Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 40 Entries. Friday, March 30 View Page My soil test for my patch this year. I need to raise the CEC. Doing research on that now. Any ideas? Tuesday, April 17 View Page 3rd day in starter mix with mycorrhizea...is this white fuzz damping off? Air temps at 80-83 degrees. Squeezed all drops of water out of starting mix. A little bothered if this is damping off disease. Added a warming lamp to dry the surface further. Saturday, July 7 View Page I'm terrible at updating this thing. Anyway, here is the 1704 Urena (2011) ::Female 991 Urena, Male 1468 Stevens:: I've got a female at ~13 ft may be ready to open her flower next week. Saturday, July 7 View Page Here is the 1360 Urena (2011) DMG ::Female 1210 Van Hook, Male 1303 Sweet:: I am also growing a Langevin 2011 Mutt for kicks. Monday, July 9 View Page Here is the 1704 selfed with 6 males. Rubber banded and covered with a styrofoam cup. Ice placed next to the 'kin...it "only" got to 90 here today so hopefully all is well. However, I am a bit behind the 8-ball though with only 76 days till weigh off. Still a few days until other 'kins and backups are pollinated. Monday, July 9 View Page The Aftermath....these fellas look tired! Tuesday, July 10 View Page Self Pollinated a backup on a secondary on the 1704 Urena... 5 Lober...sincerely hope I'm not forced to grow this one. Tuesday, July 10 View Page Here is my 1704 backup on a secondary in the evening after this mornings pollination. I have another female to pollinate on the main in about a week. Tuesday, July 10 View Page Here is the 1704 selfed on the main after day 2. Does this look normal? I'm a little concerned. If this one does not abort my 4 year old has informed me that it shall be called "Peter Pan" Tuesday, July 10 View Page Female on the 1360 Urena is closed up tight tonight so the bees dont get a taste tomorrow. Wednesday, July 11 View Page Very very wet here. Still managed to pollinate my first female on the 1360 Urena Dmg with males from the 1704 Urena. This one is only 8-9 ft out but there is another one that will open next week a few feet further down. Thursday, July 12 View Page This is probably a big problem...maybe pythium? Is it at all possible that this is from Myco? Doubt it. Saturday, July 14 View Page White fungus showed up in the patch from the 7 straight days of rain. Wednesday, July 18 View Page Second fruit self pollinated on the 1704 10 days behind the first which appears to be growing at an acceptable rate. Nice looking 5 Lober but position is a little odd in the patch. Used 5 males. Wednesday, July 18 View Page previous post said pollinated 10 days after first one....it was actually 9 days Thursday, July 19 View Page 10 day measurements are in on "Peter Pan" 67.5 OTT Sunday, July 22 View Page Pollinated another 5 lobe backup on the 1704 selfed it with 8 males ~20 ft Monday, July 23 View Page 1360 pollinated with 4 of the 1704 males 5 lober 18 feet out on the main Monday, July 23 View Page 1360 self pollinated with 4 males 5 lober 19 feet out on the main Tuesday, July 24 View Page Here is the 1704 at day 14 top view Tuesday, July 24 View Page The three "California Girls" on the 1360 Urena. Tuesday, July 24 View Page Got down in the patch to look at the girls and smelled something a little "off"...upon inspection there was a bunch of rot around the stump. I cut out an entire secondary..(it was only 5 ft.) also cut several leaves and dug out all signs of rot and sulfured the stump to dry it out. Thursday, July 26 View Page Got to the patch this evening and saw a few leaves completely laid over...this is the last time the three California girls will be hanging out on the same vine together Thursday, July 26 View Page close up of some of the rot on the 1360 around the end of the main vine Thursday, July 26 View Page started cutting rot away Thursday, July 26 View Page another view of what I cut away on the 1360 Thursday, July 26 View Page another problem on the 1360...this is not good Thursday, July 26 View Page then I saw this horrible spot and thought...oh no...an svb... Thursday, July 26 View Page here is the end of the 1360's main vine before the final cut Thursday, July 26 View Page I went ahead and cut 2 of the California girls loose...and then cut the vine open looking for an SVB grub....nothing...already exited??? or is this just a disease?...haven't seen a single SVB in my patch this year... Thursday, July 26 View Page 1360 5 DAP the only California girl left from the triplets after all the rot was cut away Thursday, July 26 View Page Oh right, there is a main vine split on the 1360 at about 9 ft. as well...... Thursday, July 26 View Page 1360 open pollination today---a new hope?...its on a secondary coming off at 15 ft or so....also there is another pollination coming in the next day or so... Thursday, July 26 View Page 5 DAP on the Langevin 2011 Mutt....looks pretty good for wild card genetics Friday, August 10 View Page Here is Mutt 20 DAP 152 OTT. Not a lot of plant behind this one. Wednesday, August 15 View Page Tried a new 1704 Urena x self pollination today after shocking this plant. It has finally started putting out females again. Just hoping to get one to keep the genetics line. Thursday, August 16 View Page Had some stem splitting on Mutt today. Slit it a little more going away from the pumpkin to relieve stress. It doesn't go into the cavity, so we'll see if it stays together. Friday, August 17 View Page Stem split on Mutt. Probed it and its not into the cavity. I split the stem a little further down the stem side to relieve stress. Hopefully this will heal over nicely and not rip itself from the vine. Tuesday, August 21 View Page This was Mutt yesterday 30 DAP 204 OTT. Really not gonna be big. Monday, September 3 View Page RIP Mutt stem split went into the cavity...it is now becoming a pile of mush