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Post by mrsage on Sept 26, 2014 0:32:29 GMT -5
Hey all MrSage here , from NY zone 7b (now just zone 7 I think). Been focusing all my efforts this year on growing a giant pumpkin this year. Had a late start and only had a successful pumpkin start forming around mid/late August but looks to be atleast 80lbs at this point. Still growing not ripe at all, looking to put on another 80... not bad for my first try. I'll post pics later. Anyway, I love growing unique vegetables and fruits , am especially fond of Pawpaw too. Getting into berries as well, their richness and antioxidant properties is something that has drawn me to them. This seems like a great forum and am looking forward to some good learning and good discussion.
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Post by philagardener on Sept 26, 2014 5:42:34 GMT -5
Welcome, mrsage ! Hope we have a few more weeks of mild weather so your pumpkin can bulk up for Halloween. Good luck! |
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Post by kazedwards on Sept 26, 2014 10:29:26 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum.
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Post by blackox on Sept 26, 2014 18:05:30 GMT -5
Welcome from OH! Can't wait to hear more from you.
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Post by flowerweaver on Sept 26, 2014 20:54:27 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum! Good luck with your pumpkin.
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Post by mrsage on Sept 28, 2014 21:55:08 GMT -5
Thank you all for the warm welcomes.  I'm also growing pigeon eyed peas too, haven't even flowered yet at about close to 8ft tall. |
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Post by blueadzuki on Sept 28, 2014 22:06:03 GMT -5
As someone else in NY Zone 7 (well I thought I was 6b, but according to the map, I'm now 7) I doubt they will. We probably only have 4 or so weeks max before the frosts start). Frankly I'm surprised your pigeon peas have gotten that tall (mine barely got above a few inches)
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Post by mrsage on Sept 28, 2014 22:29:32 GMT -5
Howdy neighbor  , I planted em in late April got from an Indian supermarket. I like them because they grow upright and don't vine around anything, and leave everything else around them undisturbed. I have them planted with the pumpkin vine, even if I don't get peas or flowers at the very least it seems to be helping the pumpkin out feeding-wise and I think they initially gave the pumpkin adequate shade at the beginning stages of fruiting. I've noticed that fertilized pumpkin in too much sun at the early stages seem to promote rot on the developing fruit. If I don't get flowers I'm opting for an earlier flowering variety next year if I can find one. Where did you get your pigeons? |
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Post by blueadzuki on Sept 28, 2014 23:07:51 GMT -5
Actually, mine were a black strain from the Philippines. I found them in a supermarket in Chinatown (the one in Flushing not the one in Manhattan. As the universal seed hunter I'm always in the market for an odd legume or two. But these didn't sprout all that well, and what did stayed pretty short.
To save you some agita (assuming you re going to keep using the Indian grocery stores as a legume source) the white lablab beans they sell in bags (usually marked "Whole Van") wont flower here either, nor will the pods they sell in the veggie section, assuming you find any ripe enough) Though both will make MASSIVE amounts of leaves, assuming you want to fatten up your deer (deer apparently LOVE lablab) Horse gram and moth beans are iffy. I've had a few make the odd flower but that like make a flower NOW when there probably isn't enough of a season left for pods) . The Kala Channa (little brown/green chickpeas work). But you need a long cold spring to get any seed back. Indian cowpeas are a crapshoot, some will work here, some won't and it's almost on a seed by seed basis. Lentils are another marginal. Haven't done mungs or urds recently. Feel free to ask about anything I missed, if you are planning to play around with it.
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I'm also growing pigeon eyed peas too, haven't even flowered yet at about close to 8ft tall.
, I planted em in late April got from an Indian supermarket. I like them because they grow upright and don't vine around anything, and leave everything else around them undisturbed. I have them planted with the pumpkin vine, even if I don't get peas or flowers at the very least it seems to be helping the pumpkin out feeding-wise and I think they initially gave the pumpkin adequate shade at the beginning stages of fruiting. I've noticed that fertilized pumpkin in too much sun at the early stages seem to promote rot on the developing fruit. If I don't get flowers I'm opting for an earlier flowering variety next year if I can find one. Where did you get your pigeons?