Yeah, I tried without the catcher and with the catcher. I waited for a while, the pumpkin grows but no quota has been filled either way.
Hello sorry for not replying for quite some time i was trying to figure out what the problem was. What seemed to be the problem was for some reason i used the timer for how long pumpkins should have lasted before freezing without thinking that it could lead to different results if your computer wasn't similar to mine. And i made it way too strict. It should hopefully be possible to beat the game now.