Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 80 Entries. Wednesday, April 9 View Page Will Wright Colorado springs, co Wednesday, April 9 View Page no idea whats wrong with my plant, any suggestions Wednesday, April 9 View Page another of 350 grande i think something is wrong with grey on largest leaf. Wednesday, April 9 View Page zuchinni plant from 2007 using aeriated vermicompost tea. Thats all that was used on this plant, was huge and absolutely beautiful. Thursday, April 10 View Page picture of my worms hard at work, i have around 1.5 million worms now eating 1000 pounds of manure and leaves and paper per week Thursday, April 10 View Page started a 1075 scherber '07 on april 5th, has a 4 inch root already and should emerge today. started 1041 sherwood '04 on 4-7-08 and has 1 inch root, transplanted it into 5 gallon bucket of vermicompost with Myco mix. Pulling the greenie in the photos above. Dont want a greenie, i want a PUNKIN. Friday, April 11 View Page Note, Powdery mildew preventer. 1/4 cup baking soda 1 Tbl spoon veggie oil 2 Qts water Spray early morning every 2 weeks. Saturday, April 12 View Page 1075 scherber broke through this morning, looking mighty fine. Gonna be my girl i hope. Sunday, April 13 View Page new and improved hoop house. :) Monday, April 14 View Page Here are a couple of pics of my worm bins. simple 4x8 plywood bottom with 12 inch sides. Monday, April 14 View Page Here is another, notice i use shredded paper on top to keep out light and cover food stuffs. Monday, April 14 View Page for the post concerning rasing worms, here is a harvester i made for harvesting the vermicompost. Wednesday, April 16 View Page Here is the 1075 scherber 11 days after starting. She is a beauty. Wednesday, April 16 View Page 1041 sherwood 9 days after starting, cot leafs a little hurt on emerging but coming on strong i believe. Monday, April 28 View Page well, a couple nites ago it got really cold and my scherber didnt fair so well. Still alive but it did do some harm. Will wait and see how it goes. 1041 sherwood is still going ok and has 2 true leaf coming out now. Both went through some hard transplant shock as i buried them up to the cot leaves. pictures to follow. Monday, April 28 View Page 1075 scherber, got too cold. :( Monday, April 28 View Page 1041 sherwood hanging on still, not sure if either one will make it, have a 910 todd starting just in case. Tuesday, April 29 View Page I decided to go ahead and start the 1078 Zulhke today 4-29-08 due to my issue with the 2 above plants. They may come out of it, they may not, so why chance it. I have the 910 todd starting as well and has sprouted root and hopefully be up within next day or two. This is definatley a learning curve and a hard one at that. Live and learn i reckon. Monday, May 5 View Page 1041 sherwood '04 making a come back. looking a little more healthy now. Monday, May 5 View Page 1075 scherber putting on some new foliage as well, i think they just both might make it. Tuesday, May 6 View Page 1078 zulhke popped through last nite, here it is today. Wednesday, May 7 View Page wrong name on last photo it's the 1041 sherwood today, really starting to do a little something now Wednesday, May 7 View Page 1075 scherber today. Friday, May 9 View Page 1041 sherwood '04 Friday, May 9 View Page 1075 scherber '07 5-9-08 Monday, May 12 View Page wow, they are looking better and better now, nice and fast base too. Monday, May 12 View Page 1041 sherwood, perking right up as well. Wednesday, May 14 View Page wow, really doing well now, i am so darn happy i could just %&%###% , Well, you know what i mean lol Wednesday, May 14 View Page another of the 1075 sherber next to gallon jug on 5-14-08 Wednesday, May 14 View Page 1041 sherwood still chugging along and making a great comeback. Thank you Buddy G for getting me and keeping me on track, your a great friend and asset to this site. Wednesday, May 14 View Page 1078 zulke been in the ground 2 days. figured i would give this one a shot as well Thursday, May 15 View Page 1075 scherber 5-15-08 Thursday, May 15 View Page 1075 can see first male baby flowers on stem 5-15-08 Thursday, May 15 View Page 1041 sherwood '04 growing more and more Thursday, May 15 View Page 1041 sherwood up close Saturday, May 17 View Page 1075 scherber 5-17-08 last picture for a while, they are growing great so i dont feel i need to document but maybe once every 2 weeks. Thanks folks for all the help and advice. You all are some great folks. Saturday, May 17 View Page 1041 sherwood '04 5-17-08 This one just might catch up to the 1075 scherber. It's definately got more leaves. Saturday, May 17 View Page 5-17-08 1319 Greene found its place in the patch today. Really great looking plant so far. Beautiful root mass and was just starting to hit the bottom of the pot it was in so it hadnt began to be root bound and all is well with it. Thanks Buddy G for the seed, very much appreciated. Monday, May 19 View Page ok, i couldnt help it,had to post more pics. i am so excited, i have tendrils coming out all over the base. That means is starting to vine i guess. Monday, May 19 View Page 1075 scherber leaf size compared to my hand. Monday, May 19 View Page 1041 sherwood. 5-19-08 Wednesday, May 21 View Page scherber has a droopy leaf, hope nothing is wrong. Wednesday, May 21 View Page 1075 scherber, making some more vine. :) Monday, May 26 View Page 1075 laid down and vining good. whooopeeeee!! Monday, May 26 View Page 1041 a little behind on the vining, it's making progress but has more foliage than the scherber. Also, the vine is running exactly opposite of 2nd true leaf, someone forgot to tell it the rules lol. Saturday, May 31 View Page my worm tea brewer, see it doesnt have to be complicated. Sunday, June 1 View Page here she is today, she grew another 6 inches last nite, side vines starting to come along, also i have about a 6 inch secondary main i guess you would call it growing toward the back of the plant, do i let this grow or whack it off? Monday, June 30 View Page patch today Monday, June 30 View Page pollinated 1075 scherber x 1048 sherwood '04 on 6-28-08 Saturday, July 5 View Page 1041 sherwood '04 pollinated on 7-4-08 with 1319 greene, only had one male to pollinate with but it was fresh that morning and plenty of pollin. Its very hot and dry and have lawn chair over it to try and help it. Here's hoping it takes. ;) Saturday, July 5 View Page 1075 scherber is about baseball size and has now moved away and out from main vine now and laying nicely from the main. Should be another one ready to pollinate in a day or 2 and will pollinate it with 1319 greene. Sunday, July 6 View Page 1075 scherber female at day 9 pollinated by 1041 sherwood '04 Sunday, July 6 View Page 1041 sherwood '04 pollinated by 1319 green this is at day 2 Monday, July 7 View Page wth is this, does this mean its a boy? Monday, July 7 View Page plants today Monday, July 7 View Page 1041 sherwood '04 x 1319 green, grew last nite, i think this one took finally. not so sure about the 1075 one noted above. Tuesday, July 8 View Page today i noticed the tip of main vine on 1075 scherber is burnt, i think its done except for secondaries now. Tuesday, July 8 View Page here is a pic of the tip of the 1075 scherber Tuesday, July 8 View Page i think this secondary is growing as a new main, this litterally grew like this last nite and today. Thursday, July 10 View Page this is the last one on the main for 1075 scherber. crossed with 1319 green Thursday, July 10 View Page day 6 after pollination, 1041 sherwood '04 x 1319 green. measures 10 1/2 inches circumference this afternoon. Thursday, July 10 View Page new shade clothe over patch today. threw it up temporarily till i get framework built this weekend. this is gonna be great. :) Saturday, July 12 View Page pollinated 3 more females this morning. F 1319 greene x 1075 scherber F 1041 sherwood '04 x 1078 zulkhe F 1075 scherber ( side vine) x 1319 greene m Sunday, July 13 View Page this is day 9 and not growing now i think. i am tired of this already. Sunday, July 13 View Page 1075 scherber x 1319 greene. 7-13-08 Sunday, July 13 View Page another shot of the 1041 sherwood x 1319 green at day 9 today. Monday, July 14 View Page just when i thought the 1041 x1319 greene aborted, last nite the pumpkin grew to 14 3/4 inches circumference. why it stopped for 2 days straight is beyond me. but 2 1/4 inches in one nite is nuts, surprised it didnt split or something. Saturday, July 19 View Page nothing will take pollination, i believe i am quiting for this yr, not much since in trying this late in the game i guess. 1041x 1319 green finally stopped altogether so i culled it off today, 1075 scherber x 1319 green ( last one on main) isnt doing much either, pollinated on the 7th and its just bigger than softball size. still bright yellow and hard but not doing much, probably cut it off today as well. I have 4 more pollinated and 2 more to do tomorrow if i even care to at this point. good luck to all you folks that have had success. I figure i will resume this next yr Wednesday, July 23 View Page 9 day and stem is splitting a little, hopeing it holds. Wednesday, July 23 View Page another shot of stem splitting on opposite side, folks are telling me its normal so we will wait and see what happens. Sunday, July 27 View Page this is a 1319 greene. this pumpkin is 13 days old and i was sure it had aborted, yesterday, july 26th it was size of 2 tennis balls, it almost tripled in size last nite. Now i am regretting not moving it away from main, hopefully i can get it moved. Monday, July 28 View Page pollinated 1078 zulkhe today at 18 ft out. first female on this plant and perfect 5 lobes. Monday, July 28 View Page pollinated 2 1075 scherbers on 2 different side vines on july 26th. one side vine is about 20 ft long acting as my main vine due to loss of tip earlier in the season. have one on same side vine pollinated 3 days prior. the other side vine is only 8 ft and probably wont keep it, just trying to get something going here. Have 2 on 1041 sherwood main vine, one at 22 ft and one at 28 ft. can't remember when pollinated right now but they both took and are growing. one has a couple nibbles out of it from squirrels but not too deep. Gonna grow something even if i end up with small ones this yr. Sunday, August 3 View Page notes day 15 1041 sherwood '04 27inch circ, grew 2 inches during the day today after installing mister system, plants went nuts. 1319 green 25 inch circ at day 21 but didnt grow for 2 weeks in the beginning, only been putting on size for 8 days now. day 6 1075 scherber on 20 ft side vine is 15 inch circ. i am amazed at the difference misters make on the plants, i also went to patch tour yesterday and confirmed i dont water near enough and without mister's here in colorado your fighting an uphill battle. Thanks madmannmarc, joe scherber, gary, and wiz and biz for the advice and getting me on track here. Monday, August 4 View Page 1041 sherwood, 16 days measureing 28.5 circ, you can see where the squirrels took a couple good nibbles out of it when 3 days old. Monday, August 4 View Page 1319 greene. this fruit was pollinated on july 12th but just started growing over the last 9 days now, very strange but it has reached 27.5 inches circ and very nice looking punkin so far. Monday, August 4 View Page this is my 1075 scherber on a 20 ft side vine due to aborts and loss of main early on. it is 6 days old and measuring 17 inches circ already. Wednesday, August 20 View Page 1078 zuhlke at 18 days, gonna be a beauty if she holds together for me. Sunday, August 24 View Page 1078 zulhke, now at 125 ott, growth really starting to pick up on her. she is 4 ott away from passing up the 1041.5 sherwood '04. Sunday, August 31 View Page 1078 zulhke. 149 ott, 80.2 pounds today.