I am always confused at those giant vegetables competitions. Why a normal pumpkin plant would generate a massive pumpkin randomly? What happens in the plant to allow for this?
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This year we grew a giant pumpkin. Not anywhere near the size of a record holder, even locally, but notably bigger than all the others in our garden. To get it, we planted some seeds from a “giant pumpkin” variety that was already predisposed to grow extra large pumpkins. We also kept any other pumpkins from growing on the vine…but there were already fewer than you would expect trying to get started on it.
To get the really enormous ones, you have to do all sorts of extra tricks, but genetics alone will get you extra large vegetables, and selective pruning will make them even bigger.
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