This guy growing a 1223 pound pumpkin and i cant even get damn grass to grow in the bald spots in my yard

@unholynun8533

3 жыл бұрын

I have grown pumpkins but they where pumpkin sized

@sharcon3891

2 жыл бұрын

I can't even get hair to grow on my bald spot.

We didn't choose the pumpkin life, the pumpkin life chose us.

I loved this! Thanks for sharing.

wow bravo on the whole grow and video!! I have a few pumpkins coming up and maybe will do this to one. Thanks for sharing!

Wait. A half ton only gets 5th place?

@trumplostlol3007

3 жыл бұрын

There are crazy people who don't just use cold frame but heat and artificial shades to grow pumpkins. Plus they use fish meal and other stuff with the entire ground tilled very deep. Not really very cost effective and certainly not good for your land.

The Transformer though

I like the Beer can or Soda one . I'm growing Pumpkins and having a blast .

What an absolute unit

that was unbelievable!

5th place? Geez. Nice use of Jetfire, btw.

Superb Sir!

Low key Pepsi advertisement.

@jacobg3321

8 жыл бұрын

+Meh Swift getting that utube money

Thanks for replying, I built 3 smaller than yours, just because here in Sicily temperatures go up quickly in April, about 55 at night and 70 during the day. So my only worry is about wind before plant developes secondary roots.

Dude, please do an AMA on reddit about this, I'd love to know the science behind what you did here.. the plant itself looked enormous, how did you do that?!

@aaronsvoboda5897

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a novice but I've done a fair bit of research. Keeping it adequately fed and watered is important, of course. But there are a few special tricks. Namely, pruning off all of the other pumpkins on the vine so that single vine can focus its energy solely on that 1 pumpkin is important. Also, burying the vine is crucial. When the vine is buried it grows roots along the entire vine, which gives this plant a MASSIVE root system.

@mattradach306

2 жыл бұрын

Having a seed with good genetics is the most important thing. The seed for this plant came from a pumpkin that was the world record holder at the time. The second most important thing is the soil. I send out samples for detailed testing at a lab. This allows me to fine tune the nutrients to a pumpkins needs. As for growing techniques There are many things we do. As Aaron mentioned we keep one pumpkin per plant and we also bury the vines to encourage rooting. We also have specific pruning techniques to keep the plant optimal. Another secret is something called Mychorizae. It is biologic additive that is actually a fungi that grows on the roots. It works symbiotically with the roots and allows the plant to take up more nutrients. Watering is very key and us done with drip irrigation. It's always tricky to find the right balance between giving it enough water and overwatering but I would say at peak growth I average about 100 gallons per day for one plant. Beyond that there is a very specific fertilizing program that shifts throughout the year to give the plant what it needs. Some growers will actually send tissue samples from the plant to be analyzed at a lab so they know exactly what to add.

@Nick-jb4xi

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattradach306 I noticed you kept the pumpkin in the shade. Does that keep it from ripening, which keeps it growing longer?

Sick!!!

great vid, ilhave to do this next yea ron my giant pumpkin

Oh my! Over 1/2 ton? Whew!

I was enjoying the video and then SUDDENLY SKYFIRE APPEARED, TRANSFORMED AND FLEW AWAY! This video made my night!

Pure beauty. Thank you.

I just started growing them , the plants are huge but no pumpkins yet

what type of mat did you use?

Now that's what I call a pumpkin patch.

what do you do with the pumpkin afterwards. it would be a lot to eat lol

Jetfire was my favourite

@mattradach306

8 жыл бұрын

+nastygollum That was fun I did that on a Saturday. I just went in and adjusted it ever half hour. It was a little tricky using string to get it look like it was flying off.

Hi! I am a teacher and my students (preschool) would like to know why did you put a container on the pumpkin plant when it grows. Also, you put sometimes a "cardboard" when the pumpkin grows. Why? Thank you in advance for taking time to answer us.

@mattradach306

7 жыл бұрын

I put the container over it early in the spring to give it a little more insulation on cold spring nights. The card board is for shade to keep the sun off of the fruit because the sun can make the skin toughen up prematurely and crack. Usually we just put a sheet over the pumpkin to keep the sun off but since I was doing a time lapse and didn't want the pumpkin covered, I had to get creative with the shading.

Oh. My. Gourd.

Great video

Nice work!

I love the transformer 😂

Hi man, how big was your cold frame and what was the temperature you had outside?

@mattradach306

9 жыл бұрын

The main part of the cold frame is about 12 feet wide x 8 feet long. And then there is another section off the end of it that is about 6' wide x 4' long. I am on an Island an hour north of Seattle so its a pretty cool climate. Temps in April and May are usually in the upper 40's to low 50's at night and upper 50's to low 60's in the day. The cold frame keeps it about 10 degrees warmer at night and it can get very warm in the day depending on how much you vent it. I also use a soil heating cable with a thermostat that keeps the ground in about a 6' circle around the base of the plant at 72 degrees.

@mattradach306

9 жыл бұрын

matt radach Here is a pic of my cold frame. bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=234611

This is cool, keep doing it

Of course with the music 😆

So, with all the cold frame, your pumpkin is about 1 month and 14 days ahead of mine. So, my pumpkin shouldn't be too small this year. This is good enough for my own consumption for pumpkin meat and seeds for microgreens. And I have 3 pumpkin plants growing pretty ok. LOL

5th place? that thing was huge!

Did u eat it how do u move it

So we just gon ignore da robot flyin away?🤣

I always thougth fruits were photo-shopped.

Gimme that Veritech, the pumpkin was cool too

BRAVO....BRAVO!!! 🙆🎃WTH?!?!....One day, will I be that big Papa? 😨

Gordgeous

Will will will what have we here

Класс!

Where do you buy your seeds

@mattradach306

9 жыл бұрын

I get my seeds directly from growers via the Message boards on bigpumpkins.com This one came from Ron Wallace in Rhode Island and was out of the 2012 World record Pumpkin which was the first pumpkin weighed over 2000 pounds.

I have these but they are not done yet

What kind of nutrients did you fed it with?

@mattradach306

8 жыл бұрын

Alaska 5-1-1 Fish Fertilizer, Nutri Aid 0-52-34 blossom Booster and Fruit finisher, Maxicrop Liquid Seaweed, 1-1-17 Soluble Seaweed powder, Biomin Calcium powder, jungle Juice Micro Nutrient fertilizer and extreme gardens Cal Carb.

@MrPornBorn

8 жыл бұрын

Did you followed the label dosage, or you added till you saw the tips of the leaves with excess nutrients? How did you controlled the amounts you wanted to add?

@Nathan-lt6bw

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattradach306 pretty expensive just to grow a huge one.

How much space did that plant had..? Doesnt look so much..?!

@mattradach306

2 жыл бұрын

This was a total of about 250 square feet for the plant. That is very small for giant pumpkins. Usually they are grown in between 600 and 1000 square feet.

Jetfire / Veritech Valkyrie

I’ve been growing giant pumpkins

what song is this? sounds familiar

@SPLINT20

8 жыл бұрын

+domvanchub218 Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt : Morning Mood

@blackhawkwxfan

8 жыл бұрын

+domvanchub218 I'd like to know too.

How do you do the time lapse?

@mattradach306

7 жыл бұрын

I bought a waterproof camera with a built in timer. You can set it to take photos at whatever intervals you want. It also comes with software which turns the stills into a video.

@austinbollinger1259

6 жыл бұрын

What brand of camera did you use? Thanks!

great!

Did it taste good at least?

@vincenzatumminello2035

4 жыл бұрын

Why do you want to test some think which is against nature?!?

Hi Matt, Did you see my previous comment?

Isn't that Phantom of the Opera?

Love the robotech cameo!

where u get seeds?

@mattradach306

8 жыл бұрын

+omar pasha Big Pumpkins . com

Are they good for eating?

I see now lol at the end

Is the can of pepsi for scale?

@mattradach306

8 жыл бұрын

+solarpoweredtoaster Yes

No comments for over a year? Lemmie fix that

This Pumpkin is sponsored by Pepsi.

Wow, did the World record breaking seed made you the 5th place winner?

@mattradach306

7 жыл бұрын

I am not in the ideal climate for Giant pumpkins and I am not at the level of elite growers as far as budget and skill.

whats in your soil mix man?

@geraldl5221

8 жыл бұрын

+canaan .banana Crack

@mattradach306

8 жыл бұрын

+canaan .banana The fall before this, I dug up all of the top soil in this area. I then got 2 yards of dairy manure and two yards of compost. then I laid everything back down in layers alternating the manure, compost and native soil. in the spring i had a soil test performed by a lab and used the results to adjust my nutrient levels. I added a lot of gypsum for Calcium and smaller amounts of other nutrients such as Potassium, Manganese, Copper , and Boron.

More satisfying to watch than ASMR

only 5th place?

But, what happened to Jetfire :( ?

@mattradach306

8 жыл бұрын

+Registered Murse He is back in the attic with Grimlock and Slag. :)

@burdy2959

7 жыл бұрын

who is grimlock and slag?

@supertornadogun1690

7 жыл бұрын

pumpkin plants maybe?

@TheEmeraldMenOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

Burdy it’s sad to see this... They are also Transformers. Grimlock is a T-Rex, but I forget who Slag is. Sounds like a Decepticon.

Your robotech action figure though

plywood is also a living thing...

Giant pumpkin

Any one came from science class?

Why only one pumpkin ?

@mattradach306

2 жыл бұрын

They grow bigger if you take all of the other ones off the vine.

1223 pounds and it only got 5th!!!!! wtf

5th place ? what, how, then who was the 1st place

@mattradach306

8 жыл бұрын

+Claudio Rivera My buddy Stan Pugh won first place with 1609 Pounds

Just out of curiousity, with all the effort, why are these giant pumpkins always grown on their side? Can't whatever engineering problems there are be overcome with cleverness? Wouldn't such a giant be worth more if it didn't look like a beached whale?

@mattradach306

2 жыл бұрын

This is the way they grow naturally. Some growers do try to grow them with the Stem on top but there are many issues with it. The blossom end opposite the stem are the thinnest part of the pumpkin and are susceptible to rot so we dont like to have them down in the dirt. Also if you grow it upright, the vine has to go up and over the top of the pumpkin so as a pumpkin grows it starts to put stress on the stem and can actually break the vine. Prize money and bragging rights are based solely on weight so you dont see many people going to the effort to grow one with the stem up. Some times I will grow them on their side and then tip them up on the end for display. If you look at my profile pic that's what I did with that one.

THAT THING COULD HAVE EATEN A SMALL CHILD

+1 fir ri

Belíssimo ilove you

Of course when the entire process is over and the competition is finished, even the most impressive entry probably gets turned into compost. From glory to garbage. Oh well.

Hey it looks like me in a bikini! :D 💖

This is so obviously faked. His foot is on the scale.

x2 speed this is boring

5th place LMAO