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Giant Pumpkin

NLG1
18 years ago

Has anyone tried growing a giant pumkin hydroponically and been successful?

Comments (7)

  • adrianag
    18 years ago

    I would love to somebody try pumpikins AND tomatoes. I don't see why they wouldn't beat the pants off of conventionally grown ones as long as you follow the other tricks of growing large vegetables, such as removing all but 2 or 3 fruits off a tomato plant, etc...

  • brendan_of_bonsai
    18 years ago

    Giant pumkind have giant root systems, they burry the vines on both sides of the fruit and some even deprive the seedlings of light to get em spindly then burry them up to there cotoledons. try it, and keep the rest of us informed.

  • Dan Klinge
    14 years ago

    I am growing some. The plant is almost three feet long. The leaves are large. But, they're gradually yellowing. Any ideas??

    PH looks good, water is a medium drip....maybe a gallon or two an hour. What is it??

  • Karen Pease
    14 years ago

    Yellow leaves can indicate a lot of things. Root rot is one possibility. How do your roots look?

  • freemangreens
    14 years ago

    :egnilk66:
    Yellow leaves 'usually' mean either too little light or too much water. I'd increase the light and back off on the water.
    A gallon or two an hour may be fine for several plants (or a swimming pool!) but if it's just one plant, that's probably your problem.
    As long as there are several other strong, green leaves, hack off the yellow ones as they'll die anyway. Your plant will be stronger.
    What is your growing medium?

  • micah_cnc
    14 years ago

    It's time to start thinking on pumpkins. I've considered a 5 gallon bucket hydro DWC system. Seems to be working so far for my DWC tomato plant. Any comments on 5 gallons- maybe need more than 5? I envision a ramp from the bucket down to ground level. Or I could bury the bucket part way. I'm not trying to enter a contest. Hopefully grow 3 or 4 'kins about 10-20 lbs to share with my friends.

    Cheers!

  • homehydro
    13 years ago

    Scott,
    From what I saw, the product on your website is not FREE as you said. The shipping said it was free, but your charging $5 for the Trial Pack (+tax, there wouldn't be any tax on a free item either). That's what I would consider false advertising, and that's not a good impression. Certainly makes me feel like the post was just a ploy to post a link for a misleading statement, and the word "FREE" was just thrown in to get them to click on the link and view the product (bad ethics).