2023 - Pumpkin competition

Firefly's growth rate seems to be slowing. 86cm today. She's starting to darken in colour as well.

Same here. Growth is a lot slower (and maybe happening in a different plane?) and the color is becoming a lot more orange. The last measurement was last week, about 40 inches (101.6 cm) around the stem and bottom (as pictured before). Online calculator reckoned it weighed 25 pounds last week. It's a nice big pumpkin, but, alas, not the World's Most Giant as I kept referring to it. Comically, the online calculator tells you how far from the world record weight your pumpkin is