did not have the correct plates, so made a long seed tube so I could walk beside the planter and drop a seed about every half revolution of the press wheel. Later on I planted no till pumpkins, used the same planter and hand fed it, just added a big coulter in front of the planter and some extra weight. That worked out good too. Planted rye and crimson clover the fall before the no till pumpkins. One day I plan on planting some pumpkins again. It can be done successfully in south alabama/GA.
They had near 100% germination. They are probably 3 weeks behind in maturity, but are doing great. I really appreciate the seed and I will show them in a future video.
All I did was put the seed in the ground. The Lord sent the rains and made the conditions conducive for growth. I had near total pumpkin crop failure last year…and they were all irrigated.
Have you ever tried growing miniature pumpkins? I live in west TN and I have good luck with Wee-B-Little, Jack-B-Little and Baby Boo mini pumpkins. Big Max giant pumpkins have worked well for me as well. I have to spray fungicide and insecticide for squash bugs on the giant pumpkins but they are not for consumption.
One of my 4 failed varieties from last year was a miniature. I don’t remember off the top of my head what it was, but I think it may be in one of my videos.
What weed control do u do? looks very weed free compared to my fields. Looks amazing for no herbicide, i usually spray roundup the year before then plant with weed free. As the pumpkins still are small i can run with a machine to clear the rows but then even though the pumpkins cover everything i get ton of weeds anyways ..
This was double cropped behind green beans. It was a late June planting so most weeds seeds had germinated before plowing. Got a rain after plowing then ran the field cultivator to smooth off and eliminate any new germination, followed by direct seeding at a pretty tight spacing. Canopy luckily formed quickly & suppressed weeds. I have a different variety planted down center of field on a 20’ spacing and it got completely inundated with weeds. 2-3’ in row spacing 6’ between rows quickly covered the ground.
@@PatrickShivers We do the field cultivator right before planting pre-grown pumpkin plants. So theres no weed in the beginning, But maybe the biggest problem for me is that I use a pasture field(grass for the cows) not sure what its called in english, but i guess using a field where previously wheat or some crops would have been grown would make the weed less dominant next year. There's alot of couch grass and "Chenopodium album" but still get a good crop. Weeding by hand is a bummer though
@@fllavour my 2022 pumpkins were nearly entirely ruined by grasses. The difference in 2023 was plowing. I plowed 15-18 inches deep. So the grass seeds were buried over a foot deep. Plowing brought up weed seeds that I then eliminated with cultivator after germinating. All that still didn’t work in the wide spaced portion down center of field. I think tight spacing is the key.
