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Sunday, May 25, 2025
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Plant growth speed and final pumpkin size are not 100% correlated. It is necessary to have a somewhat large plant, but I was thinking about this... and take a cherry tree as an example. You can have a huge tree but still get smallish cherries... You can have a tremendously fast growing cherry tree and still get smallish cherries. I know this! Most home orchardists know this. Eventually it switches from a salad growing competition to an actual fruit growing competition. The salad part is interesting, but a big fruit is the ultimate goal, right? For me, things become even more interesting when I realize that (as in the example of the cherry tree) the size of the tree and the size of the fruit do not correlate 1:1. If you do visit a "modern" cherry orchard take notes... How their trees look vs a wild tree. They are growing for size of fruit their trees do not look the same as wild trees. They have everything optimized for fruit size.
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