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Thursday, May 30
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First time AG grower. Growing Wallace seeds received as Christmas gift.
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Saturday, June 8
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9 days
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Friday, June 28
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A couple leaves folded in the storm the other day
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Saturday, June 29
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First female forming about 10� out!
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Sunday, June 30
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This morning�s storm with 35-40mph gusts wrecked shop. Leaves folded and split, mains turned upside down etc. Obviously I didn�t have it staked well enough. Trying the clothes hanger method and re-buried. Guess we�ll see...
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Wednesday, July 3
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Recovering from the storm damage. First male flower today!
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Sunday, July 7
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The female at 10� didn�t make it. There is another female forming about 15� on the main. Both plants are looking much better.
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Sunday, July 7
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The female at 10� didn�t make it. There is another female forming about 15� on the main. Both plants are looking much better.
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Sunday, July 7
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Pic this morning
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Sunday, July 14
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5 lobe opened at 15� on the biggest plant. Pollinated x self. Hope it takes with the hot weather we are having...
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Wednesday, July 17
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3 DAP 15� main vine. Will probably have 3 more open tomorrow on secondaries. It�s been very hot and humid so keeping fingers crossed.
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Wednesday, July 24
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Plant seems to be growing well and producing a lot more females. Currently 4 fruit, 2 on main and 2 on secondaries. All 10 DAP or less.
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Thursday, August 1
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So while trying to move the pumpkin to be more perpendicular to the vine this happened. It was hot and I was trying to go slow over several days but...yeah. Not sure if I should cut it off and move on. Disappointing since it was just starting to really expand.
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Thursday, August 1
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Pasted with sulfur and I guess I�ll wait and see for now.
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Monday, August 5
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Hail and wind...3rd time this year. As a 1st timer it has definitely been a learning experience that this is not as easy as some growers make it look!
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Friday, August 9
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Got home tonight and saw an SVB on a leaf. Used my sons bug net to catch it but it was weird, it wouldn�t fly but kept hopping. So I started checking every leaf and found 5 more in the patch. Killed them all but every one acted the same, maybe temperature related?
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Wednesday, August 21
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My biggest of the year so far OTT 165. Had to cut a borer out of the vine about 5� before the pumpkin. Growing slow but the vine has healed pretty well.
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Thursday, August 22
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My backup pumpkin growing on the first secondary. Much rounder shape, and its growing faster than the bigger one on the main. OTT 132
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Friday, August 30
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The smaller pumpkin around 80lb started rotting on the bottom so I cut it and applied Captan to hopefully safe it for display. The larger one seems to be doing well, OTT of 228! I�m very happy about the shape and color, just hoping it makes it!
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Friday, September 13
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The smaller pumpkin I tried to save rotted. The big one is now the only one left. OTT of 249 and looking solid!
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Wednesday, October 9
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Me and my assistant with our first AG that took 10th place at the Anoka Weigh Off! Ok...there were only 10 entries but still a great experience! Thanks to everyone who helped me and welcomed me at the weighoff. Final OTT 267.5, Final weight 475lb!
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JMP - 2019 Grower Diary 
