Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 26 Entries. Thursday, May 9 View Page Planted my pumpkins today. At my house is the 1789 Wallace (thanks Pap and Ron), it had a small split in the seed coat and made the cots deformed. Looks like it is developing the normal leaves normally. I planted a Sherwood 1552.5 for a backup in case there something is wrong with the 1789. Thursday, May 9 View Page Also today I planted a 1634 Werner(left) and a 1799.5 Daletas (right) at another garden. Was going to plant more but my brother moved this spring so I lost where I was planning on planting most of them. Friday, June 7 View Page The 1789 Wallace on the left with the 1552.5 Sherwood on the right. I will prune the 1552.5 this week as the 1789 is doing well. The weather here went from 90 deg to frost and now no sun for two weeks. As soon as it warms up and the sun shines I sure they will take off. Friday, June 7 View Page This is the 1799.5 Daletas. It suffered from a light frost( not forecasted) but is coming back strong. Friday, June 7 View Page Here is two 207 Cantrell 2011. I had a hard time starting the watermelon seeds this year. I only started one seed of each total of 5. Only three sprouted, one did not look good. Tried to start some more but they failed. Next year I will start at least two of each I want to grow. Also will research how to start watermelon seeds more, must be different from pumpkins. Friday, June 7 View Page Some tomato's from Justin Lorson. Thank you. He not only sent me what I asked for but some other verities. Friday, June 7 View Page More tomato's Friday, June 7 View Page This is the picture of the watermelons. last post was the wrong image. Saturday, June 8 View Page Rose bush Sunday, July 14 View Page Last Wednesday we had a tornado come through town. Lucky no one was hurt but a lot of damage. http://www.sanduskyregister.com/gallery/4270461?page=0%2C2 My plant got some hail damage and some wind damage. A lot of leaves are cracked. I am trying to run some secondary's back to fill the area but had most of them dead headed so I have to run them 10 feet just to get to the damaged area. This is the plant at home that faired better. I don't have a picture of my other plant yet. Sunday, July 14 View Page Here is a picture of a house two door's down and across the street. Sunday, July 14 View Page Here is a overall picture of the plant. Sunday, July 14 View Page First pumpkin to set on the main July 8. Nice shape and long stem. By the way this is the 1789 Wallace. 16.5" in cic. this afternoon. Sunday, July 14 View Page Second pumpkin set on the main July 13. Will have another open about Wednesday. Will try to make a 1789 Wallace x 1799.5 Daletas cross. But the temps are going to be in the low 90's this week. Thursday, July 18 View Page My first pumpkin of the 1799.5. No problem I have two more set on it? Thursday, July 18 View Page This is the second one. Nice deer. Still have one more? Friday, July 19 View Page Picture of the last one. still having Internet problems from the storm. Friday, July 19 View Page Last one I had pollinated. I will try one more time but the storm and a mistake by me has taken a toll on the plant. Sunday, July 28 View Page DAP 28 on the 1789 Wallace 80.5 cc 52 ss 54 ee for a ott of 186.5 Was starting to pick up but dropped from 18-19 lbs. to 15-16 lbs. a day. It has been cloudy and cold for the last four days. Last night it got down to 51 deg. I cant rember it being so cold in July. The high today was 71. Will this cold weather slow the growth or is it loosing steam? Sunday, July 28 View Page Sorry last post should have been DAP 20. Pollenated on July 8th. Sunday, July 28 View Page Cull on the 1789 46.3 lbs. chart said 47.6 lbs. I culled it from the end of the first side vine two days ago. I set it because I was at the edge of the patch with the main and wanted to be sure to have one. Have one more on a side vine that about 10 lbs. I will cull it after the rain stops, we have had about 3" this weekend alone. Wednesday, August 7 View Page DAP 30 111.5-71-73 Ott 255.5 I just received my tissue test the major ones are good but the micro are bad. N 5.21, K 4.37, P .84, MG .48, S .37, CA 2.13 MICRO ZN 57 ppm, B 34.3 ppm, MN 33 ppm, FE 84 ppm, CU 20 ppm anyone have any suggestions e-mail me at [email protected] Ordered MicroTech CT 4-0-0 today but any advice would bee appreciated. Saturday, August 17 View Page DAP 40 136-84-87.5 307.5 ott. slowed the last 4 days since we have been having 40 deg. nights. went from 30-32 lbs a day to 18 lbs a day but last night went back up to 26 lbs. Caught two squash vine bores today will spray latter this evening with Bifen IT and in a couple days with merit. Sunday, August 25 View Page Day 48 148-89.25-95.25 ott 332.5. This is the end of the 1789. The weather turned cold and the weights slowed down, then on the Wednesday it was beautiful with the low in the 70's, and it gained 35 pounds that night. A split formed in a rib at a dill ring. The split went though last night. Sunday, August 25 View Page Here is the split. I put caulk on it this morning to see if I can at least get another 5.5" Ott to match last years pumpkin. Even with the cold weather it was still putting on 20 pounds a day over the last eight days. Should have made 1000 pounds easily as it was picking up not slowing down. Sunday, August 25 View Page Here is a side shot of the dill ring. I did not think that it was too bad. I would like to thank Pap and Ron for the seed, sorry I could not get it to the end of the season.