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Saturday, June 7 View Page june7 2008 it's a rainy day here in south wisconsin so i thought i'd sit down and start my 2008 diary first off i'll be growing 3 dill plant this year my fav the 1267.9 along with my 867.8 and my 678.2 all plant have been growing good in the bad weather we've been having,i dont have any pic at the moment but i'll get some up by tomarrow.best of luck to all growers.Josiah Saturday, June 7 View Page here is my 678.2 we will call him smocker planted may 22 Saturday, June 7 View Page here is my 678.2 big leafs vary big for its age, we will call him shank,i divote this name after this guy that kept killing me on call of duty 4 this morning Saturday, June 7 View Page wrong pic on the one above Saturday, June 7 View Page and here is my fav the 1267.9 we will call him mellow planted april 29 Saturday, June 7 View Page i'll put new pic in every four days so cya all Saturday, June 7 View Page ps. the secend photo down is supose to be 867.8 Sunday, June 8 View Page june8 rain wind stormy day today, and for about 5 more day we are not gunna have no sun at all so hopefully the plants dont get set back to much, as far as fertilizers go i have been giving my plants a steady dose of fox farms grow big, and a shot of fish emulsion once a month, and once my plants start to bloom out i'll swich to fox farms big bloom, and thats what i got for firtilizers this year, again best of luck josiah Tuesday, June 10 View Page June10 all plants are doing fine after 5 days of rain,and wind up to 25 mph, and dont you know we are supose to get like 4 more days of crapy weather, if the weather keeps this up i'll get set back alot!!!!!! but the good news is we got some sun today,but still 27 mph wind gusts.l'll get some pic's in tomarrow morning if it's not to bad outside, so you all can see what has become of my babys. Josaih Wednesday, June 11 View Page here is my 678.2 or smocker Wednesday, June 11 View Page here is my 867.8 or the shank Wednesday, June 11 View Page here is my 1267.9 or mellow Wednesday, June 11 View Page guess what ya thats right we are supose to get another 1-3 inches of rain tomarrow gezz and we have a flash flood warning out for are area,my plants are gunna get so set back gezz. well what can i do. best of luck Josiah Sunday, June 15 View Page here's 678.2 smocker Sunday, June 15 View Page and here's 867.8 the shank Sunday, June 15 View Page and the king of my plants the 1267.9 mellow Sunday, June 15 View Page here is a pic of the patch as you can see vary simple hoop houses but they work. Sunday, June 15 View Page i'll upload more pic's next week or seven days. josiah Sunday, June 15 View Page im vary happy right now cuzz we are gunna have 5 days of pure sun, and ya thats right no rain thank you god!!!!!!!!!!!! Wednesday, June 18 View Page update, my 867.8 shank has it's first female flower on it ya!!!! of coures i'll have to chopp it off, but all and all my plants or doing just fine. Wednesday, June 18 View Page another update my 1267.9 mellow is 6 feet long and is putting on about 6 and a half inches a day on it's main,and shank the 867.8 is five and a half feet out,and is putting on about the same as mellow 6 and a half inches a day,and cant forget the little guy the 678.2 smocker he's about a foot and a half out just growing as fast as he can,putting on 2 inches a day. Friday, June 20 View Page every thing is looking good over here all plants are doing fine i figger there set back about ten days tho becuse of all the rain we hade. i'll get pic's up in 2 days Sunday, June 22 View Page 678.2 smocker Sunday, June 22 View Page 867.8 the shank Sunday, June 22 View Page 1267.9 mellow Monday, June 23 View Page update my 1267.9 mellow has his first female flower on his main. Wednesday, June 25 View Page in the last sixty hours mellow put on twenty one inches on his main, the shank put on twenty four inches , and smocker put on eleven inches. not bad Saturday, June 28 View Page 678.2 smocker fout feet out he had his first female flower on at three feet Saturday, June 28 View Page 867.8 shank a little over ten feet out, puting on ten inches a day on his main, secondaries finely starting to take off Saturday, June 28 View Page 1267.9 mellow elenven feet out should have a polination soon, yesterday mellow put on an amazeing 13 inches off his main vine, in a little less than twenty four hours. Wednesday, July 2 View Page in the last 12 hours 867.8 shank put on 16 inches of her main vine,for it to grow this much the humidity outside was 58 the temp was 82 and we hade scattered showers with sun at time's. mellow put on 11 inches,shank put on 6. i should have a polination by july 6th Monday, July 7 View Page pallinated a five lode female off the 1267.9 on july six (1267*times*867.8) off a secondarie six feet out. Monday, July 7 View Page and this morning i pollinated a six lobe female off the 867.8, a good six and a half feet out off a secondarie (867.8*times678.2) i will have two more polinations off the mains of the two plant i pollinated so far in the next day or two, Tuesday, July 8 View Page 678.2 smocker 5 and a half feet out Tuesday, July 8 View Page 867.8 shank looking good at sixteen feet out Tuesday, July 8 View Page 1267.9 mellow also looks awsome Tuesday, July 8 View Page a polination off the 867.8 Tuesday, July 8 View Page a female fower from the 1267.9, 14 feet out should open soon Tuesday, July 8 View Page a female flower from the 1267.9, 14 feet out should open soon Tuesday, July 8 View Page also one on the 867.8 main 13 feet out Friday, July 11 View Page 1267.9 5 days old off a secondarie Friday, July 11 View Page 867.8 4 days old also off a secondarie Friday, July 11 View Page ok this morning was the first rainy day all week and it is also the day my two female flowers opened off the 1267.9 @ 867.8 so this morning i was pollinating in the rain but i think i did a good job hoppfully they will take, if not i got to go with the one's on the secondarie's. this is a pic of the 1267.9's female flower that opened this morning looks to be a 5 lobe, kinda goofy looking tho. Sunday, July 13 View Page here is a pic of the boo boo i made when trying to reposition my pumpkin :( Sunday, July 13 View Page this is how i position my pumpkins as you can see i use the lobe as a anker to attach my twine too. i just cant beleive i broke my lobe :( Thursday, July 17 View Page 1267.9 off main vine 5 days old 14 inches in cir Thursday, July 17 View Page 867.8 off main vine 5 days old 12 inches in cir Thursday, July 17 View Page 867.8 off secondarie 10 days old very round pumpkin he is at 22inches in cir Thursday, July 17 View Page split gezz Monday, July 21 View Page update time the pumpkin with no lobe ended up aborten so now i got to go with my back up on that plant witch is at day 14 if first day of pallination is day zero, he has a 38 and a half inch cir, 28 inches over the top, and 27 and a half inches from side to side for a ott of 95 and he weigh's 24.08 lb. now the pumpkin on my 1267.9 is 9 days old looking good so far he has a 26 inch cir, 17 inches over the top and 16 inches from side to side for a ott of 59 not to bad, he weigh's 12.01 lb. i did get a pollination on smocker yesterday though, ps i hate the rain so far for july we got 6 inches witch is not the best uhhhggg. Monday, July 21 View Page 1267.9 main pumpkin day 9 26 inch cir. Monday, July 21 View Page another shot of the 1267.9's main pumpkin Monday, July 21 View Page here is my keeper on the 867.8 plant, the pumpkin is 14 days old and has a ott of 95 not to bad. ps, i fear for my pumpkin's as we just got 2 inches of rain in a matter of minutes Sunday, July 27 View Page as of this morning the pumpkin on the 867.8 secondarie has a ott of 134' cir 54.5 over the top 40.5 from side to side 39 inches, he is 19 days old. the pumpkin on the 1267.9 main has a ott of 112' cir 50.5 over the top 31.5 from side to side 30 inches , he is at day 15. not to bad Monday, July 28 View Page a split on the top of the 1267.9 main pumpkin ouch!!!!! Monday, July 28 View Page another view of the split Monday, August 11 View Page here is a pic of one of the back up's i had to fall back on, he is on the 867.8 day 21, i will not say the ott just yet but in the past week she put on 75# Monday, August 11 View Page and here is the pollination that i got off the 1267.9 on july 30 she has a 101 ott for a estimated weight off 29.6#. and ps. do you see the scare on the top of this pumpkin its not from the leaves, every pumpkin on this plant has that scar Thursday, August 21 View Page my bigest pumpkin right now in the patch on day 30 just shy of 300# Thursday, August 21 View Page another view of the pumpkin Thursday, August 21 View Page and here is a shot of the last pumpkin on the 1267.9 day 21 126# Tuesday, September 2 View Page here is a pic of the pumpkin on the 867.8 plant day 40 08-31-08 400# Tuesday, September 2 View Page 1267.9 day cant remember i think day 31 but it's been slow for this one only 200# cc-92 over the top-65 from side to side-50 ott 207 inches Tuesday, September 2 View Page update time again, pumpkins are still growing the 867.8 is putting on anywere from 10-12 pounds a day cc-110 over the top-72 from side to side-83 inches, still hopeing to hit 600# by the end of september. good luck to all Friday, September 5 View Page here is a pic of the front end of the 867.8 as you can see its green, this pumpkin has been geting greener and greener as time passes and yes it's was showing green at a young age so mabbey i'll have a squash at the end of the year lol! Friday, September 12 View Page cut the 1267.9 kin off yesterday do to it aborting the est. weight was 212 the actuale weight was 286 pounds it had walls that where 14 inches thick in some places i didnt take no seeds from it cuzz that kin was a open pollination. Friday, September 12 View Page 867.8 still growing should pass 600 by weigh off time Thursday, September 25 View Page well it's been a little while now since my last update so i supose i'll post a pic or two. my pumpkin has past the 500#mark and now the goal is in sight i have nine more days to hit 600# i might need a little luck though Thursday, September 25 View Page side veiw. Friday, October 3 View Page im not gunna lie it was a bit scary lifting these pumpkin up, cuzz we never did it before but we did it with ezz. here is a pic of my pumpkin being hoysted in the air. Friday, October 3 View Page and we landed Friday, October 3 View Page now for my brothers pumpkin Friday, October 3 View Page and were safe Friday, October 3 View Page pumpkins on the traller, my brother tyler left and me right.weigh off is tomarrow morning Friday, November 28 View Page well i know it's been a while since i posted in here, and i have not posted are pumpkins weight's, so i figgerd i'd finely post pic's of the pumpkins and there weight.both pumpkin went light i think the one was 10 % light and the other 15% light. anyways here is a pic of me and my pumpkin she weighed 501.5 lb and went 10% light. Friday, November 28 View Page and here is my brothers pumpkin with him by it, that pumpkin weighed 695#lb and went 15% light, bummer Friday, November 28 View Page and on another note, here is me and a buck i was able to harvest during the wisconsin rifle season, close to my biggest buck ever, did'nt score it yet so i dont know yet proble is, he had 9 inch G2's, im gunna get back in the blind after rifle season with my bow and try to get one bigger, becuse i know we have three more bucks bigger than that, in the area.