how do they make those really huge pumpkins that they enter into the competitions??

Question

is there growth hormones or something?? that cant be natural!!

Answer 1

they put wicks in the stalk to get water and nutrients into them quicker than through the root system.

Answer 2

The English began competing with flowers and vegetables in shows in the early 1800s. This spread and developed over the years as people enjoyed the competitions. Like all competitions people developed better strains and better cultivation methods so they could win. Pumpkins became international when William Warnock, of Goderich, Ontario, sent a 400-pound specimen to the Paris World's Fair in 1900. His 1903 403 pound record stood until 1976.
The original extreme giant pumpkin seed was from a strain that Howard Dill, of Nova Scotia, hybridized back in the 1970s. It was called the Atlantic Giant. Since 1979, no other pumpkin variety has been a world champion. These pumpkins were selected for one quality and it wasn't flavor. After the genetics it is up to the gardener to do everything possible to supply the plant its cultural needs and protect it from all harm so the plant and the fruit can fulfill its genetic potential. They are natural but they would never survive in a natural state and produce fruit of any appreciable size.
http://www.howarddill.com/
To buy seed from a winning plant is pricey with 2 seed from 1,000 lb fruit costing $12.00.
http://www.backyardgardener.com/pumkin.html
Our local Grand Champion Pumpkin, at 939 pounds, was grown by Geneva Emmons of Issaquah in 1995.

Answer 3

On the video attached to that giant pumpkin on Yahoo!, they mentioned that those pumpkins can grow 30 pounds a day. I know there are plant growth hormones and even plant sterols (similar to cholesterol.) Yet, I doubt that those pumpkins are on steroids. Most of it is surely genetic, and a lot of it has to do with the way the pumpkin is raised (as the other poster mentioned.)

Answer 4

What farmers do is cut away all other pumpkins from the plant. This allows the plant to focus all its nutrients and growth into one pumpkin.

Answer 5

They use biological engineering. and it could be man made substances that mutate it to become so large. they also have a place to grow it where there is a high amount of humus and very clean water. it also depends on the temperature the climate has. If u have loam soil it will help. and there has to be a specific ph level. and a specific amount of certain gases

Answer 6

not sure but must be something to do with the food they feed them and lots of tlc..............