Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 5 Entries. Sunday, June 7 View Page This year I started my growing season on March 15. This day I filed and soaked a 985 Werner seed. In the pic you can see the pumpkin when it was 10 days old. It's growing on a side vine because the main vine stopped growing, and I had to cut it off and let a side vine grow as main vine. I don't know why the main vine stopped growing, but I think it might have mutated in some way. Sunday, June 7 View Page Here you can see the circ; 104 cm/ 41” when the pumpkin was 10 days old. This is the greatest 10-days-circ I have ever heard about. Saturday, September 26 View Page Here is the pumpkin at the Swedish weigh off. It came second, weighing 313,5 kg/ 690,5 lbs. One may wonder why it didn't grow heavier when it was growing so well when it was ”young”? Well, after 15 days I discovered that the main vine started to rotten off, about one feet from the main root. A couple of weeks later even the main root rottened off. Saturday, October 10 View Page When I noticed that the big pumpkin was decreasing in growing speed, I decided to let almost all the pumpkins on the plant grow. I wanted to see how much they would weigh altogether. Here you can see me and the pumpkins line-up, except the big one, which I sold at the pumpkin auction that was held after the weigh off at Öland. The biggets one at the pic weighed 200 kg. The weight of all of the pumpkins together (the 313,5 kg pumpkin included) was more than 1000 kg. One reason why I wanted to know the total weight is that a heavy weight indicates that the nutrience in my soil is enough to grow ”a big one”. Tuesday, October 13 View Page Here you can see the (probably) tallest giant amaranth ever grown in Europe: 7,7m / 25,9 feet. Perhaps it’s also the tallest amaranth ever grown outside of USA? At the top, to the right, you can see Bo Persson (the grower of the amaranth) when we were measuring the plant. Bo Persson lives in Trelleborg in southernmost Sweden, not far away from me. As you also can see, Bo is growing many giant amaranths, some of them are almost as tall as this one. I gave him the seeds, which I got from Brian Moore in USA. I think Bo will try to grow an even taller amaranth next year.