Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 13 Entries. Sunday, August 28 View Page Hello Everyone, This is an incredible Web Site. I appreciate the info and all it has to offer and to see what other people do with this crazyness of Giant Pumpkin Growing. My 9 yr old Daughter and I live in the Rural western Illinois area and are enjoying growing all types of Veggies, Strawberries, Blackberries, Rhubarb, Plums, Peaches, Pears Apples and yes........Pumpkins. I had a real bad problem with SVB's this spring and summer so I've got them wiped out and so here is what I've got growing and Pollinated as of the late 2nd week and 3rd week of August/11. If you see me doin something wrong please tell me....I will never claim to be an expert at nothin.....(Gets you into Trouble!!) I'm goin on yrs of experience in the civil engineering field of water and wastewater treatment and the Biological aspects of lab analysis with nitrogens and all kinds of neat emplimentary calcium types and Blah, Blah, Blah. You would be suprised (or maybe not) on how much knowledge can be transfered to growing plants and veggies to an optimum expecially the waste water side with all the nutrient breakdown thru digesters and detention times with fertilizers that surround our daily lives, hint, hint lol........Thanks and good luck to all!   Sunday, August 28 View Page Heres the Patch I have now after Batteling the SVB's. You can see my Digester/Feeding tubes to each dedicated vine. The patch looks small but its not. I've got a cram lens on the Cam. I think theres 9 Pumkins on Pallets   Sunday, August 28 View Page These are all Dill Atlantic Plants with no known pedigree. I got these seeds off of Amazon said to be premium seeds from 1000-1500 Pound Pumpkins lol. My daughter has named them all and this one at 5 days is Oval..   Sunday, August 28 View Page Wierd lookin "Henrietta" at 8 days   Sunday, August 28 View Page You can see the digester Feeding tubes in the patch. The sun heats these up great and helps quickly breakdown sugars and helps with the natural nitrogen numbers. They are perferated at the bottoms and filled with sugars, Calsiums, Nitrats (all Disolved solids type), Wine, Sunny D,(sowered) Sweet Horse Feed, Eggs and shells detergents, river moss, emulsified fish matter, emulsified goat manure and believe me much much more lol. I've exploded more than what I have growing because of too much heat growth. I can regulate the temp. at fermintation to the rate of how much food detention time is at the root base along with PH and sometimes I get greedy lol   Sunday, August 28 View Page This is Henry at 12 days. He measures 65" circumfrence, 42 side to side and 44 front to back. He just started to turn orange. They all get covered from the sun but Henry put on 8" from yesterday afternoon.I'll have too watch his intake lol   Sunday, August 28 View Page Like I said my 9 yr old Daughter has named all the pumpkins. We even have Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday, and Pugsley Addams and Lerch out in the patch lol..Here is Little Princess at 5 days, she is really starting to grow quick. She's my "Corn Syrup/Calcium Nitrate" expriment Pumkin.......   Sunday, August 28 View Page This is "Sugar" at 7 days. Should I have just culled this one? There were three too choose from on this vine, they were all the same shape and she is the one I went with because of her growth rate. OH well...we'll watch her and see what happens.   Sunday, August 28 View Page I know the frost will get me this year because its so late in the season getting Pumpkins on the vine but my Duaghter and I are having fun just doing and experimenting. She'll get a couple porch Pumkins I'm sure out of our Patch. Here's a pic oh her and one of her Fainting Goats..   Tuesday, August 30 View Page Hey.Its Rainin out. Has not rained here since the early part of June. I can here the Soy Beans soakin it up lol. Well heres a shot of Henery out the Kitchen window. I'll measure him later this evening. He hasn't gottin much taller but boy is he starting to get wide at day 14.   Sunday, September 4 View Page Oval is growing good, late but good compared to prior pic.   Sunday, September 4 View Page Henrys growing pretty good. He is at 76" circ, 48"x49" right around 120 pounds I think   Monday, September 5 View Page Daughter this mornin with Henry. She is very Proud of him.