Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 107 Entries. Thursday, April 16 View Page Finally the first post of the year. This year I created a Blog which will document my 2009 growing season, I also plan to put a basic growers tutorial on the site. Follow my 2009 growing season at: www.yardgiant.wordpress.com I will be growing Giant pumpkins, Giant tomatoes, Long gourds, Giant corn, giant sunflowers, assorted typs of pumpkins and gourds, & also a full vegetable garden. I will be posting pictures and updates there on a regular basis. I will still post here sometimes, but will do majority of my updates on my pumpkin growing blog: www.yardgiant.wordpress.com Don't miss out, Check it out!!! Friday, April 17 View Page www.yardgiant.wordpress.com you know you want to check it out! www.yardgiant.wordpress.com Thursday, April 30 View Page 2009 Lineup First off I would like to thank all of the growers that sent me seeds over the winter, Thanks!! check out my Giant Pumpkin Blog for regular updates and Pics: www.yardgiant.wordpress.com Here is my starting lineup: *1102 Pukos (1159 Richards x 998.6 Pukos) *1004 Mohr (772 Poirier x 1317.5 Rose) *1248 Ford (897 Davies x 664 Liggett) *605 Huff Backups on deck: *703 Guns (1009 Young x 778 Liggett) *895 Grande (1016 Delatas x 1385 Jutras) *897 Davies (845 Bobier x 1260.4 Weir) Long Gourd Seed Lineup: * 95 1/2 Guns (97 Duffy x self) * 111 7/8 Lovelace (88.5 Eaton x 125.75 Urena) * 121.25 Duffy (110 Duffy x 114 Wallis) Thursday, April 30 View Page Attention new or new growers that need answers on basic questions about germinating and getting there patch ready for transplant. In my blog this year I added a (Growing Basics) section which will cover the basics to help new people get started in this wonderful hobby/sport. http://yardgiant.wordpress.com/growing-basics/ I will be updating it with more info as the season goes on Disclaimer: I know there are a lot of critics out there. I am not saying this is the only way to grow, there 1000's of different tips, tricks, & techniques people use to accomplish the same task. This is Intended on answering the basic questions that new growers have in a easy to read format. Friday, May 29 View Page Needless to say; Have not had much time to update lately.. Plants in the ground 1004 Mohr: This plant is doing great, it is the best looking plant of the bunch. as of today the main is down and running about 4ft long right now. This plant has been doing 100mph down the highway this week. 1102 Pukos: This plant is looking fine, the main is just about down. This one had a really slow start with some super curled cot leaves but seems to be shifting gears now and picking up steam. 703 Guns & 1248 Ford fighting for the same spot, both are doing ok, both are vining neither has touched down yet. Note: No shelter over these. -----May 25 applied 4oz of Bayer T&S (1.47% Implorid) to each plant, soil drench around plant mixed in with about 3 or 4 gal of water. ----------- Friday, May 29 View Page Planted: LG: 111 7/8 lovelace 95 1/2 Guns Have a 121 Duffy that still needs to go in the ground. Planted 24 Jala maize plants 18 Olitllo Tuxpeno maize Planted about 20 Craved sunflowers from my 15ft tall 15in head last year. Planted last week: Competition Tomato Plants 2 Deleious 2 Big Zac 2 4.48 Perry 2 Belmonte 1 mortgage lifter 1 Hillbilly 1 Mr. Stripy (Not to sure of the size potential of these) Also Planted about 50 assorted pepper plants and some different types of cherry tomato plants. Tuesday, June 9 View Page PATCH UPDATE: 1004 Mohr: Main about 9.5 ft, The secondarys are just starting to kick into gear,I had left the plant for a few days when I checked on it the first sec was coming out of the top of the main about 2ft long, I cut it off knowing it would cause issues in the near future. The rest of the older secs are about 12-18 inches. Female on at 6.5 I will prune this off. Main vine is buried with mycor at each leaf node. Plant is doing great and growing quick. 1102 Pukos: This plant has just kicked into gear the main is about 6ft, had to cut the first sec on this one also. Main vine buried, mycor appplied at each leaf node. There is a battle for my last spot, the battle is between the 703 Guns & 1248 Ford. The 703 is doing good, main is at about 4ft. The 1248 just about touched down, had some germ issue with my last starting seed and ended up starting this one about 10days after the rest. It is doing good, We'll see if it can turn it up a notch and surpass the 703. Tuesday, June 9 View Page Rest of the Garden update: Competition Tomatoes; Doing great, starting to bush out they are all around 2 to 3.5 feet tall. I have been picking off just about all the blooms to focus an root and plant growth right now. Long Gourds: 111 lovelace, doing great it just made the jump over to the trellis and is starting to run. 121 Duffy still in the pot. looking good. 95.5 Guns Wilting severely, I think i might of snapped the stem when I transplanted it, I will prob replace it with the 121 Duffy. 95.5 Guns: I have more started as backups which I will prob grow on another trellis. TALL CORN: Jala Maize: Looking pretty good, they have not really kicked into gear yet, I'll have to hit them with some fert. about 5 to 10 inches right now. a couple were topped by either rabbits or ground hogs. Ortillo Tuxpeno: I grew these in the very back 40 and just about all have been topped by the critters. CRAVEN SUNFLOWERS: 15ft, 15inch head Guns 08: Looking good most are about a foot or so. Armaranth: Still indoors in the cups I have 3 that are starting to grow now (about 6inch) I plan on transplanting them this weekend. Tuesday, June 9 View Page -----------Fertilzed on June 6th (Bloom Buster)-------------- _____applying Pesticide tonight_________ Ortho Max (bifen) applied to entire plant except for vine tips. Tuesday, June 16 View Page ----------Fertilized Today------------ Tuesday, June 16 View Page 1004 Mohr: This plant is doing some serious growing, it is at about 15ft, Female on at about 12.5ft. Female emerged about 3 or 4 days ago. Secondaries are really taking off now. all vines buried. 1102 Pukos: Growing very well now, main is at about 10ft, female on at about 8.5ft(I will cull) Secs are taking off now. Vines have some random yellowing through them Hopefully this is the orange genes and nothing to worry about. There is a double headed first sec witch split on it's own. all vines buried. 703 Guns: I have to admit I have not put much care at all into this plant but it is growing very well at about 10 or 11 ft with nice thick vines, even the secs are thick vined. I plan on catching up on this plant buring all vines and adding some mycor. 1248 ford: is being dwarfed by the 703, I know this plant can throw some bigones, but the way the 703 is growing I can't pull it. I think I will just leave both in and cross my fingers. Wednesday, June 17 View Page ---------------Fertilized June 17---------------- Thursday, June 18 View Page Applied Pesticide (Bifen) June 18 early morning--------------- Monday, June 22 View Page 1004 Mohr: Pollinated: 6/22 Distance: 12.5 feet Thursday, June 25 View Page 6/25 -------Applied Bayer T&S 1.47 implorid--------------- Applied 5 ounces mixed in with 6 - 8 gallons of water to all plants, applied mainly around the stump area and down the main vine. Cucumber beetles are on the prowl.... I seen a few dead ones and a few alive ones flirting around the palnts. I will spray Bifen this evening ---------Bifen applied 6/26 in evening-------------- Friday, June 26 View Page I should note: each plant received 5 ounces of Bayer T&S 1.47 implorid. Friday, June 26 View Page Plants are doing great: 1004 Mohr: I had some issues by the stump area going on and took the proactive approach to hopefully save the stump on this plant. I had a pretty big split by where the secondary was coming out hooking up at the stump are, it wasn't heeling for some reason and started to look like it might become and issue. I cut away some bad tissue cleared out some leaves dug out the soil from underneath to get some good ariflow all around the stump, cleaned with alcohol dried and applied captan to the wounds. Hopefully it will heal without any issues. Also the stump area is has part of the hoop left over it took keep the rain off it. Friday, June 26 View Page 1004 Mohr: Plant is prob. over 20 ft or so, it is hard to tell excatly becuse i have been trying to curve the vines with i have females at: Pollinated one today at about 16ft, I have another at about 16.5ft (Twins)which will prob. open tomorrow. The one I pollinated 4 days ago (at 12.5ft) is just making touch down down and has a nice long stem on it. Plants doing good. I was about 92 yesterday nothing but sun and all of the plants has some pretty good wilting going on, I hit them with the sprinkler for a while and they perken back up. Friday, June 26 View Page 1102 Pukos: Plant is doing good. I have a female on at about 14ft should open this weekend. So far I don't see any others on the main coming up but it is throwing alot on the secs. Hopefully it won't wait to long to throw another female on the main. Friday, June 26 View Page 703 Guns: Plant is doing good, I have a female on at about 9ft open pollinations. I have one at about 12ft prob. open tomorrow, plan on pollinating it with the 1102 Pukos. 1248 Ford: This plant is starting to take off now and I don't really have the room for it concidering the 703 has taken most of the space up, I do have a long area to grow here and might just give it a couple hundred square feet and see what it gives me. Friday, June 26 View Page LG's hit the top of the trellis and are running on top(It's only about 8.5ft tall) Hopefully I'll be digging some holes this year...... Tomatoes are all over the place, I have not had much time to take proper care but I did tie them up and did a little pruning. Sunflowers: They are kicking it in to high gear now and starting to take off they are all between 2.5 to 3.5 ft. I have about a dozen going. I have yet to transfer the Armaranth outside yet, it's about 2ft. Jala Maize: doing ok, I had to put a fence up the rabbits kept eating them down to the ground they are coming back now. Sunday, June 28 View Page Been so busy lately have not had any time to post pics... Here they come!! Sunday, June 28 View Page Patch shot: 1102 P. to the right, 1004 M. to the left. In the upper right you can see the LG trellis. just in front of the LG trellis is the Competition tomatoes, and in front of that is the peppers. Sunday, June 28 View Page Here is the 703 guns, it is at about 16ft right now and is showing a female at the tip as of today. The female at about 12ft was pollinated Saturday 6/27 with the 1102 Pukos. Sunday, June 28 View Page 1004 Mohr: Here is the female fruit at about 12.5ft pollinated this past Monday 6/22 it will be 10 days old on July 2. I angled the main vine around to give more room for the fruit but this thing just wants to hug the main, I have tons of room to work, I will see if I can slowly move this fruit into position. Sunday, June 28 View Page 1004 Mohr: Here are the twins at about 16ft on the main. they were pollinated one day apart 6/26 & 6/27 both were pollinated with the 1102 Pukos. Sunday, June 28 View Page 1004 Mohr: Here is a pic of the stump area, I did surgery earlier this week due to some spiting issues and some early sage rot setting in. (The white stuff is Captan). It loos pretty good right know hopefully it will stay that way... Sunday, June 28 View Page What a sunset Sunday, June 28 View Page Long Gourds top the trellis this week and are running on top. Sunday, June 28 View Page Jala maize corn: Doing good considering what the rabbits did to it. Fenced it in, and now the corn is starting to grow again. Sunday, June 28 View Page Peppers in front, Craven sunflowers from the 15 footer I grew last year are running dow the fence line. Peppers are off to a slow start. Sunflowers are just now kicking into gear and starting to put some height on. Sunday, June 28 View Page Giant tomato jungle, I have not had much time to care for these, but i was able to get in there this week and tie most of them up. I have a few set, none yet on superblooms.. Sunday, June 28 View Page I should note I used RTI Mycor in the pots, In the plating holes and at the leaf nodes along the mains upto about 15ft and at each leaf node on the first 6 or so sets of secs. on the 1102 and 1004. Thursday, July 2 View Page 1102 Pukos: Pollinated at about 14ft on July 1st. Have another female showing at about 17ft. Thursday, July 2 View Page 1004 Mohr: The fruit at 12.5ft grew quicker then I though it would and caused to much stem stress causing vertical cracks along the stem (4 total) and one where the stem meets up with the fruit. cleaned with alcohol and applied captan, I will prob and up culling this one. It is growing well. Repositioned the twins at 16ft put sand underneath. Thursday, July 2 View Page Been in the mid to high 60's last 2 days Sunday, July 5 View Page ============APPLIED PESTICIDE; BIFEN------------------------- Sunday, July 5 View Page 1004 Mohr: I culled the 12.5 footer on friday it was 33cc. It was growing well but the cracks in the stem were pretty deep and long, plus it was at a bad angle to the main so i cut it. The twins at 16 ft seem to be picking up steam now and will be 10 days old on monday and tuesday, both have very good vine position so they will have to battle these next 10 days out to see who will have the plant to there selfs. Plant is looking great. Sunday, July 5 View Page 1102 Pukos: is giving me the pollination blues, I don't know if the one at 14ft took or not. we had about 4 days in the 60's so things have been moving a little slow. We'll see what happpens in the next few days, I do have one a few feet down the main that should open mid week. Sunday, July 5 View Page 703 Guns: The fruit on at 12 is starting to grow, I had kinda bad angle to the main on this one and was hoping to pollinate one about 6ft down the main tomorrow but upon closer inspection the birds had did a number to the flower exposing the and damaging the lobes. I deceided to just cut the main after the 12ft fruit and run my last set of secs up in front and grow a half spider out. This will make it a lot easier to not have to battle with that stem stress over the next month. Note: There are some fine surface cracks on the stem which i cleaned with alcohol and applied captan too. Tuesday, July 7 View Page I think somebody pulled out there pumpkin voodoo doll and a picture of my patch and gave my patch the PUMPKIN STEM SPLITS curse. 1004 Mohr: At First sight I was happy to see the twins were starting to kick into gear after removing the first fruit dew to stem splits and bad vine position. After closer inspection I found this Split on the furthest one out. It is pretty deep and almost the whole lenth of the stem. Cleaned with alcohol and painted with captan. Note: I don't think stem stress could of played to much of a factor in this because the stem was not under any weird pressure. Tuesday, July 7 View Page Twins on the 1004 Mohr as you can see the stem split on the pumpkin to the left days 10 and 11 on these guys today. Tuesday, July 7 View Page 703 Guns fruit at about 12ft. <<<<MORE STEM SPLITS>>>> I know for a fact there could not of been much stem stres on this guy. The other day I dead headed the main right after the fruit, I plan on bring the last 4 secs up and letting them fill the space in front of the fruit. Anyways the splits on the side go all around the fruit prob about 6 total, they are deeper then they appear thier pretty packed with captan. Tuesday, July 7 View Page 1102 Pukos: Main vine fruit about 14ft out finally looks like it wants to get growing, this one might have a little watermelon in it. day 6 or 7. Monday, July 13 View Page -------------Applied Pesticide (Bifen)---------------------- Monday evening July 13th Thursday, July 16 View Page --------Applied Fungicide--------- Applied Spectracide Immunox (2% Myclobutanil) Applied foliar to tops and bottoms of leafs. http://www.spectracide.com/ProductCategories/LawnDisease/LawnDiseaseControl/ Saturday, July 18 View Page Day 20 Numbers are in for the 1004 Mohr & 703 Guns...... Saturday, July 18 View Page 1004 Mohr: Day: 20 CC:62/44/43 = 149 OTT or 80lbs Saturday, July 18 View Page 1004: Rear view day 20. I finally culled the other twin today off of the 1004 plant, It was one day older and about 5ott points smaller with not has good vine position, but the keep fruit does have some stem splits which appeared to healed pretty good. So it was a tough choice on which one to cut off I stodd there starring at them for about 30 mins before I made the decision to do it. The good news is now that the 1004 plant is down to the keep we should see those daily gains start moving up, heck this plant supported two main vine fruits with otts of 149 and 144 on days 20 & 21 along with a 45 side vine fruit which I culled this past wen. So now that we are down to the keep it's either gonna grow big or blow up trying. Saturday, July 18 View Page NOW FOR THE LEADER OF THE PATCH....... I present to you.... The ONE..... The ONLY..... -------Whitey Ford--------- 703 Guns Day 20: CC:65.5/49/45.5 = 160 OTT or 97 lbs. This fruit had no competition for nutrients like the 1004 Mohr fruits did, It has been the lone ranger on this plant except for some small ones I leave on in rotation and cull just incase they are needed. you ask yourself, Why Whitey Ford?........ Next post. Saturday, July 18 View Page 703 Guns: Stem on day 20: There is some decent splitting going on which seems to be healing well, The stem splits get freshened up every fews days with captan. and most important kept DRY. Now for the name The First name is pretty obvious, the fruit looks pretty white!! Hence the name (Whitey). The last name is a bit more alluring. I am going to make you wait till my next update for the last name (Ford). Saturday, July 18 View Page 1102 Pukos: I have two on the 1102 main right now, This is the first one with the outtie belly butten pointed twds the side,I wont win no Dill awards with this fruit shape, If the next one down the line starts to pack on the pounds I will prob. make it my main fruit. (next PIC) Saturday, July 18 View Page 1102 Pukos: Second fruit down, much better shape from the get go. I culled a beauty on wen on the first side vine, it was just getting to big and sucking up the neuts (42lbs). Saturday, July 18 View Page Patch shot from the rear. 1004 to the left--1102 to the right--703 centered up behind them growing the opposite way. Saturday, July 18 View Page The Culled Gang: From left to right: The singe yellow is from the 1102 Pukos on the first side vine weighed 42 lbs. Culled Wen 7/15. The singe White one is Whitey Jr and is from the 703 Guns. Culled Friday 7/17. Weight 20 lbs. Pete, This info is for you: The two Yellow Vixens to the right are off of the 1004 Mohr. The smaller one is 45 lbs. The larger one to the right is: CC:60,43,41 =144ott or 73 est on day 21. The actual weight was 72 lbs. yes I used a Human scale to weight them, I do need a life! This 1004 plant supported the the twins at about 16ft with otts of 144 &149 @ days 21 & 20 along with that side vine fruit. Pretty Darn good considering the 2008 OTT benchmark for a 20 day 1200 lb fruit is 158 OTT. I will post a zoomed in pic of the culled 1004 fruits, you can see on the larger one the Bright orange is already starting to show by the stem area. Pretty good shape on all 3 fruits in the 1004 plant. Saturday, July 18 View Page 1004 Mohr Culled Fruits. Saturday, July 18 View Page Tomato Jungle Those wood 2x2s are about 6 1/2 ft tall. These things are out of control, I really need to find the time to get in there and do some prunning. Saturday, July 18 View Page Future State Record..... Probably not! Darn good home grown tomato to eat though. Saturday, July 18 View Page Peppers are starting to get it done. Behind them you can see the sunflowers reaching for the heavens. Saturday, July 18 View Page The long Gourds: The fat daddy in the center is about 32 inches in this pic. Saturday, July 18 View Page I should Make a note, I heard on the local news today. As of today this is the second coldest July on record. It is suppose to be low 50's tomorrow night. with a high of 71. we are also behind over 4inches of percip on the year and prior to today no real rain in a month (Total .29inches in 30+ days) Not complaining just making notes for next year!! Wednesday, July 22 View Page ---------Pesticide------------- ------Applied 5oz'z of Bayer T&S per plant-------- -----Sprayed Bifen-------------- Monday, July 27 View Page 1004 Now tops the leader board in my patch 1004 Mohr: Day 30: 97.5, 67.5, 66 = 231 ott or 269 lbs est. 10 Day avg. 18.9 lbs The last 2 days it has avg. 22 lbs. The plant overall is in good health, the stump area is looking good, leafs are in good condition. This fruit Seems to be picking up steam now, with the warm nights we have seen the past few days. Monday, July 27 View Page 1004 Mohr: View of the Recessed blossom end. Monday, July 27 View Page 703 Guns: Day 30: 96, 70, 64 = 230 ott or 265 lbs est. 10 day avg. = 16.8 lbs a day. last 2 day avg = 18.5 lbs. Plant is in over all good health. Stem area is looking ok. Monday, July 27 View Page 1102 Pukos: Day 26: 91.5, 58, 57.5 = 207 ott or 197 lbs est. Last 2 days has avg. 21.5 lbs a day. This plant is in good health. This fruit seems to be picking up the pace, I would not be surprised if I started getting big numbers from this one. Sunflowers in the background, largest is the second one from the left at around 12ft or so, most of them seem to be getting there heads... so no crazy tall ones this year. Maybee they'll have monster heads.... Monday, July 27 View Page Evening in the rear of the patch. Left: 1004, Right: 1102 Monday, July 27 View Page Mr. Stripey tomato. all tomatos are still green.... even the cherry tomatos! I have had cherrys on for almost amonth now the are just getting a hint of red to them, Might be all these cold nights we are having slowing down the riping process Monday, July 27 View Page peppers Monday, July 27 View Page LG's The big boy lg in the center had some issues, This monster was peaking out at about 5 or 6 inches a day till the day of the wind........ I had it hung up pretty good but the wind got ahold of it and blew it around so it slipped off of the stem on on to the vine causing the vine to split about half way through. since then (yesterday) I only gained about 2 to 3 inches. SO this one prob. won't brek my PB. Good news the light greenie to the right is a thin one and still growing quick so this one could take it to the endzone for me. I set a few more lg's for another round. Monday, July 27 View Page You Like What You See? Tuesday, August 4 View Page -------pesticide--------- Applied bifen Tuesday, August 4 View Page ------------Fertilized--------------- Thursday, August 6 View Page 1004 Mohr: Day 40 (Aug. 6th photo taken) This Fruit is turning into a beauty queen forsure!!! Now the hard part, Hoping the blossom end stay together! The blossom end on this fruit in sunken in pretty deep with some minor surface cracking. pics to follow Sunday, August 9 View Page --------Fungicide------------ Applied Spectracide: Immunox Disease control Sunday, August 9 View Page "SPORE WAR...... It's ON!!!" Note: Very first sign of PM a couple of leafs to the side on the 703. I have not been as vigilant with these leafs as the others on previous sprays. I hit them really good last night. HOT n Humid perfect spore environment to take over the patch. I will have to get more vigilant with my Fungicide spray program. I was spraying every 10-14 with Immunox, (eagle) but will prob. starting alternating with daconil every week. Monday, August 10 View Page 1004 Mohr: Day 40 recessed blossom end Monday, August 10 View Page 1102 Pukos: Day: 36 This fruit is Turning into a orange beauty as well, it is a low lieing very gerthy fruit. I am still waiting for this thing to kick on the turbos and give me some monster gains.... Running out of days quick for that! It's a shame that cataloping on the left side happened, when it was a yougin I neglected to clip it's shade leaf and a big storm came through knocked the leaf over onto the fruit and it was almost as if the leaf was glued to the fruit. Monday, August 10 View Page 1102 & 1004 The two orange beauties lined up for a photo Friday, August 28 View Page ---------Applied Fungicide---------- Spectricide Immunox Tuesday, September 22 View Page Back in action over here with some patch updates...... Here Is my largest sunflower head of the year, it is of the Craven variety and measures 18 inches across. My sunflowers only reached about 12 or 13 ft tall this year but overall they had larger heads then last year. Tuesday, September 22 View Page Patch shot: Plants are still in excellent condition campared to last year at this time, last year at this time I had only a couple leafs left, this year the plants look good and I am still getting new growth and new pumpkin sets on that new growth. As a note: I used Spectricide Immunox lawn disease control 2% myclobutanal every 8 to 10 days from the beginning of July to my last spray at the beginning of sept. Tuesday, September 22 View Page close up of the original growth. Leafs look excellent for this time a year. You can see the orange beauty to the right, 1004 Mohr Note: Cold July, Rain came in large amounts at a time rather then small amounts spaced out. Tuesday, September 22 View Page Orange!!! Orange!!! Orange!!! Orange!!! Orange!!! Orange!!! WOW, I am very happy with the color the 1102 Pukos (closest) and the 1004 Mohr have took on. Tuesday, September 22 View Page 1102 Pukos: As you can see I have this Girl growing on a pallet, this was not a planned thing by any means... Just before leaving for vacation I went out to do the morning walk through and found there to be alot of sand kicked up next to the pumpkin after closer inspection I found a burrow hole under the pumpkin, not knowing if the bottom of the pumpkin had been damaged by this animal I knew I had to lift it and inspect the bottom to prevent a end of the season heartbreak!! I dusted off the tripod, and maneuvered it into the patch (Note: hard as hell to do without damaging leafs and vines!!!) Pulled out the hoist and harness lifted and inspected the bottom (Bottom was in great shape) then sat it back down on the pallet all this was done while still connected to the vine. Does not get much funner then this!! Tuesday, September 22 View Page 1004 Mohr: Very nice looking fruit, good shape, great color! Hopefully I can make a run for the Howard Dill award somewhere with this one! Tuesday, September 22 View Page Baby Cinderella fruit Tuesday, September 22 View Page 703 Guns: Sarting to get a little color to it, like a really light salmon hue. Tuesday, September 22 View Page Long Gourds: My largest this year is going to be about them same size as last year around 95 inches or so. Tuesday, September 22 View Page Jala maize: Turned out better then expected considering the rabbits were feasting on them when i first transplanted them. Tallest about 14ft Tuesday, September 22 View Page Burrow Hole under the 1102 prior to putting it on the pallet. Tuesday, September 22 View Page LG plants are still very healthy and producing new gourds Friday, October 2 View Page This looks like the ultimate Dodge truck Promotional pic. The only day with out rain in the forcast so I decided to load here up to day, and I had the time. This is the 1004 Mohr looking as pretty as can be just before loading. Friday, October 2 View Page Close up of the 1004. 95 days old. Friday, October 2 View Page 1004 loaded up and strapped down Friday, October 2 View Page Display pic with my dog and the 1004 Friday, October 2 View Page Well I am glad I loaded up yesterday, Rained all day long today. Loaded up, Ready to go to the SHOW! I know there are going to be alot of monster Pumpkins up at Parks tomorrow, I just hope they are all UGLY!! So I cam compete for the Dill award. Good luck to everyone at the Weigh-offs!!! Tuesday, October 13 View Page Well, Been really busy lately time for some updates. Tuesday, October 13 View Page This is the 725 Guns 09 (1102 Pukos x 1004 Mohr) This photo was taken up at the Barnesville weigh-off. Tuesday, October 13 View Page Here is the LG lineup at the OVGPG weigh-off. My LG is the one furthest to the left measuring 94 3/4 inches. I finished 4th last year with a 95.5 inch gourd, no chance at 4th this year. There was quite a few long ones there. Tuesday, October 13 View Page I have no clue who this is, but i have to give them a shout out! This shirt is GREAT! If you know who sells these shirts let me know. Tuesday, October 13 View Page What a shot... This is a shot perched just above the world record 1,725 pound fruit looking down the largest combined weight collection of 10 pumpkins ever anywhere in the entire world. If your into growing pumpkins, This is pretty cool! And yes, There is two really orange ones in the mix, The skinner fruit is first then the stelts fruit, both very nice looking. Tuesday, October 13 View Page 1725 Harp Fruit. Very good shape on this fruit for holding weight, this is the shape needed to go 2000lbs. Tuesday, October 13 View Page Well My fruit finally hit the scale.... 765 pounds 765 Guns 09 (1004 Mohr x 1102 Pukos) Final ott 138, 94, 94 = 326 ott estimated @ 729lbs actual weight 765 lbs +36 lbs heavy to chart. What an Orange Beauty! Tuesday, October 13 View Page Here I am with the 765 Guns 09, What a great looking pumpkin! Great shape! Excellent color! It doesn't get much prettier then this pumpkin! (yeah, I know I have a biest opinion)!! Tuesday, October 13 View Page I would like to Thank all of the growers that sent me seeds this past winter. I really appreciate your generosity! Also, Special thanks to Joe P. and Pete M. Tuesday, October 13 View Page Correction on a sept 22 entry: I stated my sunflower head was 18 inches across, the actual width is 19 inches. Also, after bringing down the cornstalks and measuring I found the tallest to be about 16ft. Thanks you Brian for the seeds!!