Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 53 Entries. Monday, April 15 View Page summary of the long 2012-2013 off-season... Monday, April 15 View Page Caught my first muskie Monday, April 15 View Page sold the house Monday, April 15 View Page harvested early Monday, April 15 View Page landed it safely after the move Monday, April 15 View Page watched it shrink for 2 months... (1306 Mohr x self) Monday, April 15 View Page Made it to Halloween Thursday, April 18 View Page rented 1 Baretto. Took out 1/2 of lawn. Then slept for 14 hours. Thursday, April 18 View Page Woke up. Purchased a lot of really good dirt and compost. Rented a small Bobcat. Slept another 14 hours. Thursday, April 18 View Page Woke up again, got 2 soil tests. Added 30 pounds of RTI myco, 10 pounds winter rye, a little bit of Zn, Cu, B, Mn, and 1 nightcrawler per square foot of patch. Topped it off with all the white stuff. Thursday, April 18 View Page No little white seeds this year. Filed, soaked, and in pots 3 days ago. Thursday, April 18 View Page Seeds in 4� of starter mix... Thursday, April 18 View Page Patch under a beer and a half of snow... Thursday, April 18 View Page Still no plaque from the folks at Guinness. Still no irrigation to the new patch either... Thursday, April 18 View Page Will try to bring a new World Record to Colorado this fall. Thursday, April 18 View Page first roots popping out of peat pot. away we go... Thursday, July 4 View Page 941* sherwood x 996* haist, 4 lobes, 13 feet out Wednesday, July 10 View Page Patch shot. Main plant filling in nicely. Friday, July 12 View Page day 8 Wednesday, July 24 View Page Blossoms quickly expanding to bigger than my palm... cut the fruits... pulled the squash... oh well, pumpkin continues to look great and needed more real estate anyway. Thursday, August 1 View Page thumps heavy. Thursday, August 15 View Page SUNS OUT! GUNS OUT! CAUTION: excessive weight gains may occur at application rates exceeded two gallons KDL/gallon of water. Thursday, August 15 View Page SUNS OUT! GUNS OUT! CAUTION: excessive weight gains may occur at application rates exceeding two gallons KDL/gallon of water. Monday, August 19 View Page lesson #6 in soil compaction. Monday, August 19 View Page Genetics Patch. For those who aren't afraid of a little orange with their green. nice rodonis veins... white jarvis stripes... and a haist pollinator. 941* sherwood (1486* jarvis x 1495 stelts) x 996* haist 50% should grow green. 100% chance for a 2014 new WR. Wednesday, August 21 View Page Coke can looking smaller... I think that far pine tree needs to come down next year. Friday, August 23 View Page DAY 50 Tuesday, August 27 View Page current OTT weight = WR - 786 pounds Thursday, August 29 View Page All smiles... still in one piece at 11 PM... Friday, August 30 View Page Like I said... Scherber is a class of his own... Friday, August 30 View Page No pics of the blossom allowed... Friday, August 30 View Page Need about 20 OTT in the last 30 days to have a shot at the SR. Gonna be really really tough at the current rate.... Saturday, August 31 View Page cross is 996* Haist x 941* Sherwood Friday, September 13 View Page 3 days of heavy rain are over... sun's out, gun's out!!! terminated all new late season growth and hit it with KDL. Some would call that crazy. Continues to put on weight, although it loses 0.0002 ounces per day in weeping out of the blossom. Hope she stay together after all the rain. Lots of new cracks showing up, so still putting on some decent weight. Friday, September 13 View Page A Haist squash has to be too thick to split, right?? Saturday, September 21 View Page fish, KDL, humic... sitting in the mid/high 800s, hope it goes real real heavy. Thursday, October 3 View Page squash was pretty much done growning until I added 5 pounds potassium sulfate and 2 cups KDL. Apparently it is still growing a little... A nice new big fresh KDL crack formed last night, so she's still putting on some weight!!! Done with the fertilizers for the season... going to snow Friday, and will weigh Saturday! Thursday, October 3 View Page Saturday will be the first annual northern Colorado weigh-off, at FORT COLLINS NURSERY. Ribbons have arrived and look great! Thursday, October 3 View Page Sample ribbon. Color and design came out great! The art in the center looks amazing. Really impressed with the quality. Thursday, October 3 View Page Nice overall size. about 16 inches. Thursday, October 3 View Page Last shot of the season if I don't take a picture of tomorrow's snow.... Plant is pretty beat with some frost damage, despite all the KDL! Random flower in the foreground. It's one mean squash... should have a shot at the record, can't ask for more than that. Saturday, October 5 View Page Lifting day... Sunday, October 6 View Page Bobcat left me some work to do... Sunday, October 6 View Page Landed it safely in the trailer. Sunday, October 6 View Page Moment of truth... Sunday, October 6 View Page 905.5* Mohr 2013 (996* Haist x 941* Sherwood). OTT = 340, +4% heavy to new chart. Didn't get the record, but happy to go over 900, and a nice squash for my first attempt at green. They definitely grow different than the pumpkins! Sunday, October 6 View Page Thanks to Fort Collins Nursery for the great weigh-off. We had 12 entries for pumpkin, and 5 for sunflower. Sunday, October 6 View Page Sunflowers Sunday, October 6 View Page Here's all the entries: Sunday, October 6 View Page End of a long day. Sunday, October 6 View Page Always seems like the Halloween costumes come out about an hour after the weigh-offs end... even though it's still the first week of October! Sunday, October 6 View Page Took some time for a well needed mountain bike ride... deciding whether to go orange or green next season... think it might have to be GREEN. Sunday, November 17 View Page For all you CSU Rams fans out there...