Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 126 Entries. Monday, April 13 View Page 2009 season is underway, garden is as dry as can be, so we added fertz tilled it and now all thats left is the plants. as far as seeds go this year we have not yet desided on our contenders, but we know for a fact we are going to plant something orange. pic of garden before tilling. Monday, April 13 View Page fertz ontop of ground. Monday, April 13 View Page after tilling. in 20# blood meal 30# bone meal some lime for ph and ashes. Monday, April 13 View Page close up of the ground after tilling. Monday, April 13 View Page birds eye view of garden, this year we plan on puting in a solar panel and water pump so we can use our pond water on the pumpkins over in that garden, hope it works Monday, April 13 View Page second garden, there will be two plant on the far right side, one on top the other on the bottom. Saturday, April 18 View Page seeds filled before saoking in a 10% hydrogen peroxide 3% salution, the red seeds are both from the 812 Glisczinski (1290 Porrier X 1186.8 Bowles) the white seeds are from a pumpkin that i liked but never got the name of, i got the white seeds at last years boat regade over at nekoosa it was the pumpkin that had the logo's of the childrens hospital on it and the biggest pumpkin in the regade the skin was very pale the blossom end was big. so if anyone no's the name and crosses for this pumpkin plzz email me them thx. Saturday, April 18 View Page seeds in hydrogen salution. Saturday, April 18 View Page pic to last post Saturday, April 18 View Page seeds in there coccon, nice temp. Saturday, April 18 View Page after soaking for 14 hours plus in the grmination chamber for 18 hours i am happy to say 3 of the early 4 seeds have germinated. and they have been plased in pot where there comeing up as seen in pic Sunday, April 26 View Page mystery pumpkin finally revealed, after geting a email from michael faskell, he said that sounded like his pumpkin that I discribed, so I went to cwpg.org and took a look at his pumpkin and it looked to orange, and I could not see the blossom end so what I did was, got out all are canons memory cards for 08 and started sreaching for a photo of the pumpkin that I got the seeds from, and I didnt even know if we had any, so after sreaching over 7 GB of memory I found what I was looking for! just one pic of the pumpkin, but that was all I needed, it was infact michael's pumpkin he just had it turned up side down so the bottom end was up{ all right thumbs up } we got that mystery solved. As of right now pumpkins plants are doing great. thanks again Mike for your help sincerely Josiah. Sunday, April 26 View Page 812# Glisczinski, this plant has been doing pretty good, I did have another one that I intened to be a back up, but it didnt come up after it had been potted,and ended up roting, in the soil! I did'nt over water it, just a bad seed i guess. Sunday, April 26 View Page 1021.50 Faskell (1290 poirier + 802 Beauchemin) this one is very strong and healthy, nice looking plant. Sunday, April 26 View Page another 1021.50 not as bright and is missing a leaf, When we seen the seed we knew it was gunna come out weird, but it should be fine, Sunday, April 26 View Page and as far as the garden goes, we put in 10 yards of very good cow manure, should be great for pumpkins, we put it on our blueberrys last year and I got a berry the size of a half doller, maby a sign! Tuesday, April 28 View Page We transplanted all plants into green houses this morning,and started back ups,All tho I dont think we will need them,Back ups are the following 812# Glizcinski and 246# Brandt.Best of luck to everyone Tuesday, May 5 View Page 812# Glisczinski,This plant has been growing ok,I dont expect much growth in the early season,Because of the weather we have in wisconsin. Tuesday, May 5 View Page The one cot 1021.5 Faskell,this plant has been growing nicely! Tuesday, May 5 View Page the second 1021.5 faskell(aka)my brothers plant,this plant is going to be a strong plant,I can tell.weather has been great the last few days, day temps in the low 70s with nights in low to mid 40s,and sunny, great for wisconsin. but soon it will get bad again, temps not so much but rain and more rain! ahhhh Tuesday, May 12 View Page 812# Gliscznski, 14th day in the patch. Tuesday, May 12 View Page 1021.5 faskell, she will take off soon! Tuesday, May 12 View Page My brothers 1021.5 faskell, looking good. Tuesday, May 19 View Page 812# Gliscznski, growth is getting more aggressive. Tuesday, May 19 View Page 1021.5 Faskell, this plant wants to take off, I have a feeling the next time I post this plant will have grown alot! Tuesday, May 19 View Page My Brothers 1021.5 Faskell,Getting bigger. Tuesday, May 26 View Page 812# Glisczinski, Very nice grower so far, the main vine is around 3 feet in lenght. Tuesday, May 26 View Page 812# glisczinski, Stem view. Tuesday, May 26 View Page 1021.5# Faskell, Growth is picking up, Should hit ground soon. Tuesday, May 26 View Page 1021.5# Faskell, Stem view. Tuesday, May 26 View Page Brothers 1021.5 Faskell, Going to hit that faster growth any day now. Tuesday, May 26 View Page Brothers 1021.5# Faskell, stalk veiw, very thick stalk. Tuesday, May 26 View Page Small batch of compost tea, Seven hours into brew. Tuesday, June 2 View Page 812# Glisczinski,hoop house has been taken down,Wind barrier has gone up,All in all this plant looks realy nice,The main is six feet out,which puts me way ahead of last years plants. Tuesday, June 2 View Page 1021.5# Faskell,Not as big as I would of liked to of seen it this time of the year,Hopefully it will catch up to the others. Tuesday, June 2 View Page My Brothers 1021.5 Faskell,starting to vine,Right now it's putting on 5 inches a day,So look out next week this plant will be big. In all the pictures that is a one gallon jug of fish emulsion to compare the plants to. Tuesday, June 9 View Page 812# Glisczinski, Growth has slowed on all plants, because of all the rain this past week, and chilly nights in the high 30s and day temps in the low 50s. Tuesday, June 9 View Page 1021.5# Faskell, Happy with this plant this week even with all the rain it cranked out some stem. Tuesday, June 9 View Page Brothers 1021.5 Faskell, looks healthy, but it did slow down alot. Tuesday, June 16 View Page 812# Glisczinski, It's amazing what a little sun can do. Tuesday, June 16 View Page 1021.5 Faskell, Growing good starting to shoot out secondaries. Tuesday, June 16 View Page My brothers 1021.5 Faskell, very healthy, found the first female flower of the season on this one yesterday. Tuesday, June 16 View Page 246# Brandt,had this one as a backup, I ended up not needing it, so my brother jeremy planted it by the second Faskell plant. Tuesday, June 23 View Page 812# Glisczinski, Very strong plant, I just have one problem with it? Tuesday, June 23 View Page The main went bad sixteen feet out, and I have no female flowers on the main, So im gunna chose a secondarie to set a pumpkin on. Tuesday, June 23 View Page this I hope will be that pumpkin. Tuesday, June 23 View Page 1021.5# Faskell, looking good, The main is 10 feet out. Tuesday, June 23 View Page Brothers 1021.5 Faskell, The main is thirteen feet out with a female at twelve. Tuesday, June 23 View Page And here she is, Tuesday, June 23 View Page 246# Brandt, starting to kick it into gear, 7 feet out with secondaires coming out the sides. Tuesday, June 23 View Page also cuke beatles have arived, so we did a treatment with triazicide, worked great. Tuesday, June 30 View Page Picture of the patch, 1021.5# Faskell left, 812# Glisczinski right. Tuesday, June 30 View Page 812# Glisczinski, I have pollinated three famales on her so far, one looks like it will be a keeper. Tuesday, June 30 View Page 812# Faskell, There is a female at twelve feet that will open tomarrow. Tuesday, June 30 View Page Brothers Faskell, had a female open with seeds in the bloom at twelve feet ahhh, there will be three more females opening on the main soon. Tuesday, June 30 View Page You can see the seeds at the bottom of the lobe. Tuesday, June 30 View Page 246# Brandt, The main is about twelve feet from the stump. Tuesday, July 7 View Page 812# Glisczinski,this plant is doing realy well, it is 600 sq.feet, I'll let it get to 1000 before I terminate the vines. Tuesday, July 7 View Page My keeper on the 812# Glisczinski. Tuesday, July 7 View Page 1021.5 Faskell, pumpkin set 13 feet from the main, I'll pollinate one more at 17 to be sure, that one will open in a day or two. Tuesday, July 7 View Page Brothers 1021.5 Faskell, the pumpkin that we pollinated with the seed in the bloom took and is growing, but we just pollinated two females on the main this morning, so my brother wants to go with one of them instead. Tuesday, July 7 View Page 246# Brandt, This plant is bigger than what it looks like in the picture, the main is 15 feet out, and will be ready to pollinate soon, In the background in my brothers 1021.5 Faskell. Tuesday, July 14 View Page 812# Glisczinski @ 1021.5 Faskell Tuesday, July 14 View Page 812# Glisczinski @ 1021.5# Faskell Tuesday, July 14 View Page My pumpkin on the 812# Glisczinski, day 14, realy showing color. Tuesday, July 14 View Page My pumpkin on the 1021.5# Faskell, also showing color. Tuesday, July 14 View Page Brothers 1021.5 Faskell, growing good. Tuesday, July 14 View Page Pumpkin on my Brother Faskell.very long stem. Tuesday, July 14 View Page 246# Brandt,very healthy. Tuesday, July 14 View Page Pumpkin on the 246# Brandt, day 1. Tuesday, July 21 View Page over head view of the 812# Glisczinski @ 1021.5 Faskell. Tuesday, July 21 View Page 812# Glisczinski day 21, even with the unseasonably cool Temperature, it still managed to hit the 20 day benchmark, for 1200#. Tuesday, July 21 View Page 1021.5 Faskell day 18, cir. is 43,gunna fall well short of the benchmark, but this plant is still filling in, I will start terminating vines soon. Tuesday, July 21 View Page Brothers 1021,5 Faskell, 90% of the vines will be terminated by the weekend. Tuesday, July 21 View Page Brothers 1021.5 faskell, day 14, growing slow, but again the vines are just started to be terminated. Tuesday, July 21 View Page 246# Brandt, little plant is gunna make a big pumpkin. it's about 400 sq. feet. Tuesday, July 21 View Page 246# Brandt, day 7, It's the size of a base ball, will it abort? Tuesday, July 28 View Page 812# Glisczinski day 28, All vines are terminated, And yesterday she put on 30#, every things looking good as of right now, But we'll see what august brings. Tuesday, July 28 View Page 1021.5# Faskell day 25, starting to ramp up it's growth, all vines are teminated on this one as well. Tuesday, July 28 View Page 1021.5# Faskell day 25, starting to ramp up it's growth, all vines are terminated on this one as well. ps. if this dubble posts it's not my fault. Tuesday, July 28 View Page My Brothers ugo pumpkin day 21, it was looking good than in just one day it went from beauty to the beast, just look at those nasty bumps everywere, ugo! Tuesday, July 28 View Page 246# Brandt day 4, the last set aborted, this one is'nt looking to good either, so dont go, and get your hopes up. Tuesday, August 4 View Page 812# Glisczinski, slowed down a little this week, but still packing on the pounds, day 35. Tuesday, August 4 View Page 1021.5 Faskell, day 32, the average weight gain per day this week was 22#, and the largest gain was 35# Tuesday, August 4 View Page 1021.5 Faskell, ok if this pumpkin makes it to the weigh off it will definitely win the ugly award, you may not see it in this picture but there are bumps everywere on her, and with every day that passes it gets uglier. Tuesday, August 4 View Page 246# Brandt day 10, cc 26. Tuesday, August 11 View Page 812# Glisczinski day 42. still growing, but I wish it would grow more! Tuesday, August 11 View Page 1021.5 Faskell day 39. put on over 200 pounds this week, est. weight is right around 400 to 450ish, by next week this fruit should be my heaviest est. fruit in the patch. Tuesday, August 11 View Page Brothers 1021.5 Faskell, still ugly as ever! look how low the blossom is, yah low right! Tuesday, August 11 View Page This picture is a close up, of my Brother 1021.5 Faskell skin, bumpy right? Tuesday, August 11 View Page 246# Brandt, growing at a good pace. Tuesday, August 11 View Page And here is a patch picture of the 812 and 1021.5. Tuesday, August 25 View Page 1021.5 Faskell front @ 812 Gliszcinski back. with a good september both should make 1000 pounds easy. Tuesday, August 25 View Page 1021.5 Faskell day 51?, still doing good gains, taps solid, I guess it will go heavy. Tuesday, August 25 View Page 1021.5 Faskell, looking good right? Tuesday, August 25 View Page bumps on the faskell, bigger than you thought right? this plant does have a Diseases, if you did'nt guess all ready! Tuesday, September 8 View Page 812# Glisczinski. right around 700 pounds, Thats me for comparesent. Tuesday, September 8 View Page 1021.5 Faskell, est. 850 to 900ish right now, again me for comparesent. Tuesday, September 8 View Page Brothers 1021.5 Faskell with him by it, est weight 450 to 500ish. Tuesday, September 8 View Page Close up, of it's skin. Tuesday, September 8 View Page bumps are really getting big. Tuesday, September 8 View Page one more pic, of the massive bumps. Tuesday, September 22 View Page 812# Gliscziski, I'm letting the sun hit her in hopes she oranges up, looks like it's working. Tuesday, September 22 View Page Now for the Faskell, still doing ten plus pounds a day, plant looks great for this time of the year, and we have eleven more days before the weigh off in nekoosa. Tuesday, September 22 View Page Brothers Faskell, still gaining weight and put some color in the mix too, just a cool looking beast! Wednesday, September 30 View Page 4 days left before weigh off, 1021.5 Faskell day 89 I think, last night was suppose to be cold, so we covered plants with tarps, 9:00 am this morning it was 30deg;F. all the plants froze!! Wednesday, September 30 View Page check this out, the 1021.5 Faskell in my mind is going way heavy, taps as hard, as a rock, picture is showing the cantaloping, on the stem end. Wednesday, September 30 View Page blossom end, also Cantaloped, this pumpkin is the most Cantaloped pumpkin i've ever seen! Wednesday, September 30 View Page 812 Glisczinski day 92 I think, great color, tapes over 800#. Wednesday, September 30 View Page 1021.5 Faskell, just a cool,ugly,amazing,out of this world,ugly again, looking beast. Sunday, October 4 View Page loaded, and off to nekoosa. 1021.5 Faskell, 812 Glisczinski. Sunday, October 4 View Page Brothers 1021,5 Faskell, Sunday, October 4 View Page Brothers 1021.5 Faskell weighed it at 568 pounds, 20% heavy! Sunday, October 4 View Page My glisczinski, being unloaded. Sunday, October 4 View Page My Glisczinski weighed in at 697.5, went light! Sunday, October 4 View Page Faskell went way light, weighing in at 834.5, I was bumd. Sunday, October 4 View Page Me and my 834.5 Brandt. Sunday, October 4 View Page Me and my 697.5 Brandt. Sunday, October 4 View Page Me getting the seeds out of my 843.5 Brandt, the pumpkin ended up being droped from a crane, at the fest. no pictures of that, but we have video of it. Sunday, October 4 View Page got about 200 good seeds; thats just some of them in the picture. Sunday, October 4 View Page picture is showing the under side of my Brother 568# Brandt. Sunday, October 4 View Page stump on the Glisczinski. Sunday, October 4 View Page last picture for the year, this is the main vine on the Glisczinki, 10 feet down the vine, check out the tap roots! Sunday, October 4 View Page next year we'll work harder, and will push over 1k! Monday, November 9 View Page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI4zAfJ-I_Q video of our 568# Brandt, being carved for seeds. Friday, December 4 View Page one more side picture for the diary.