Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 16 Entries. Tuesday, April 26 View Page well season starts tonight been playing the weather game but this weekend looks promising to get last few things done started first batch of seeds others will be started in 3 to 4 days when i take these off the heat mat tonight i started the 275 vanhook thanks John the 1142 van kooten as a backup 1622 young thanks don 1333 young as backup and the 1236 harp 1350 starr as the backup next batch will have the 1544 revier 998 liggett and 1059 vincent-mcgill these 3 will have my 2010 seeds as backups   Monday, May 2 View Page started the rest of my seeds 1059 vincent-mcgill noticed tip was cracked when i sanded it so im crossing my fingers 1662 stelts 998 liggett 1544 revier 1483 werner my 218 ( 869 calai x 1191 northrup ) and my 423 (765 vanderpool x 1290 poirier ) and a 765 vanderpool   Monday, May 2 View Page update on the first seeds started the 1236 harp and 1622 young are the best plants 1142 vankooten and 1333 young are not far behind the 275 vanhook is tiny and the 1350 starr looks sick   Monday, May 2 View Page in a perfect world my line up will be 1622 1544 1236 998 275 1059 and the 1662 but only time will tell first batch of seed will go in the patch wednesday   Thursday, May 5 View Page the 275 and 1236 are in the patch the second round of seeds all up the 1059 sure surprised me but it looks good now   Wednesday, May 11 View Page well this year sure looks shot big flood Lucky no water in house but drive way washed out and only 2 of 5 plants are left i still have backups in the house but 12 in of mud is hard to plant in worst part is it got in both of are cars i new all of this rain would catch up Levey just got to soft good luck friends im going to try all i can nothing to loose   Sunday, May 15 View Page well after the flood my line up is 1236 harp looks great 1622 young i thought it was dead for sure but has perked back up the 1544 revier looks ok lost all of the other main plants so the 765 vanderpool my 218 and my 423 went in the patch   Sunday, June 26 View Page pollinated 1236 harp 12ft out with the 1622 young today the 1622 was pollinated 14ft out wednesday with the 1544 revier the 1544 first will be pollinated in about 3 days at 9ft and my 423 will be pollinated this week at 10ft side vines are still very slow growing smallest plant i have had this time of year but with this weather hail rain flood more hail im just glad to have plants   Friday, July 8 View Page the fun starts this is the 1236 every thing else still just getting started   Sunday, July 31 View Page well worst year weather wise i have seen rain rain hail now no rain and 90s every day did have a bad storm but that rain was just a drop in the hat nothing is what i wanted small plants and no real big gains but if i can keep one till weigh-off i should have a new pb learn more every year   Friday, September 2 View Page this is a stem pix for you tammy it has looked like this since early aug   Friday, September 2 View Page my 1236 harp around 594# hope it goes heavy   Friday, September 2 View Page this is the back, there is a blossom back under there you can tell it has 998 pukos in its genes   Friday, September 2 View Page my 1622 young thanks don great easy plant just got set back with the flood small plant its around 450 still some growth thumps like a rock cant wait to get them on the scales and get this year over both plants were dug out from under corn stalks and mud after 3 ft of water washed across the patch just glad to still have something to show for this year   Monday, September 19 View Page had a great time at bear wallow farm a new p.b 685 grew on the 1236 harp went 12%heavy the 1622 will go to chillicothe in oct   Tuesday, October 11 View Page the 1622 went 21% heavy ended up at 611 the year turned out much better than expected after the flood i thought it was over from the start 685# and 611# nothing big but both were better than my previous p.b. so another season comes to a end i think 1k is realistically im the future i have came a long way thanks to all the people on big pumpkins and a big thanks goes to don chad and john for fixing me up with my seeds