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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
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Vineman
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Eugene,OR
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This afternoon I chopped up my 2154 Sperry pumpkin. It was thick! I attempted to use my Milwaukee hack saw with a 9 inch blade to cut it up. If you look at the top of the fruit you can see where I attempted to cut it apart. The blade was not long enough. Being conservative, I bet it was more than 10 percent heavy. I know that most growers believe that thickness is purely a genetic trait. I also know growers who have grown some of the biggest pumpkins ever and they insist that if a fruit grows big quickly that it will not go heavy because it doesn't have time to thicken up. This pumpkin was my fastest grower and was only 50 days old when the blossom end split occurred. My buddy, Jim Ford - who has become the king of heavy, is of the mind that soil biology likely is the true reason why one grower goes heavy and another grower goes light with the same genetics. Anyway, this fruit was thick! And that bodes well for my other fruit to do the same. RIP the 1473 Pugh dmg/est. 2154 Sperry x 2449 Wolf.
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