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Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 49 Entries.
Saturday, May 5 View Page
the plants went in the ground april 18 th.may be a lousy year this year redid the garden hauled 9 truck loads of dirt out and got rid of the raised beds.1704 urena and 1149 halbert
Saturday, May 5 View Page
my 1181 from last year
Monday, May 21 View Page
matnureman getting alittle vegas style
Monday, May 21 View Page
the sites of treasure island
Monday, May 21 View Page
awsome show penn and teller put on
Monday, May 21 View Page
to much to drink next year cutting way back
Thursday, May 24 View Page
wow the plant is barely 4' long and have to females already not sure if this is a good thing or not but they will be pinched off
Wednesday, May 30 View Page
Ashcan if you read all the diaries you need to start the seeds indoors then transplant them outdoors when you get your first true leaf.you are way behind and late for here in washington.if you want seeds join the club PNWGPG.COM you will be given seeds lots of seeds
Saturday, June 16 View Page
the 1149 halbert club seed cover came off last weekend
Saturday, June 16 View Page
the 1704 urena female at 11.5'
Saturday, June 16 View Page
my 1181 from last year female at 11'should be polinating next week
Saturday, June 16 View Page
i love this thing no more sprayers on the back 50' hose works great so much easyer to spray the plants now
Friday, June 22 View Page
polinated the 1181 11'out 59 degrees here and raining i do not think it will take can only hope
Sunday, June 24 View Page
ok how much is in the bottle hahaha
Sunday, June 24 View Page
ok i [polinated a 4 lober on the 1704 today hope to have better luck with this one should be another next week
Sunday, July 1 View Page
dispite the cool wet weather we are having i picked my first cucumber today.i pollinated the 1149 today will pollinated 1704 tomorrow. will have another on the 1181 and 1149 by end of the week if nothing takes will pull the plants
Saturday, July 7 View Page
the 1181 the plant is looking great kins keep aborting
Saturday, July 7 View Page
wow seen this gnom riding through the patch he gave me a concerned look must not be promising
Saturday, July 7 View Page
the 1704 urena will pollinate one more tomorrow will be the third on this plant
Saturday, July 7 View Page
this is the 1149 will pollinate a side vine tomorrow
Saturday, July 7 View Page
all in all the plants are looking good the 1704 and the 1149 are alittle slow in growing but look healthy but no kins on any of them will send a leafs in to western labs to see if there is some thing else going on
Saturday, July 14 View Page
i just set my first kin today got all done this little guy comes out of know where to inspect my work,he gave me thums up
Saturday, July 14 View Page
going on the smoker to night for a picnic tomorrow at the park mmmmmmmmmmm pulled pork
Saturday, July 14 View Page
pollinated my last kin of the year a 6 lober on the 1181 this will be the forth.i may have 1 growing only had 1 male to pollinate with so we will see what happens
Monday, July 16 View Page
the 1181 turning the secondaries to run along the fence
Monday, July 16 View Page
the 2 females on the 1181 the bigger 1 only had 1 male to pollinate with.the other was on the yesterday
Tuesday, July 17 View Page
the sand is eating the kin away
Friday, July 27 View Page
the 1181 12 days old 31 cc doing good so far
Friday, July 27 View Page
1704 urena 25 days old smaallish plant 41 cc
Friday, July 27 View Page
1149 ok the small one getting chopped may regret it the big one put on 5 nches since yesterday 27 days old 51 cc
Friday, July 27 View Page
the cull 36 cc heavy little sucker
Friday, July 27 View Page
the inside of the cull
Friday, July 27 View Page
1149 27 days old 51 cc i so hope i picked the right one
Saturday, July 28 View Page
did some one say triplets
Saturday, July 28 View Page
ok may be i did pick the righ one taped the 1149 today after the cull yesterday gained 5 1/2" over night
Wednesday, September 5 View Page
ok one pumpkin down try to load an hour ago pick it up off the ground and the bottom stayed there. it gave no sign of being bad or have a smell nothing what a surprise
Thursday, September 6 View Page
the bottom side of the 1181
Thursday, September 6 View Page
the stem end
Thursday, September 6 View Page
the bloosom end
Thursday, September 6 View Page
the top veiw with a 5 gal bucket
Thursday, September 6 View Page
the 1704
Thursday, September 6 View Page
the 1149
Friday, September 14 View Page
ok 3 weeks to go to weigh off the 1149
Friday, September 14 View Page
the bloosom end through the visqueen the 1704
Friday, September 14 View Page
the side view of the 1704 4 weeks to weigh off
Monday, September 17 View Page
omg i think my season is done in an earlier post i said the sand was eating my kin it was.i just figured out why. i was putting the hoop house awaay i was missing a bag of potassium and the bag of sand was still there.guess thats y the bottom fell out of the 1181 so i am guessing thats whats going to happen to the other 2,funnie there still growing to
Wednesday, October 3 View Page
a side veiw of the 1704 9 days have some cracks on blosom end has me worried will be a long 9 days
Saturday, October 6 View Page
loaded and ready for scholz farm tomorrow
Saturday, October 6 View Page
a side veiw

 

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