Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 47 Entries. Thursday, March 20 View Page My name is John and this is my second year growing big pumpkins.The biggest one I have grown last year was the 440 Tanner UOW(820 Hammerl x 1346 Pitura). This year I will plant the following seeds: 1446 Werner,707 Toftness,500 Beauchemin,1420 LaRue. A special thank to Owen Olsen,Quinn Werner and Bart Toftness for giving me that great seeds. Thursday, March 20 View Page Picture of my line-up........ Thursday, March 20 View Page Here is a pic of my line-up... Friday, March 21 View Page Picture of my last years 440 Tanner.... Monday, May 26 View Page Update after a long time.... My 1446 died because I have used too much of the h202. The other plants are all OK and they are growing fast now. We had a long time very bad weather but it warmed up few days ago. Some pictures of my plants now: Starting with the 1010 Frantz: Don t know what that perforate causes.Maybe a caterpillar a beetle.I sprayed some insecticide. The new leaves are looking good now. Monday, May 26 View Page 500 Beauchemin catches up ,too Monday, May 26 View Page 1173 Macari my best plant so far Monday, May 26 View Page 1420 LaRue is my problem child. It's quite small and it grew very slowly. But now it s growing again and I will give him a chance. When the chips are down I would have a 1174 Ghaye as back-up. Wednesday, May 28 View Page We have still a heatwave here in Germany. The pumpkins like this hope this holds on.... Some pics of the plants 1010 Frantz Wednesday, May 28 View Page 1173 Macari Wednesday, May 28 View Page 500 Beauchemin Wednesday, May 28 View Page 1420 LaRue Sunday, June 1 View Page We had some thunderstorms the last time because of the head we are having in Germany at the moment.But the plants weren t damaged and they are growing ok. 1173 Macari Sunday, June 1 View Page 500 Beauchemin Sunday, June 1 View Page 1010 Frantz Sunday, June 1 View Page 1420 LaRue Sunday, June 1 View Page Don t know if I should cull the 1420 and replace it. I would have a 1174 Ghaye as a back-up: Saturday, June 7 View Page Some pics of the pumpkins today.It is very cold here we have only 57.2 °F.I hope it will get warmer the next time. 1173 Macari Saturday, June 7 View Page 1010 Frantz Saturday, June 7 View Page 500 Beauchemin Saturday, June 7 View Page 1420 LaRue Tuesday, June 10 View Page 1010 Frantz got a 5 f long main vine. Tuesday, June 10 View Page 1173 Macari Tuesday, June 10 View Page 500 Beauchemin Tuesday, June 10 View Page 1420 LaRue Thursday, June 26 View Page Here are some pictures of the pumpkins. They got hail damage 2 weeks ago ,so they are a bit behind but they are growing fine now again. 1010 Frantz is about 10.5 feet long. It also got a female at 10 feet. Thursday, June 26 View Page 1173 Macari It is also about 10 feet long. It also got one female . Thursday, June 26 View Page 1173 Macari It is also about 10 feet long. It also got one female . Thursday, June 26 View Page 500 Beauchemin It is 9,5 feet long. No female yet. Thursday, June 26 View Page Sorry that was the wrong pic. Here you can see the right 500 Beauchemin...lol Thursday, June 26 View Page Last but not least the 1420 LaRue. It is still the smallest plant but I will use it for pollinating the other plants... It s about 6,5 feet long. Also got one female. Sunday, July 6 View Page I was able to pollinate some pumpkins. So far I did 1010 Frantz x 1173 Macari. It s about 11 feet out. It has a nice long stem... Sunday, July 6 View Page Pic of the whole 1010 Sunday, July 6 View Page 500 Beauchemin It got a female at 14 feet.It will be ready to pollinate the next few days. Sunday, July 6 View Page 1173 Macari The second female on the main vine is about 11 feet out. It will be ready to pollinate tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Sunday, July 6 View Page Here you can see the whole 1173. Sunday, July 6 View Page 1420 LaRue Pollinated a pumpkin at maybe 6,5 feet. But it s too near at the stem. Will cut it the next days. Sunday, July 6 View Page 1420 LaRue Tuesday, July 8 View Page 1173 Macari x 1420 LaRue 5 lobes Tuesday, July 8 View Page Here you can see the female.. Also looks great.It has a great shape and a long stem.... Friday, July 11 View Page Here is the female 3 days after pollination.Pollinated it with 3 males of the 1420 LaRue. Friday, July 11 View Page Picture of the whole 1173 Macari.Getting bigger and bigger.... Friday, July 11 View Page 500 Beauchemin It got a female at around 13 feet. Friday, July 11 View Page Here you can see the female Friday, July 11 View Page 1010 Frantz The female which I have pollinated on July 5 didn t set. I had to remove it today.Next female will be ready at probably 10 days so I won t grow a big pumpkin at this one.. Sunday, July 13 View Page Female Bud on the 1173 Macari after 5 days of the pollination.It should be bigger at this time but we had a lot of rain and the a very cold weather the last two days so it didn t grew a lot.It will get warmer on Tuesday so I hope it will take off then. Friday, November 21 View Page I will move the patch next year.Today I got the new topsoil I am going to spread on it.Around 196 cubic yard nice soil....