Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 39 Entries. Wednesday, March 11 View Page will have pics 15 july when camrea gets here .kids lost canon 10 pikz zell.well 13 pickzel is better .want to show u all what ive worked on .think you will be pleased.sv tropper growing close to the same plant .thanx jim b plant is the the boss.783 wow bobby m Friday, March 13 View Page greatfull to here from willys patch.growing as well as nh weather alowes us.great grower willy. grow grow grow gpzzz Thursday, June 25 View Page plantz 4 doing wellnot much sun lotz o water sun hit today lotz o femz cutz um off sidez 14 out looking grrw um big working on dat hav 2 femz on mainz watchin no comitmentz now watching evy 10 hrs feeding as noted on big pump .com thanx all Friday, June 26 View Page o my god Friday, June 26 View Page o my god Friday, June 26 View Page Growing a 783 Beauchemin and a 926 Breznick. Both plants are approximately the same size, about fourteen feet wide and thirteen feet long. Lots of rain, not much sun. Plants seem to be doing well. Stems are yellow, leaves are green. Lots of females have appeared over the last two days. Have removed all females from side vines. Two tiny pumpkins on the main vines. Thank you all for all I have learned. Very excited, o my god, never seen plants like this. Hope to have pictures up soon. Saturday, June 27 View Page Finally put up the wind guard as thunderstorms are predicted from now until it seems forever. Declared war on all the bugs that blew in with the last storm, cuke beetles, white butterflies, haven't seen an SVB, watching, spraying sevin hard tonight. Females at thirteen feet on the 783 Beauchemin. Proud of this plant, thanks Jim. For my 926 Breznick, thanks to Jim Kuhn. These two plants are running a race. Two other plants (unknowns from Topsfield) only about half the size but continuing to grow well. I learn a lot from everyone's diaries, appreciate it. Sunday, June 28 View Page All females taken off side vines. A couple of potentials, two on each major plant. War on bugs seems to be won. Kleaze 10, bugs 0. Cuke beetles lost the game. Still raining, however, and rain predicted all week. Plants and I would like the sun to come out. Is this global warming? If I could, I would put a greenhouse over my whole patch -- with sodium lights. Go Red Sox. Tuesday, June 30 View Page Heard today this has been the fifth coldest and rainiest June on record in NH. Plants are hanging in there and still managing to grow, approx. 19 feet wide and 14 feet out. Hope to have pics soon, one of the kids ran off with camera??? Suitable female on 783 Beauchemin at about 12-1/2 feet, may pollinate tomorrow. Zip-tied her tonight. Still waiting for female on the 926 Breznick. Intend to cross these plants with each other. Thursday, July 2 View Page no svbz watching all hours .cuke bugs lost the battle fungis may be close now 20 so days wet lots of rain plants are holding on goodstill. growing polinatied 783 with 926 am july 1 hoping it took well. had 2 older males may be fine or not more femz coming on main vine at 14 feet .926 larger plant slow on females on main.svb watch is on.thankx bill R Saturday, July 4 View Page Finally done with the thirty days of rain. Sun for the past two days. Pollination on the 783 seems to have gone well, will be doing more work, hoping to pollinate the 926 in the next day or two. Plants doing well, bugs are at bay. Had a great 4th of July with my family. Tuesday, July 7 View Page big willtzz right to much rain plantz look good & large nh growers plants all slow for polinations got a few in may patch .frist pol did not take.second 3ad 4th 5th moving fast.need much more sun. sun sun .no bugs no fungis lots of slugs .my foot killz them. lots of um. on all my plants walk ways.green house .it stinks dont like it at all. nastey goo bug dont like to touch um .cut um in to peices with my pruning sniperes Wednesday, July 8 View Page pics new cam on 7 15 09 will give lots O pics kids cost lots of time & money space as well Thursday, July 23 View Page FedEx has apparently lost the new camera. So still can't post any pictures. One small pumpkin actually exploded. My friend's pigs got a nice snack. Have eight fruits set. Largest maybe 40 lbs, but flattening out on the bottom. Hope no more blow up with the new rain coming. 926 is out 24 feet, but 783 has more fruit. Vine growth seems to be slowing down. Garden has never dried out this season. Long gourds (93" Beauchemin, thanks again, Jim) at the top of their trellis, lots of flowers. Tuesday, August 11 View Page This picture was taken on May 8. My brother riding the tractor down to the patch. Tuesday, August 11 View Page This picture was taken on May 9. Putting the Beauchemin 783 into its new home. Tuesday, August 11 View Page This picture was taken at the beginning of July. Pooh says, "this is a honey of a pumpkin." Tuesday, August 11 View Page Patch picture, also from July. This pumpkin was eventually culled. Have three still growing, hope to post up-to-date pictures soon if my daughter will hold still long enough to let me upload from her camera. My camera is still in a FedEx black hole. . . Monday, August 17 View Page Finally some up to date pictures. Here is an overview of the patch with the three pumpkins. Please excuse the weeds. Monday, August 17 View Page Here are the three keepers. This white pumpkin is on the 783 Beauchemin, crossed with the 926 Breznick. Approximately 270 lbs. Monday, August 17 View Page This pumpkin is on the 926 Breznick at about 10 feet out on a secondary vine. The secondaries are about 25 to 30 feet. Crossed with the 783 Beauchemin. Weighs around 260. Monday, August 17 View Page This pumpkin has been named Kleazilla. It is my best hope. About 14 feet out on the main vine of the 926 Breznick, also crossed with the 783 Beauchemin. Exciting watching this pumpkin grow. Pumpkin Pooh says it's like riding the hobby horse at the grocery store. Whoo baby. Still a honey of a pumpkin, yesterday weighted about 303. Monday, August 17 View Page Here is a picture of Kleazilla's stem. Wanted to grow on the stem, I was forced to roll the pumpkin and put burlap under it to get the stem off the ground. The vine on the stem seems to have flexibility to tolerate the moving around without stress. Hope all goes well with this one. Monday, August 17 View Page Pooh also likes to visit the sunflowers. He's been all over the garden. Tuesday, August 25 View Page Had a visit from my twins and their friend. They came over to see Kleazilla. So here is a picture. Pumpkin Pooh was not available. The two on the right are my kids. Kleazilla (OTT 273, 434 lbs.), looks small surrounded by all these people! Growth has slowed a bit. Terminated all vines tonight. Weeded the patch Sunday so the dang weeds won't eat all the fertilizer. Friday, September 11 View Page Growth on all the pumpkins has slowed down. At last measurement Kleazilla was approx. 550 lbs. Still a honey of a pumpkin for my first year. Hope to get another picture soon. Nice color and a pretty shape. Pooh will attend the next photo session. Tuesday, September 15 View Page As promised, one more series of pictures. Here's Kleazilla from the front. Tuesday, September 15 View Page Kleazilla from the back. Tuesday, September 15 View Page And her brother Kleazenite. (on same Breznick plant). If I'd cut one of these pumpkins, would the other one have grown to twice the size????? Tuesday, September 15 View Page OK, sorry, guys, too many pictures. Here is Kleazenite. The previous pumpkin never got a name, it was on the Beauchemin plant, got off to a great start, but peaked very early. Tuesday, September 15 View Page Hope I can figure out a way to get these guys to a fair. Hoping to build my own lifting ring, we'll see. In the meantime, here's something else we're growing. Tuesday, September 15 View Page Love to grow sunflowers, they are so cheerful. And the bees love them as well. Pooh likes seeing the bees too! Monday, September 21 View Page nh growers are not bloging . bumkinz doing great job nice pickz kids helping. like that\ . my kids lost my carmra still wating for fedx for MY new one.will have pics with honey bear poo.where is fedx.thank you all for all your in put and for my 783 jim x 926 breznick 06.seems to work well.and now barron von shadow MY dog wants me to let him out.ok barron nite nite all Friday, October 2 View Page Here we are getting ready to take Kleazilla to the Rochester, NH fair. Friday, October 2 View Page In the lifting ring -- kindly loaned by Bruce Whittier. Thanks, Bruce. Friday, October 2 View Page On the scale at Rochester. My first weigh-off (but not the last). Went a little heavy at 558. Still a honey of a pumpkin -- and I'm happy with the color. Friday, October 2 View Page My third-place ribbon. All in all, not a bad first year. Took Kleazenite to the NHGPGA weigh-off at the Deerfield fair and placed 13th at 421. Took another (interesting but ugly) pumpkin just to be weighed for my records, came in at 390. Tomorrow is Toppsfield, going just to watch. But I'll have an entry next year!!! Sunday, October 4 View Page iam so happy to see all the growers at the end of a bad growing season here in new england did as well as all did.NE can grow ummm big.how about cristy harp wowww 1725 new world record you rock we granite .iam sure all older growers will neal down as well for that the great pic.jest heading for 2000 lbs. much pleased with my frist go at a giantpumpkin using what i had for seed.926 breznik mommy/783 beauchemin/daddy.seemed to work well as 926 got moving .domanant plant rules my patch even today .926 brez/beauchemin783 will be used as my study.hoo will be mom/hoooo will be dad.that 926 gave me 2 pumps i am verry proud of.558/421=979.pulled stump ding vines are going to grow tillfrost hits hard.i will bet granite. learned lots reading diarys thanx all growers for helping me get growing on BPC. end o season e mail maciver ama @aol.com Saturday, December 5 View Page not much to say today waiting watching.no bugs new grils kocking for the boys783 lots on maines sides. 926 seams lot slower on fem proudction slo on males as well .maby i'am leaving fems on sides to long .great to see sun .plants are wondering what that yellow thing in the sky is.kleaze says now grow.