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We may grow less since we have to do a Guitar show for 10-12 days in October every year. This is our 19th year of doing the same show. I am not here to sell them. I'm glad you like the videos. Not many folks watch them. It's not about making any revenue from the few videos I do.

@@vancochran7344 I understand. I have been on youtube since 2007 and it was so much better then. There weren't as many ads, and people didn't make money here. Though thinking this can be a full time job is a big lie. I will never use my channel to make money. People need to get out and have real jobs. RUclips should be a hobby for anyone to use as a means to talk to other people not to try to get "famous". I always have posted videos because I like them. I am not hear to chase meaningless views. I have maybe 3 active commenters on my channel. That's all I need. I'm glad you feel the same way. I'm happy to be one of the few active loyal watchers you have here. I like the stuff you post. My husband plays guitar by the way.

Thanks Bill!

Thanks Rusty!

Pumpkins are growing. Videos later when they start producing better.

@@vancochran7344 Oh that's great news too. Thanks.

Yes! I will post pumpkins gourds and sunflowers when they get a little bigger. We are not growing for anyone anymore. Just doing our own and selling at our Home.

Porcelain Dolls. Pink and Green. Indiana Dolls all more Orange with no pink of green when we grow them.

@@vancochran7344 good to know. I bought both seeds this year, but fIndian dolls were in that big chunk I forgot to start 🤦🏼‍♀️ I have a lot of organizing and planning to do this winter- going to try to use up the seeds I have first before I order anything.

I have not posted as many videos this year. I posted the one today for the lady that is buying 1,000 pounds worth for a Labor Day Festival. I have not posted too many of the new harvest of the ones we grow for the folks that own the land we grow them for. I have my own I grow on My land too.

@@vancochran7344 That's ok. I still enjoy seeing these. They make me happy. I will catch up on the two you posted this year.

Look at them in a vase. My wife just likes them. I let people come get what they want Free most of the time. I posted another short video of a new 1/2 acre field I planted 5,000 seeds in. Overkill but with the rain in doubt most may not ever grow!

About 9 acres and we only got 4300 pumpkins. The weather was not great. Too little rain and too many weeds. The herbicide we chose was not great. We will try a different Herbicide next year. Sandea might be better.

I buy Mostly from Harris seeds in New York, but I also buy from Johnnys Seeds and a few from Sustainable Seeds and I buy from a dealer in Shipshewana, Indiana named TC Hardware. He sells on EBAY. I will help you with any questions you might have.

@@vancochran7344 ok thank you! I got mine at Johnnys but they don’t have a huge variety of specialty varieties. My biggest question is even with you spraying your pumpkins with liquid Sevin dust (I think that’s what you told me you did), do you still lose a lot of plants to vine borers and squash bugs? So do you just have to over plant what you think you’ll need to take into account the loss? Also how do you control the weeds in that big of a patch!?

@@ReidsRootsShoots It is actually a Liquid Sevin that is mixed by the company. I buy it by the gallon. Yes, we still lose some plants at the end of August but when you plant May 16th like we do the pumpkins are mostly formed and turning by then. If the vines die it makes little difference in the end. I guess overall it might make a big difference if we were growing 200 acres, but we don't grow that many. You can use NEEM oil too. That controls bugs as well as Powdery Mildew. You can buy it off Amazon. It will Kill cucumber beetles too.

@@vancochran7344 oh ok! So you since you plant all of your pumpkins in May, what happens with the ones that have a short maturity time compared to the bigger pumpkins? And also, how do you store them from picking to selling? Thank you!!

@@ReidsRootsShoots Most all the ones I plant take 100-110 days. I don't plant many 90-day pumpkins very often. If I have a 120-day variety I have to plant them earlier.

I like them also, but this is the first year in 4 years I got some to actually grow.

There are some nice ones so far this season. Thank you

I'm not sure how many more years I can do this. I'm 70 and every year it gets a little harder to get everything picked. I have hauled 5 loads and the totals are over 526 pumpkins so far.

@@vancochran7344 I'm sorry to hear that. But I am amazed at how many you get each year. To me you have a beautiful thing going there. Since I was a kid I have gotten giddy about pumpkins and gourds and always want to run through a bunch of them.

The big ones are all Captain Jack. Some wholesale places call them by another name. Some call them Apprentice. Wolf pumpkins are a smaller variety with a giant stem, only up to 24 pounds. I have had one Captain Jack weigh 39 pounds this year.

@@vancochran7344 I guess to me if it's bigger than a pie pumpkin then it's big. I love all the ones that have big stems.

@@ScaryFear The largest Captain Jack we grew is 19 inches tall without the 5-inch stem and 37.5 inches in circumference.

Thanks! I got 42 free skids from a place in Morton, Illinois. They had maybe 150 more. I went up there to get 24 Gaylord boxes to put pumpkins in for this year's harvest. I use wooden pallets under the Gaylords because these plastic ones slip around with a box on them.

I don't show the scenery much on purpose. That is so the pumpkins will not walk off!!!! Some folks like to help themselves sometimes.

@@vancochran7344 Oh I see. That's a shame, but that's unfortunately our world.

@@ScaryFear I will try and show a little more around when I make a video without giving away my exact location. I am not worried about anyone knowing where I live. I have driveway alarms where I live.

We live in Illinois. 2.5 miles South of RT 70. I don't do many videos. I just post some during pumpkin season and right before.

I am happy too!

I will check my list; They are called Baby Boo.

I found some Montana Gold's yesterday that must be close to 35 pounds already. I was out of space on my camera (phone). I will try and make a short video of them. They can get up to 60 pounds.

My wife loves them, so I try and plant them every year for her. Thanks for watching!

I just planted some more things yesterday. I am about finished for the season. There are things that can be planted, but I will be too busy in about 45 days picking pumpkins.

You can actually buy some they call Noids and name them whatever you like as long as the name has not been taken by someone.

Glad to see you back!!! I have another one to post but I may have made it "sideways". I may delete it if it's sideways. Thanks for watching!!!

@@vancochran7344 Thanks. I haven't been on youtube much at the start of the year. Not even my own channel. I had some health issues and we also got our first dog which took all our time. I saw the video of your clearing the land yesterday. I don't know how I missed that too. But happy to see this. Oh yeah, those sideways phone videos are too hard to watch. I use a computer and they look like you're looking through a fence or a keyhole.

Sugar Pie varieties are very small. Try getting some called Howden or Howden Biggie. They are a great size and are easy to grow. You can buy them from Harris seeds in New York.

@@vancochran7344 sorry for bothering you again but i found another pumpkin called ragder why is it difficult for me to get howden's will this ragder serve what i'm looking for or is it in the quality of super giant pumpkins?

@@ronaldocolosio7920 I don't know about that pumpkin (ragder)? Where do you live? In the US? That might help out. I buy from a lot of places. Any pumpkin that is listed as 15-20 pounds will work well. Most take 100 days to grow.

@@vancochran7344 Well, I'm from Mexico :( and here there aren't many varieties of pumpkin that we can say and I would like to try to plant Halloween but the truth is that there are not everywhere and well, as I see the ragder pumpkin appears as Big max and well it says that it reaches 100 pounds but anyway I will continue looking for more types of pumpkin that are smaller and well thanks friend for the advice they are very much appreciated

@@ronaldocolosio7920 Big Max are a lot of work but you can do it if you have the space and the time. I got a few seeds from the Colorado State Record Holder. One weighed #1676 Pounds. Check his Cannel out on your Tube. His name is Chad New. He sent me 5 seeds and I started them all. As long as you water the plants and spray for insects and fertilize the Big Max will grow.

They have real reindeer too and sell Christmas Trees. We are glad you liked the video. I hope you pumpkins do well too.

@@vancochran7344 Oh wonderful. I love Christmas too. I just love all the holidays. Thanks.

We wash all of them, even the gourds. The boxes and tarps are in the shade under the trees, It can get hot. Our partners come and take the boxes and put them inside their barn. Nice airflow and then no need to have anything covered with a tarp.. Over the next few days they will be putting them out on mulch to sell.

@@vancochran7344 how do you wash them? I’m glad you have help- I’m struggling to keep up this year. Need to find help for next year 😵‍💫

@@MitzaCreek We use 1/2 of a plastic 55 gallon barrel and use a black tub with diluted water and bleach water to dip them in after we wash them. We use large soft scrub brushes on them to remove the soil. The knuckleheads are the hardest to clean. You can see the wash station in my last video. It's blue and the diluted bleach water is in a black tub.

I would try starting your pumpkins earlier. If you plant them now even the short varieties will not be done for 89-90 days. We planted our longest ones (120) days back in May on the 13th-15th.

@@vancochran7344 I'm in Florida. They can't be started earlier because of the heat, bugs and diseases. I have been trying planting during normal seasons for years with disappointing failure. I'm thinking the key is our off season. I won't have any for Halloween or Thanksgiving that's for sure but things are finally "cooling" into the mid 80s here and there are fewer bugs. I'm hoping for pumpkins by Christmas. The other season is to plant on Valentine's day before the heat of summer and hope they don't die in June so I can have pumpkins by 4th of July. I have yet to try that season. Our cold winter is Janurary - February. I don't have a greenhouse or that would be the best especially if it had AC.

@@ScaryFear I see, as long as you realize they won't produce anything for 90 to 100 days. Everyone does it differently but we grow ours for Halloween and Fall sales so they start sales in Illinois This coming Saturday.

Read this article. It may be of some use to you. vegetablegrowersnews.com/article/pumpkins-can-grow-in-florida-but-are-they-worth-the-risk/

@@vancochran7344 Thanks. Yes I know they take a long time. Wish we could grow normally but I think pumpkins year round is a great thing too. I just hope this works. Here we don't have real pumpkin patches where you can pick from the vine. We have tents on road sides that are "patches". The state can't produce pumpkins on an agricultural scale. So, we have to import all our pumpkins from other states this time of year. They are all in those big boxes you have at the stores and tents.

We have a lot more than 847, we will end up with well over 4,000 or more. Thanks for watching. I just like to grow pumpkins.You can see more by watching me on Facebook.

@@vancochran7344 Oh my gosh. 4000!!! That's a lot more than 900. I'm the same. I just grow unusual plants like pumpkins, gourds, and carnivores. Thanks but I don't use facebook. If your facebook is visible to the public I can look though. I hope you'll post a video showing some of the final harvest. I would love to see that many pumpkins in one place.

You can see more photos on my Facebook page. I post them daily. We have 26 Gaylord boxes full of pumpkins now and maybe another 10 or 12 more to fill. I think there are 1500 on the ground right now.

@@vancochran7344 What is your facebook url? And not just a name because I can't ever find it that way but the actual url in the browser. I hope you'll post some here though. Like I said I don't use facebook or have an an account.

@@ScaryFear facebook.com/van.e.cochran

@@vancochran7344 It says "You must log into to continue." I had a feeling that would happen. Can't see the pics.

@@ScaryFear I just posted a new video of what we have picked that we still must process before September 11th. 2021.

My Montana pumpkins are more Red than orange. I planted them late so they never got as big as they should have. They can get up to 65 pounds. I have a few that got up to 25-26 pounds. They have a bump on the bottom so some do not sit up right for carving. They are very edible though.