Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 11 Entries. Monday, March 5 View Page Planning on growing a seed from my own ghostly white, 409 Abbate 2011 pumpkin this year. Tuesday, March 6 View Page Thought I should show a picture of the stump on the 222 plant that grew my 409. Tuesday, March 6 View Page Interesting things about the 409 and 222..... -It was estimated at 310 lbs, it came out 99 pounds heavier, which is almost ridiculous for a pumpkin of this size. -The 222 Abbate seed was grown by 20 other gardeners in the Okanagan. It won 11 prettiest pumpkin awards. Every pumpkin grown from the 222 was bright white and extremly heavy to the charts. -Very large stumps, aggressive plant growth. -All pumpkins grown from the 222 had deep ribs. (Bad thing for spliting / Kinda good thing for prettist pumpkin) -Both the 222 and 409 had dill rings. Yet the inside walls of the pumpkins were still 6 inches thick in the dill ring area. So the chance of spliting is still kinda low. -Very sucked-in blossem ends. (Bad thing for spliting / Good thing for prettiest pumpkin) -Both the 222 and 409 had very high seed counts. (Over 1300 seeds in total) Saturday, March 10 View Page Waitin' for summer..... Picture: Okanagan lake, June 2010... Saturday, March 17 View Page WHY?!?!?! Saturday, March 17 View Page Line-up for this year. Pumpkin: 1647 Wallace DMG 2011 (1725 Harp X Sib) Long Gourd: 80.00" Starr 2007 (126.5" Jutras X 86" Jutras) Prettiest pumpkin: 222 Abbate 2010 (900 Sandvik X Self) Saturday, March 31 View Page Happy birthday to me! Saturday, April 28 View Page 1647 Wallace. (1725 Harp X Sib) 11 days after sprouting. Saturday, April 28 View Page 409 Abbate 2011 (222 Abbate X Self) 12 days after sprouting. Saturday, May 5 View Page 409 Abbate 2011 18 days after sprouting. It's been really cold here for the past week, so this one has hardly grown at all... Thursday, August 2 View Page Pumpkin growing, and quite frankly this entire year has really been horrible for me. All plants where pulled. I'll be back next year.