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  7. Posted

    I'm turning the pumpkin into soup and scones at work for OZHarvest Brisbane. Its on display at my work at the moment, we are running a comp to guess how many seeds to raise money for our local PCYC community gardens. So going to good use which makes me happy about putting so much effort into the big useless orange thing lol.

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    I work in hospitality, its high pressure low skilled industry so a lot of the time someone not necessarily up to the task is left to deal with a bad situation.. the general public are unlikable at best, tempers fray and people get nasty this has a knock on effect on staff hierarchy. I just roll along these days otherwise you won't sleep at night or you might have a stroke.

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    That's going to grow big pumpkins its starting to get the monster look. You got the space so let it go wild. I gave my boss those squash seeds you gave me, he has a 200kg plus monster on, I reckon it will go 350 plus ...If he doesn't split it from overwatering (pumping water straight from a creek 200 litres a day) I'll get some seeds back and send you some WB.

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  17. Posted

    60 days set the vine has pretty much given up. I had powdery mildew and I trimmed the vine too hard so limited the pumpkins potential. I think its around 250 to 270 kg. It just didn't go bang like they are supposed to in the last 15 days.

    My daughter who planted the seed and pollinated the flower in her throne.

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    17th of December. Some stopped growing and headed. 2 are still growing well. One looks like it might hit 4 metres. I dunno how I am going to save seeds from the birds. Not bad for a fist go, next year I will build a trellis I can walk on and go hard I think, with foliar sprays etc. I want the Australian record...lol

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  22. Posted · Edited by Stillman

    I found a product at Big W today for Orchids NPK of 25 8 10 for growing and another 15 8 25 for bloom. Keen to try these out as foliar sprays on the next pumpkin. Was just a powder product 500g packet 5g to 5 litres $7.50

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  23. Posted

    they will start coming in hit it with some blooming nutes as a foliar spray couple times a week Something higher in Potassium then nitrogen. I was looking at fertilisers today and I think that most things developed for Orchids would be gun for growing giant stuff. They are relatively cheap too.

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  25. Posted

    I currently don't have enough seeds to pass them around, but if I get these to germinate we can do one next year with the seeds I harvest. Pretty cool looking plants, there's a tonne massive south American varieties in the US that I would like to try. 25 foot corn...fark.

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