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Giant Pumpkin Grower's Guide to Interpreting Soil Tests and Managing Fertility
Growing a giant pumpkin requires good luck, good weather, good seed, and good soil. Of those four, soil is the factor we have the most control over. This ten-page book has helped many growers achieve personal best pumpkins in their patches. It recommends labs to work with, which lab test profiles...
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$15.00 per package of seed
160.00 Ailts 2022
This field pumpkin is the 7th largest in the world for the 2022 growing season. It had a spectacular tall, symmetrical barrel shape. Grown from the 90.5 Ailts seed (also available on this website). The 90.5 contains the 211 MacKinnon genetics, previous world record.
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$40.00 per package of 5 seeds
142.00 Ailts 2023
Tall, massive shoulders with a tapered bottom. This is the largest circumference field pumpkin grown on the Ailts farm. 160 Ailts x 160 Ailts sibbed cross, genetics originate from the former WR 211 McKinnon.
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$35.00 per package of 5 seeds
135 Ailts 2023
This is a collection of 10 giant field pumpkin seeds, 2 from each of the following pumpkins: 142lbs, 135lbs, 122lbs, 114lbs, 90lbs. All seeds are the 160 Ailts x 160 Ailts sib cross. 90lb was skinny and tall, 114 was squat like cinderella's coach, 122 & 135 were perfectly shaped giant jacks, and...
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$65.00 per package of 10 seeds