Grow a Giant Pumpkin - Stump and Stem maintenance 

I just found you! Incredibly helpful video! I am starting super late and in the back of my suburban yard just for family fun… but I do love to garden! I’ll be happy with 100 pounds! It’s awesome listening to you!!

Lol I use the same scissors for the same reason in our gardening. Thanks for the advice. First year with a real giant pumpkin. I’m in Miami Manitoba. I had one seed out of 8 that survived to outside planting. Only three made it through germination. I should have scarified more. Two plants I lost to a cold snap in our small greenhouse. The the third was a late comer and only had one leaf come out and was negligent and forgotten about. I then nursed “Nemo” to become a monster treated like a tomato plant planter and all just bigger pots more transplants. I hope to grow something big this. Right as of July 25 grapefruit size. With three tennis ball sized pumpkins. The ideal one is in a good location for access. I found a stressed plant will Come back stronger. I appreciate the vids helps me know how to handle our monsters here. My daughter named the pumpkin plant nebo after our hill here. Thanks again.

Best info in the game!

2nd year grower that miserably failed in year 1....learning a ton from you! Thanks!

Great informative video Chad. First year giant pumpkin grower and appreciate your shared experiences that has helped me get off to a good start this year. Crossing my fingers it will continue.

Just started this year. I built 3 standing garden boxes and put pumpkins in 2 of them. They started growing great tons of flowers but none with pumpkins on them. Flowers are dying off and the leaves are also. They was in the shade so i moved them into the sun.still no improvements.

That 1676 is a beauty.

Yet another awesome video Chad !

And thanks for all the info !

Great video chad

Awesome content again Chad! I had to cut the secondary at the punpkin to make more room for it and the main... but I see you somehow snaked-it up and around and out the other side? Do you ever recommend cutting that secondary off? Thanks!! (BTW, I am at 23DAP on the 2021 Chad New seed... so far so good!!)

I can't see the stem of my pumpkin. Should I turn it? Leave it? How do I check it?

Go Niners!

Man i had a late start and live in a higher elevation, but my pumpkin is going strong. Hope it hits a couple hundred pounds before season ends. And wow 30lbs per day is just fast in my mind. Is covering the pumpkin necessary and why?

With your cut off the main method, do you let the plant grow behind the pumpkin all season or do you dead head it as the season goes? I have one at day 10 I am trying to decide which method is better. Thanks.

Do you end up going back and cutting the leafstalks all the way down to the vine? If I cut them part way up like you did in the video, mine fill up with water and rot. I know you are in a greenhouse and use drip irrigation, but thought maybe your misters would fill them with water.

If you were to grow two pumpkins per plant would they even grow to half the size of one of these individually grown pumpkins?

Question: My pumpkin fruited a female bud and after a week or so of growth, it became mushy and very soft skinned, like touching a water balloon. It tore, so I had to cut it off. Why might this happen? Solutions? I am a backyard gardener, growing Cherokee Tan pumpkins in Oregon.

Do you need a secondary vain attached to your main pumping vain ?

3rd year grower and still haven't made it past a 1000 lbs ..... and who ever said It was easy growing pumpkins has never grown a giant.

What do you feed to this girls!