Giant Pumpkin Update 9 - August 17, 2025

Dylan here with Merritt today and we're going to do a quick pumpkin update. Just walking around and we've got one pumpkin plant left and one pumpkin left. So it'll be a shorter update. Let's see how it looks. So here's what we're working with. Stump still here, vine, and there's the pumpkin in the corner. It's doing really well. We're just getting the slightest bit of orange. I just uncovered it. Usually I keep it covered but since we're out of the sunny hours I thought I'd pull the cover real quick, make sure it was dry just so it wasn't getting rotted, and I had watered it this afternoon. So just making sure everything's good. Pumpkin's looking good. It did wilt today. I didn't get enough water on it and I'm not sure how much longer this is going to remain viable. We've got a couple issues. I'm guessing there was some damage. There was some damage done in there from vine borers. A couple spots near the stump and I'm just leaving it. I'm really watering heavy on the whole plant to make sure any of those other adventitious roots are taking up water and helping. And then another thing, this really never set another pumpkin but I just noticed I've got another one here and you know we're like 45-40 days from the end or so. So I don't know what to do with this other stuff. Maybe I should cut it off. Maybe I should just leave it. Who knows. Okay that's the pumpkin update this week. I did end up cutting that other stump off the other plant and I'll show it to you really fast because I didn't rip it out. I left it here because I was kind of curious to see how quickly it would wilt down after I cut the stump. So the stump was cut about a week ago now and it still hasn't wilted down. It's got so many other roots off the vine that it's just maintaining itself somehow through that. It was already chlorotic before I cut the stump but now it's just sort of an experiment watching it. There's no pumpkin on there so I didn't feel the need to keep it. But we'll just leave it and see what happens for a little while. I'm going to keep watering it as well. All right thanks everyone for watching this week's pumpkin update. I'd love to hear it if you have any comments or questions. Thanks again. Bye.