Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 32 Entries. Tuesday, January 1 View Page Happy new year.It's been a long time since I posted but here was last years harvest.It was 154 pounds. Not impressive but hope to do way better this year Tuesday, January 1 View Page here is another view of the 154 pounder Tuesday, January 1 View Page I got to see the world record pumpkin this year! Thursday, January 3 View Page I ordered my seeds from Howard dill. Heres the pumpkin it coming from. Weight - 1302 lbs grower - T. Kline Female - 1818.5 Bryson Male - 1404 Bryson Thursday, January 17 View Page Still waiting for seeds to arrive. Already started to practice germination. Friday, February 1 View Page Seeds arrvied. Joined Southren New england Giant Pumpkin Growers association.Going to build a hot house from joe Jutras. http://www.sngpg.com/images/Hot_House.jpg Thursday, February 21 View Page Change of plans for the greenhouse. I am going to do a different plan because of how complicated the other ones is. Thinking of this one. Thursday, February 21 View Page Did a soil test back in the fall. Heres the basic for my results. Ph:6.3 phosphorus: 249 ppm calcium: 2209 ppm Magnesium: 348 ppm Organic matter: 6.4 % I added 3 cubic yards of aged compost into my patch, and 20 lbs ground limestone for my 20 by 20 patch. I also planted a cover crop of winter rye. In the spring I got told to add 16 lbs of dried blood and 2 lbs of muriate of potash. I cant want for the growing season to start. Going to post a picture of my patch soon. Thursday, February 21 View Page my goal this year is 600 lbs. This defiantly can be done with good seed. Friday, March 1 View Page I am making a germination box. The soil tempeture was not reaching 80 to 85 degrees, so I just made this. I am going to cut glass and tape it to the top. Friday, March 1 View Page pics of my seeds 1302 kline Friday, March 1 View Page 1422.5 Giarrusso know this has good gentics Friday, March 1 View Page 1422.5 Giarrusso know this has good gentics Friday, March 1 View Page 1422.5 Giarrusso know this has good gentics Friday, March 1 View Page been really sick for a few days. I was going to work on my hoop house on sunday but now a change of plans. Friday, March 1 View Page I've been bust doing alot of research about growing. I hope to do way better than last year. Friday, March 1 View Page its been cold the past few weeks but its starting to get warmer. Hopefully the winter rye will start getting bigger Monday, March 4 View Page Put pexiglass over the cooler and finished making my germination box. Monday, March 4 View Page Optimal soil tempeature reached Tuesday, April 16 View Page I mowed down the winter rye, applied amendments based on soil test, and tilled my 20 by 20 plot. It looks really small in the picture but is bigger in person. Tuesday, April 16 View Page I also finished my hoop house here's a picture. Instead of using conduit I used PVC. Tuesday, April 16 View Page Mycorrhiza that I bought off amazon Tuesday, April 16 View Page I bought a sun system grow light 150 watts. This is one of the best grow lights I have ever used. I had this one for 1 hour and the room was 77 degress.It also is really bright. I've been using it to practice germination which I am now flawless in. Tuesday, April 16 View Page The seeds I have are the 1302 Kline 12,the 1422.5 Giarrusso 12, and the 1244 Holland 12. My first choice is the 1302 Kline because of its color. As a back up I will be germinating the 1244 Holland. I am planning on starting seeds the 21st or 22nd Tuesday, April 16 View Page here are seeds that I am practing germination on. These will probably be the last ones I get to practice on. So far I have been successful on every one I practiced on. I am already thinking about the weigh off. I am so excited Friday, April 26 View Page 1302 kline - germation sucessfull under grow light Thursday, May 16 View Page I have been busy, anyway everything is going good and the pumpkin has been planted. I just had my birthday on may 2nd and thought I share a pic of my cake.to bad there not giants Thursday, May 16 View Page So here it is. I will have to stress nitrogen more as the plant is not as green. We are up to the 5th true leaf coming out. The first true leaf was/is a little disorientated. I think it is from the cot leaves because I read somewhere that they produce the chemicals for the pumpkin to produce the rest of the true leaves. The white thing you see in the picture is a thermometer that connects to a digital clock that tells me the temp in the hoop house. We had a frost warning a couple days ago but the pumpkin temp remained fine. Thursday, June 20 View Page Not much I have to say but a lot of bad luck. We have been having rain galore and unfortunately the patch has been getting flooded even though I do not have clay soil anymore. As the secondarys where growing they got submerged in water.The main is out about 13 feet and the secondary's are progressing slow and not where they should be and some of them rotted dew to being submerged in water. I have not seen any SVB and have been spraying. The patch started to dry up today. This may affect my goal to reach 600lbs and one last note the first female today. Sunday, June 23 View Page And just as the rain clears up...... Sunday, June 23 View Page more rain Saturday, July 27 View Page well it's been a bad year here. My patch ended up getting flooded from all the rain and my one and only plant died. I have moved to Missouri because of job and will start a new patch