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CONTEST: Guess total vine length of my rampicante squash!

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Post  Megan 9/29/2010, 8:57 pm

Courtesy of my HOA's insistence and infinite wisdom, in the next few days I will be pulling my rampicante squash plant. SO.... in celebration and in requiem, I would like to propose a contest!

After pulling it, I will measure the total length of the vines. (There is only one squash plant in the photos.) Branches will be cut and measured individually for adding up. Weather permitting, I will lay them end-to-end and take photos of the silly thing, but we're expecting a lot of rain here in the next few days.

Guess the total vine length! rock on

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Prizes:

If you'd like to play, please post your guess to this thread. Cut-off... let's make it Monday, October 4 at 8 p.m. EST. You can refine your guess before the cut-off; I will only look at the newest one.

Happy gardening! flower


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Post  camprn 9/29/2010, 9:52 pm

affraid 50'


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Post  Chopper 9/29/2010, 9:53 pm

42 feet.
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Post  CarolynPhillips 9/29/2010, 10:26 pm

Just the main vine? and not secondaries or tertiaries


Main vine= 54 feet
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Post  CarolynPhillips 9/29/2010, 10:27 pm

Just curious-------will they ever let you grow another vine like this? Do you get to have more fun next year?
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Post  Megan 9/29/2010, 10:29 pm

CarolynPhillips wrote:Just the main vine? and not secondaries or tertiaries


Main vine= 54 feet

No, grand total... every inch of vine, including branches. Shocked

And, I'll try to grow again, but it'll have to be in the backyard next year, if I do.
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Post  CarolynPhillips 9/29/2010, 10:48 pm

ok-------all vines
Main, Secondaries, and Tertiary Vines = 148 feet
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Post  Chopper 9/29/2010, 10:53 pm

ok, changing to 108 feet 2 inches Very Happy
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Post  Wyldflower 9/30/2010, 1:04 am

I'm guessing big, since you're including secondary and tertiaries.... 317 feet
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Post  Patty from Yorktown 9/30/2010, 7:15 am

I'm guessing from your house to the neck of the closest HOA agent. Perhaps 446 feet. Have fun and sent all of the squash bugs to their office.

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Post  Blackrose 9/30/2010, 8:37 am

My guess is 253'

This is a fun way to end the season. And I'm with Patty about the necks of the HOA agents... oh wait! I pluralized that... I guess I'm a little more vindictive than Patty... Twisted Evil
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Post  pattipan 9/30/2010, 9:50 am

My guess: 365 ft

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Post  acara 9/30/2010, 10:25 am

You know ..... with a sqaush vine that big, you undoubtedly have a few extra squash laying around ...

With 1 galvanized pail or a dutch oven lid & a length of surgical tubing tied to a fencepost on each end .... you could probably make yourself feel a whole lot better.

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Post  quiltbea 9/30/2010, 11:15 am

I'll say 167 feet.
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Post  Garden Angel 9/30/2010, 11:46 am

I'm guessing around 175 ft. HOA is obviously not a SFG'er !! that was to funny Patty, sounds like a horror movie the revenge of the squash that ate the HOA ! does the contest winner get to tell them where to, oh well never mind ! jocolor
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Post  WardinWake 9/30/2010, 11:58 am

Well let's see...

182 feet 6 and 3.7548 inches.

God Bless, Ward and Mary.
Wake, VA where we got 12 inches of rain in the last 18 hours.
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Post  Megan 9/30/2010, 7:02 pm

LOL Ward.... We've been getting that same rain here, too. I went home from work early today and was out IN that rain for over three hours!

The results:

1. One extremely waterlogged, dirty, tired Megan.

2. Now you see it... now you don't.....

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Now to measure the vines! (And finish cleaning up, buy pretty flowers, all that stuff.)
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Post  Garden Angel 9/30/2010, 7:42 pm

Wow what alot of work that was ! I got tired just looking at it ! at least the weather was nice for the job. Take yourself a nice hot bath!
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Post  Megan 9/30/2010, 7:58 pm

Garden Angel wrote:at least the weather was nice for the job.
Nice weather?!? It was POURING.....(I snapped that photo during a semi-pause in the downpour.) But thank you! Very Happy


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Post  camprn 9/30/2010, 7:59 pm

Shocked Impressive. Good job Megan!!!
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Post  boffer 10/1/2010, 2:22 pm

96 feet 6 inches
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Post  acara 10/1/2010, 5:16 pm

375 .... I have faith in yr growing skills
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Post  camprn 10/1/2010, 7:16 pm

208'
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Post  Garden Angel 10/1/2010, 7:23 pm

Ok am changing my mind after scrutinizing the crime scene again with my partner, and we think maybe its not as long as we thought?? so we are now saying 85 ft, ?? if its more then oh well !
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