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Giant pumpkin contest!!

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It's difficult to find the right words to express how I feel when I look at that ridiculously oversized pumpkin. "Impressive" just doesn't cut it.

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You should stand next to it, photos don't do it justice.

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Buy me a return ticket to Brisbane? :P

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Laterals going off now, and busy plucking out some of the females to get one further out on the vine

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Nice one WB I really like the look of the one on the right, those variegated patches seem to be a good thing when you see the really massive pumpkins. This one is still filling out here, I think it may go 300kg, I think it will rot underneath though as I did not put enough sand down its grown all funny looks like it will crush the stem. I will just keep watering the bugger and see what it ends up at. I dunno how I am going to weigh it. They are going to put it on display at the pub where I work so that pretty cool. Then as long as its not rotten I'm going to try and turn it into a boat for Australia day celebrations.

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Well here are mine :/ not really doing much... heaps of flowers but i think they might be all male?

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And a double header!!

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yeah theyre male, the females have little pumpkins at the bottom.

They always grow males before they start females

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Cool should I pull em all off or are they ok to leave on

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Don't pull them off until you have a female flower to pollinate with them. They won't do any harm or divert the energy away from the females.

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Starting to form ribs and getting orange, skins still soft and only a tiny little bit of netting appearing in the skin where the shade clothe has rubbed, I don't know how much more its got in it but maybe another fortnight of decent growth?

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Grin. I'm just about to pollinate my first flower this week!

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sexy legs stillman!

Who wears short shorts... stillman wears short shorts!

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That pumpkin looks more like a throne than a boat ?! . All hail Skillman. :P

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I need to work on my tan lol. Amazon it looks like a bean bag, Ideal photo oportunity coming once its off the vine.

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You could make a boat just use two 20 liter drums as ballasts . Or you could ferment it and make some pumpshine

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I got given a shit load of good seed by the Victorian record holder. If anyone is keen just pm me I'll send you some. Giving them away to anyone keen to have a go at growing the beasts.

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Gob smacked! That's unreal! Do you mind if I put my hand up for some?! That's a big pumpkin :)

Edit- I don't have the space to grow more then just one, so I will forward them onto my local gardeners.

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pm me your postal address and I will send some out.

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The Vic record holder is a top bloke and true gentleman

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I wish I could see that pumpkin in person.

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if it holds together we are going to take it to work in the beer garden for all the kids to jump on.. until one goes through it lol. Should be amusing..

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My mate Phillip who gave me the seeds.. good movie too.
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