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Tuesday, March 31, 2026
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TowneFamilyVT
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Officially Planted!
After 33 hours in the paper towels, all four seeds had radicles emerging and it was time to move fast. Only an hour after first checking with Carson, the Haist radicles were already noticeably longer.
Dusted each root tip with Azos and added mycorrhizae directly to the planting hole so the radicle made contact on the way down. Covered, wrapped in saran wrap, heat mat dialed to 82�F at the soil probe.
This year I'm starting about three weeks earlier than I typically would. The thought is to have the height of the growth curve roughly DAP 30 through 60, where a well-managed pumpkin is putting on 50 lbs or more per day, land squarely in the warmest nights of July and early August. Vermont nights start cooling meaningfully in late August, and cell expansion is temperature dependent. Timing matters.
It'll also give the pumpkin a full 100-110 days of growth before the Vermont weigh-off on September 19th at Sam Mazza's Farm.
Now we wait. Cotyledons should push through the surface in the next few days if everything goes right. Fingers crossed they all emerge!
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