Soon after we arrived in Wolfville we finally got around to starting the seeds. One mistake that we made was to try to start the seeds outdoors instead of indoors. The seriousness of this mistake was compounded by the poor May and June that we experienced. Fortunately, one of the three seeds did germinate, and it started to grow relatively quickly once we moved it indoors.
About two weeks ago we the one successful plant was large enough to re-pot so we finally moved it into a far-to-small-but-the-best-we-could-do pot that is now outside with another of the other plants in our container garden.
So far the transfer to the new pot seems to be going well. The plant has really start spitting out new leaves on a regular basis. If things keep going at this rate the plant will clearly be too big for the pot.
And quite recently I noticed that the plant also finally has finally started to show signs of flowering.
Even though this plant is doing better than I ever thought it would, we are still quiet a ways away from a viable giant pumpkin. And I guess ever having anything even approximating a giant pumpkin was a long shot, it really would be satisfying to at least have something approximating a pumpkin, but I guess we will have to wait and see if even this comes to pass.
And I should probably note that we aren't the only ones with a giant pumpkin plant in the Wolfville area. A few weeks ago Jeannette and I learned that a giant pumpkin plant had secretly been planted in a flower bed in downtown Wolfville.
When we last checked on this rogue pumpkin plant we noticed that even though the flower bed in which it is growing had been weeded it had not been removed. Unfortunately, I don't think that it is getting the water or attention that it needs so, like our plant, it isn't very close to producing a giant pumpkin. I guess we will have to keep an eye on it as the summer progresses to see if anything comes of it later in the season.
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