Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 16 Entries. Saturday, May 7 View Page My 2 favorites. 1540 Brownell and 1528 Starr.   Wednesday, May 25 View Page 1540 Brownell. So far, so good. Had to put up some shade cloth hoops since it's been 95+ all week! Plants seem to be handling the heat well though.   Monday, May 30 View Page Lay down already... You're killing me here...   Monday, May 30 View Page 1540 Brownell.... Down boy, down boy... Hope these guys lay down soon, it's stressing me out lol.   Monday, May 30 View Page Volunteer pumpkins. Letting them grow just for fun.   Monday, May 30 View Page SVB traps work!! Here is the first victim this season. Soooooo glad I bought one of these... May have to get some more now.   Thursday, June 9 View Page Volunteers, just for fun...   Thursday, June 9 View Page My little guy showing me how big they are.   Thursday, June 9 View Page Finally had some time to post some pictures. 1528 Starr, 9' long, working on getting some secondaries going. Suffered some wind damage about a week ago, so some leaves will have to get cut off this weekend.   Thursday, June 9 View Page This is my 1540 Brownell. It's at 7' long, with much larger leaves. It also suffered some heavy wind damage. The wind literally twisted the plant upside down after burying the main the same day. After the storm, the main had a split that appears to be just fine now. Hope it isn't a problem down the road.   Thursday, June 9 View Page Very exciting...   Sunday, July 3 View Page Pollinations so far for my records: 7/1/11: 1528 Starr X 1540 Brownell (Deformed 5 lober) 7/2/11: 1528 Starr X 1540 Brownell (Beautiful 5 lober) 7/3/11: 1540 Brownell X 1528 Starr (Perfect 5 lober)   Tuesday, July 5 View Page 1528 Starr X 1540 Brownell. 3 days old. Trying to slowly work it into position.   Tuesday, July 5 View Page 1540 Brownell X 1528 Starr. 2 days old. Perfect 90 degrees on this one.   Tuesday, July 5 View Page For my records: Pollinated 1528 Starr X 1540 Brownell on secondary.   Wednesday, July 6 View Page 4 more pollinations this morning 7/6/2011: --(3) 1528 Starr X Self (1 on main, 2 on secondary vines) --(1) 1528 Starr X 1540 Brownell (secondary vine) Grand total of 6 on this plant, should be plenty. Now I have to decide which ones to keep.