Atlantic Giant Pumpkins
- Thread starter pepper2.0
- Start date
YumYum
Full Access Member
I remember seeing in an old seed catalog Dills Atlantic Giant Pumpkin (to the best of my memory) and that thing was so big it looked like a halfway heated wax pumpkin where it settled in on itself from its own weight. What do you do with a pumpkin that big?
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2019
- Messages
- 3,282
- Reaction score
- 2,750
- Location
- East Texas
- Hardiness Zone
- old zone 8b/new zone 9a
- Country
x2 why would you want a hundreds of pounds pumpkin?
pepper2.0
Full Access Member
People pay a small fortune for them to use at halloween. But for me my kids love them. Also its is fun growing, there are forums like the Giant pumpkin forum were tons of members grow and show off their pumpkins much like people grow stuff and show it off on here. Also here in Canada there are lots of giant pumpkin contests every year to go to. It is a hobby that many don't understand just like many don't see the point in gardening and all the work when you can just buy the stuff at the grocery store. Some people understand, some don't lol.
YumYum
Full Access Member
Nothing wrong with growing huge pumpkins or other things for fun. You guys up north have longer daylight hours than us down here in the Summer so have at it. I doubt I could grow one like that. I'd like to see a photo of your pumpkin.
Down here we have a tomato festival and one part of it is we throw tomatoes at each other.
Down here we have a tomato festival and one part of it is we throw tomatoes at each other.
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2019
- Messages
- 3,282
- Reaction score
- 2,750
- Location
- East Texas
- Hardiness Zone
- old zone 8b/new zone 9a
- Country
I'm reminded of a recent poster who had 30 cauliflower plants in his garden maturing at the same time and asked what he would do with 30 heads of cauliflower...not that there is anything wrong with that.
I grew pumpkins once...just to prove to myself it could be done in East Texas. Mighty tasty too...but too high maintenance.
I can certainly relate to doing something just because it is challenging. I spent my entire life that way.
I grew pumpkins once...just to prove to myself it could be done in East Texas. Mighty tasty too...but too high maintenance.
I can certainly relate to doing something just because it is challenging. I spent my entire life that way.
pepper2.0
Full Access Member
It is just fun, like a fishing derby or having that 14 point buck in your crosshairs. It's a guy thing, a gal thing, a reason to hang out with people who have the same interest and do some bragging rights lol. Beer, coffee, shooting the crap with each other. It's a respect for each other, friendships, something that can be rare these days.
And, how many times have each of us taken our kids or grandkids to pick out a halloween pumpkin and they want the biggest one? well, problem solved lol.
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2019
- Messages
- 3,282
- Reaction score
- 2,750
- Location
- East Texas
- Hardiness Zone
- old zone 8b/new zone 9a
- Country
It's late and I apologize in advance, but I can't help of being reminded of this...
The indomitable human spirt...may it forever live.
The indomitable human spirt...may it forever live.
pepper2.0
Full Access Member
It's late and I apologize in advance, but I can't help of being reminded of this...
The indomitable human spirt...may it forever live.
If everyone just asked why, being sheeple and never exploring their own curiosities but only doing what others do, and did nothing for personal curiosity and interest of an outcome, simply to do something and see what happens we would be still living in the stone age.
JFK was awesome IMHO.
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2019
- Messages
- 3,282
- Reaction score
- 2,750
- Location
- East Texas
- Hardiness Zone
- old zone 8b/new zone 9a
- Country
Sometime I will tell you how that video shaped my life...but not tonight my friend.
redback
Full Access Member
I'd like to see a photograph of that please
pepper2.0
Full Access Member
That wasn't directed at anyone asking why in this thread BTW, it kind of sounded like that but I am thinking well outside the box when I say that. We can now split atoms, created AI that will soon be sentient beings, possibly opened up a new dimension by creating WILLOW.. a n AI quantum chip that preformed a benchmark computation in less then 5 minutes that would have taken any super computer 10 septillion years to do, there are things right now that peoples brains couldn't even dream like Neuralink thank is implanted in the brain and can make a person who can't move use a computer unlike anyone else just by thinking. Every aspect of what is and what can be is endless, but wouldn't exist if people kept thinking "it is pointless".
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2019
- Messages
- 3,282
- Reaction score
- 2,750
- Location
- East Texas
- Hardiness Zone
- old zone 8b/new zone 9a
- Country
Technology, as wonderful as it is, isn't a "necessary and sufficient" condition.
We landed humans on the moon and returned them safely with an onboard computer with less than a fraction of the computational power in most people's cell phone (I don't own one myself ) today.
It is very informative that with the incomparable advances in technology, we still have not returned to the moon let alone go to Mars which we absolutely could have done easily before the turn of the century...don't get me started on that one
There is no substitute for the human spirit.
We landed humans on the moon and returned them safely with an onboard computer with less than a fraction of the computational power in most people's cell phone (I don't own one myself
) today.It is very informative that with the incomparable advances in technology, we still have not returned to the moon let alone go to Mars which we absolutely could have done easily before the turn of the century...don't get me started on that one
There is no substitute for the human spirit.
pepper2.0
Full Access Member
Technology, as wonderful as it is, isn't a "necessary and sufficient" condition.
We landed humans on the moon and returned them safely with an onboard computer with less than a fraction of the computational power in most people's cell phone (I don't own one myself
It is very informative that with the incomparable advances in technology, we still have not returned to the moon let alone go to Mars which we absolutely could have done easily before the turn of the century.
There is no substitute for the human spirit.
The moon and mars is kind of boring now, seen it with the rover, nothing there. Now the focus is other dimensions and alternate universes lol