Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 97 Entries. Tuesday, February 7 View Page This is a friends pumpkin in NSW taping about 1200 pounds. Growing slow now.   Tuesday, February 7 View Page This is his other pumpkin taping a little over 1000 pounds, still growing ok. It does have a split near the stem but doesn't go into the cavity.   Tuesday, February 7 View Page This is my biggest pumpkin grown off the 754 Dill-Mac. Taping 726 pounds on Day 51, has put on 74 pounds in the last 5 days.   Wednesday, February 8 View Page This is my 1124 Reid. The plant was the best plant that I have ever had. When the pumpkin was about 20 days old I noticed the main vine had a soft spot on it 1 inch long. It was 4 ft before the pumpkin, I havn't had a vine do that before. It is taping just under 500 pounds still putting on 6 pounds a day.I think it will go heavy. Because of the rottern vine the pumpkin is only been fed by 150 sq ft of plant.It was crossed with the 754 Dill-Mac my biggest pumpkin.   Wednesday, February 8 View Page This is my 1318 Picketts it is tapping 450 pounds, it's not growing much anymore. This plant was started late because my first 1318 died.This plant is small so is the main vine.   Wednesday, February 8 View Page This is another photo of my friends 1200 est pumpkin. He doesn't know what seed grew this pumpkin.   Thursday, February 9 View Page This is me with my giant marrow on the scales, It weighed 20.3 kgs (44.7 pounds) It is a new Austrlian record. The old record was 16 kgs. It was grown off store bought seeds with no breeding. It's the first time i have grown giant marrows, next year I would like to try some with breeding behind them.   Thursday, February 9 View Page We just received 8 inches of rain ( hail ) in just 2 hours, i hope the pumpkins will be ok.   Friday, February 10 View Page This is a patch on my biggest pumpkin. You might be able to see the small cracks and small bruises from the hail. I hope it will be ok. 1 foot of water through my main patch at the moment, i hope it will run off soon.   Friday, February 10 View Page Another photo of the small splits in the skin.   Friday, February 10 View Page This is the 754 taping 770 pounds today with water all around it. I hope my plants will be ok, last year (Feb 5th ) when we had a flood i lost all my plants. Floodwater has gone down 4 inches today.   Sunday, February 12 View Page Most of the water has gone now but ground still waterlogged.   Tuesday, February 14 View Page This is photo of my long gourd it's 1 foot long. I'm not sure when it was pollinated. It's a store brought seed, with no breeding. This is the first time that i have grown long gourds, will try some with breeding next year. Plant is struggling due to the wet ground.   Wednesday, February 15 View Page None of my pumpkins have grown in the last 2 days because of the wet ground.   Friday, February 17 View Page Got another 1 1/2 inches of rain last night.   Wednesday, February 22 View Page Most of the pumpkin plants died. No growth for over a week now. Will cut all the biggest pumpkins off tomorrow.   Monday, February 27 View Page Lifting the 754 Dill-Mac into the trailer to take it to be offically weighed. Taping 365 kg hasn't grown any in the last 2 weeks because of the flood.   Monday, February 27 View Page This one weighed 180.5 kg grown off the 1081 Leonzi. 22 % heavy. This pumpkin was only 40 days old. When i cut it open the walls were 13 inches thick !!! I wasn't going to grow this one but the plant looked nice so i kept it.   Monday, February 27 View Page This one weighed 220 kg grown off the 1318 Picketts. This plant was very small 100 sq ft, it was planted late as the other 1318 died early on.   Tuesday, February 28 View Page The 754 Dill-Mac weighed 385.1 kg. New Victorian state record, beating the old record by 128 kg. About 5 % heavy Who knows how big this one would have got as it was still putting on 15 pounds a day when the rain came.   Wednesday, February 29 View Page The main newspaper in Victoria somehow found out about the giant marrow and the big pumpkin. They came out today to do a story, they also did some video footage. They were here for over 4 hours. They took lots of photos.   Wednesday, February 29 View Page The 385 kg pumpkin was grown off about 250 sq ft, as this patch is narrow only 13 ft wide. It started as a double vine, at 6 ft out i cut the end off as most of the side vines were normal. It was grown about 14 ft from the stump.   Thursday, March 1 View Page It was on the front page!! I can't belive it. This is my nephew Nathan he is almost 2 years old.   Thursday, March 1 View Page The phone's started ringing at 6:00 am and didn't stop till 8:30 pm. 3 film crews came out to shot some film for the news. Radio stations from all around Australia wanted me on. What a day !!   Tuesday, March 27 View Page This is the 2nd biggest pumpkin i got weighed grown off the 1124 Reid 244 kg about 1 % heavy . I loved this plant was the best plant that i have ever had.   Sunday, August 12 View Page I'm doing a little early planting experiment this year, with 4 plants. 2 will be grown in a greenhouse and 2 will start in the greenhouse, and when they start to vine they will be trained outside. I'm starting them 5 weeks earlier than I have ever started seeds before. The theory is to try and get a pollination about 25-30 days before the longest day. More sunlight bigger pumpkin ??????   Sunday, August 12 View Page This is my early marrow plant, with hay around it to try to keep the ground warmer. The marrow is from my 20.3 kg marrow. Plant is about 10 days old.   Sunday, August 12 View Page Started my 4 early pumpkin seeds today they are, 813 Wuershing (1605 X 1468 ) and the 1544 Reiver (1385 X 1161 ) and the 1425 Reiver ( 985 X 1161 ) and my 849 ( 385 kg ) ( 754 Dill- Mac X 1318 Picketts )   Thursday, August 16 View Page Other giant vegies, I have going are : 1 giant onion seedling, 1 giant beetroot seedling ( thanks DutchBrad for the seeds ) 2 X 3.23 lbs Marley Tomatoes and 5 X giant radish seedlings ( The biggest seedling in the photo ) The radishes are too early, but it's just for fun. The competition radishes will be planted in Dec.   Thursday, August 16 View Page All seeds were breaking dirt this morning.   Saturday, August 18 View Page This is the 813 today, it's so far my best seedling. All 4 seedling are going well. I trasplanted the 813 today into a bigger pot. I will trasplant the 1544 and my 849 tomorrow into bigger pots. The pots are made of cardboard, once the plants are ready to be put in the ground. I can take the cardboard off without disurbing the roots at all. The 1425 seed started in the big pot already, so no need to transplant yet.   Saturday, August 25 View Page Planted the 1544 Reiver into the greenhouse today.   Sunday, September 2 View Page Started 3 more seeds today the 825 Mckarchuck ( Squash ), the 89 Shymanski (squash ) and the 754 Dill- Mac.   Monday, September 3 View Page Planted the 813 Wuershing into the other end of the greenhouse today. Only 2 plants will be grown in the greenhouse.   Monday, September 3 View Page Here is my birthday cake, that my sister made. As you can see the giant pumpkins, a greenhouse, giant tomatoes, giant marrows and a few other vegies to the right of the greenhouse. BEST CAKE THAT I HAVE EVER HAD !!!   Monday, September 3 View Page Another photo of the cake. It was a shame to eat it, but it did taste nice.   Monday, September 3 View Page A part of the cake, you can see a pumpkin and some vines and leaves.   Monday, September 3 View Page A part of the cake, you can see a pumpkin, some vines and some leaves.   Thursday, September 13 View Page This is the 813 looks like it might be a double vine or a ribbon vine. If it's a ribbon it will be pulled, if it's a double vine, it will be given a chance. As my 385 kg pumpkin was grown off a double vine.   Thursday, September 13 View Page This is the 1425, so far the biggest plant of the 3. The 1544 is going ok, just a little slower than the other 2.   Thursday, September 13 View Page This is the 1425 so far it's my biggest plant of the 3. The 1544 is going ok, just a little slower than the other 2.   Thursday, September 13 View Page This is the 1425 so far it's my biggest plant of the 3. The 1544 is going ok, just a little slower than the other 2.   Thursday, September 13 View Page I started 6 seeds today they are 957 Wursten (1421 X self ), 1536 Marsh (1180 X 1161 ) 1342 Marsh ( 1674 X 1810 ) I don't think that this seed will germinate as the seed tip is broken due to the travel to Australia. I really liked this seed. my 484 ( 220 kg ) (1318 X 1124 ) and 907 Wagler ( 924 X 1098 ) and the 710 Wagler ( 1789 X 1723 ) The best 4 will go into the new patch at my sister's house. This patch will never flood, and is drier than my main patch. My main patch is still too wet to work the ground. Hopefully it dries up soon, so that I can get it ready.   Friday, September 14 View Page Had another inch of rain today, to add to the wettest winter we have had on record. So far we have had 2 inches more rain for the year, than our yearly average of 34 inches and still got 3 and a half months to go.   Friday, September 21 View Page Started 12 pumpkin seeds today.   Monday, October 1 View Page This the patch at my sister's house, will transplant the 4 pumpkin seedlings tomorrow. Patch is wetter than it looks, almost got bogged with the tractor twice.   Tuesday, October 2 View Page Transplanted 4 pumpkin plants into the patch today. 957 Wursten (1421 X self ), 710 Wagler ( 1789 X 1723 ) 1326 Hooker ( 991 X 1136 ) and my 205 (2010) Also planted 1 of my 44.6 (20.3 kg ) marrow seedlings.   Monday, October 15 View Page We had very strong winds today, lost 1 plant the 957 Wursten. Snapped off at the ground, will start another 1 tonight.   Tuesday, October 16 View Page Tried to work up the main patch today got bogged, a couple of times. Was able to get enough worked up to get some plants into the ground.   Tuesday, October 16 View Page Other giant veggies I have going are : 825 Mckarchuck Squash great plant main vine about 2.5 ft. 57 Shymanski Field pumpkin main vine about 1 ft long. 70.5 Wursten Marrow, main vine about 3 ft. 3 LG's 93 Houck, 122 Wursten and a 1?? Surma, all just starting to vine. 1 Watermelon just germinated, 172 Marsh. 2 Giant beetroot (Wursten ) and a few other beets. 2 Giant Kohlrabi. 1 Heavy Gourd plant. 8 giant tomatoe plants, 2 X 1.8 lbs Knight, 5 X 2.2 lbs Atyeo, 1 X 3.23 Marley. I did have more till 1 night snails wiped out 20 plants overnight. We have lots of snails here. and 1 tall ameranth plant. Will start giant corn, sunflowers, long beans, radishs, in given time. This will be the first year I have grown most of these giant vegies, so this year will be a learning curve for me. I know having all these plants will mean lots and lots of work, but i'm a sucker for punishment.   Wednesday, October 17 View Page The next 3 are my early start plants. This is the 813 is plant is a double vine. I will let it grow out to about 6 ft then dehead the main vine and use the biggest strongest side vine. Main vine is 1.2 metres long. ( 4 ft ) Main vine is growing about 14 cm ( almost 6 inches ) a day. yesterday.   Wednesday, October 17 View Page This is the 1544 Reiver ( A ) Was a little slow to get going, main about 80 cm long.   Wednesday, October 17 View Page This is the 1425 Reiver, I like this plant. Main is about 80 cm long.   Wednesday, October 17 View Page This is the 70.5 Wursten marrow plant. ( Thanks Brad for the seeds )   Wednesday, October 17 View Page This is the best plant at the patch at my sister's house. Which is my 205.   Wednesday, October 17 View Page This is the 2nd best plant in the patch at my sister's house. It is the 710 Wagler. ( It is better than the photo shows ) I really like this plant.   Wednesday, October 17 View Page These next photo's are the plants in the main patch so far. Were transplanted into the main patch today. Yes the plants should have been transplanted a week ago, but the ground was too wet. This is the 1789 Wallace. Nice plant.   Wednesday, October 17 View Page This is the 1723 Marshall, does have a deformed leaf but all the rest are ok.   Wednesday, October 17 View Page This is the 1338 Mcconkie. ( Thanks Matt for the seed ) I love this plant !!!!   Wednesday, October 17 View Page This is the 1088 Nieuwenhoff.   Monday, October 29 View Page This is the 1544 Reiver A This is my best plant. The main vine is about 9 ft long, with 2 little females at the tip. I plan to have as set on it by mid-late Nov at the latest. Thwe main vine was growing in slightly the wrong direction, now it's growing right.   Monday, October 29 View Page This is the 813 The main has now been deheaded, because it was a double vine. Will use the best side vine as the new main. 3 good ones to choose from. Main vine was about 7 ft long before it was cut.   Monday, October 29 View Page This is the best plant at my sister's house. It's my 205 (93 kg ) I have high hopes for this one as this seed always grows them big for me.   Monday, October 29 View Page This is the 710 Wagler at my sister's house will start to vine soon. I really like this plant.   Monday, October 29 View Page This my 366 (166 kg est 2012 205 Mccauley X 1142 Surma ) One of my best plants, I wasn't planning on growing this one in the main patch but it was such a good seedling.   Monday, October 29 View Page This is the 479 West (1622 X 1460 ) I like this cross, so given it a chance.   Monday, October 29 View Page This is the 1674 Marsh (1488 X 1544 ) I like this plant, will be used as a pollintor.   Monday, October 29 View Page This is a list of the plants in the main patch so far. 1789 Wallace, 1723 Marshall, 1674 Marsh, 1657 Bryson, 1544 Reiver B , 1338 Mcconkie, 1142 Surma, 1088 Nieuwenhoff, 710 Wagler B, 479 West, my 366 (166 kg )   Monday, October 29 View Page A few more to be trasplanted into the ground in the next few days are the : 1640 Wolf, 1600 Mcconkie, 1464 Hooker, 1124 Reid, 1143 Wolf, 825 Mckarchuck SQ, My 849 (385.1 kg ) 754 Dill-Mac.   Monday, October 29 View Page All the poor doing plants with good genetics will/have been put in another patch just incase I want to use them as pollinators. So far in this patch is the 1536 Marsh, (now looks ok ) 1342 Marsh it was amazing this one actally germinated but never really got going, 101 Shymanski I love this cross, 1154 Hooker (1725 X 1161 ), My 538 (244.1 kg ) nice plant but will see how it goes in this patch this year, 132 Shymanski SQ, I kind of wished I had planted it into the main patch.   Monday, October 29 View Page This is a Sugarbeet I just pulled out of the garden, it was the only one I have ever grown. It weighed 17.4 kg 38.3 lbs on the bathroom scales, not sure if thats big or not for a sugarbeet.   Tuesday, November 13 View Page Time for an update, I'm growing twice as many giant pumpkins than I have ever grown before. I must be PUMPKIN CRAZY !! Most of my plants are 2 weeks behind last year due to the colder than normal weather.   Tuesday, November 13 View Page I have 3 at my sister's house. My 205 has a main vine 4 ft long, very good plant so far. 1326 Hooker has a main vine 2.5 ft long, plant is average. And the photo is the 710 Wagler, main vine about 2 ft great plant huge thick vine.   Tuesday, November 13 View Page I have 2 in the greenhouse, they were early starts. 1544 Reiver covers about 80 sq ft main vine is about 17 ft long now. For some reason nome of the male or female flowers have opened. I have never had that happen before. The 2nd plant is the 813 Wuershing the new main is 4 ft long. The 813 plant covers about 100 sq ft. The other early start was the 1425 Reiver, main vine is 9 ft long, and plant covers 60 sq ft. I will be pollinating a female on this plant in a week. Photo is the 813.   Tuesday, November 13 View Page This is the 815 Wittmann, nice plant 1 of the youngest plants. This year when I plant the seedling I dig around the plants then put straw out of the calf pens aroung the plants to hopefully stop most of the weeds.   Friday, November 16 View Page This is the 1723 Marshall today, main vine a little over 2 ft.   Friday, November 16 View Page Since I can't get the photo's to load for some reason, When I can I will post pics. I will just list the plants I have and how they are going. In the main patch I have : 710 Wagler ( A ) great plant, huge thick main vine, main vine about 2.5 ft 2nd best plant in the patch at the moment. 1789 Wallace ok plant, main vine about 2.5 ft. 1338 Mcconkie nice plant, main vine about 3 ft long. 1142 Surma, plant is average main vine is about 3 ft. My 366 plant is the best plant in the patch at the moment main vine is huge and is about 5 ft long. The 1674 Marsh and the 1657 Bryson both are ok without being great both have main vines about 1 ft long. The soil; around these two plants is wetter than the rest of the patch. 1464 Hooker is ok main vine about 2 ft. 1088 Nieuwenhoff plant is great main vine is about 5 ft. 479 West plant is good with main vine about 2 ft. my 849 plant started slow but now is going good, main vine about 4 ft long. AThese are the youngest plants, they will be starting to vine within the next week. 1203 Hooker, 1426 Wolf, 1436 Wolf, 148 Wagler, 172 Wagler, my 536, 1640 Wolf, 1002 Kline, 1124, 738 Wagler, 1124 Reid, 1143 Wolf, 986 Wolf and the 754 Dill-Mac. I also have 3 others but might be culled within the next week. Each plant will be allowed about 450 sq ft, but the better growing plants will be allowed more and the poorer plants will be given less.   Friday, November 16 View Page Also have a genetics patch where all the poor plants with good genetics go, these plants will have to fend for themselves, the only thing they will be given is water. I may use some as pollinators. The plants in this patch are 101 Shymanski, 1536 Marsh (now is a great plant with main vine 4 ft long ), 772 Wagler, 711 Wuershing, 940 Berard, 1342 Marsh ( lucky to be alive ) 496 Wagler, 132 Shymanski ( kind of wish I put this in the main patch ) and the 89 Shymanski.   Friday, November 30 View Page Today we had the hottest November day on record 39.5 C ( 103 F ) I did have 3-4 young leaves burn on most plants due to the change of weather. The week before the temps were in the 23 C - 26 C range (73-78 F ) then all of a sudden a very hot day. It souldn't knock the plants too much.   Friday, November 30 View Page Another burnt leaf, it was hot and humid.   Saturday, December 1 View Page This is my first foal I have ever bred,she was born today. I know this isn't pumpkin related yet but in given time it's name will be giant pumpkin related.   Tuesday, December 25 View Page Merry Christmas. Time for some updates, I got a new camera for christmas.   Tuesday, December 25 View Page This is what happened to most of the young leaves, on the hot day. I think the leaves got hit hard due to the temps being cool the few days before the heat.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page This pumpkin is the 1425 Reiver 39 days old Est 145kg. Since the 39 C ( 102 F ) day, and only got down to 27 C (80 F )at night 3 days ago this pumpkin has only put on 8 kg. Before this hot day it was putting on 7 kg/day. I hope it keeps growing.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page This is the 813 Wuershing 35 days old Est 143 kg. Was putting on 11-12 kg/ day before the hot day, now putting on only 6 kg/day. I hope it picks up the pace again.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page This is the 1544 Reiver 38 days old Est 100 kg, has always been a slow grower, it will go very heavy to the charts. I will most likely cut this one off on the 19 th January to take to a local show.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page This is my big tomato it's about 1.3 kg, not sure how much more it will grow. It is grown off a tomato called BRAG.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page This is my only Field pumpkin. ( 57 Shymanski ) 17 days old. Sunflowers are about 1 ft tall. Tall corn, germinated a few days ago. Lg's are starting to take off now. Giant beetroots are looking good.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page This is the 70.5 Wursten marrow, plant isn't as good as my one last year. I started 2 of my 20.3 kg marrow seeds a couple of weeks ago, they should start to run in about a week or so.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page This is my 366 pumpkin is 10 days old. 366 X 710 Wagler (1789 X 1723 ) This was my best plant till something ate the main vine tip off, so this is on a side vine. Plant about 300 sq ft.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page This is the 825 Mckarchuck ( squash ), it's 11 days old crossed with the 89 Shymanski. This plant is one of the best plants I have ever grown, big and trouble free. Plant is about 400 sq ft, will let it grow to about 600 sq ft.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page This is the 1002 Kline crossed with the 1789 Wallace. Pumpkin is 10 days old. This plant started very slow, and I was going to pull it, but then it started to take off. Main vine tip, and some of the side vine tips got burnt on the hot day. Plant is about 150 sq ft.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page This is the 1338 Mcconkie 15 days old. Crossed with the 710 Wagler, 10 ft out on the main vine. Plant is about 200 sq ft.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page This is the 1789 X 1640 Wolf 4 days old, grown on a side vine due to a black cockatoo eating the main vine off before any pumpkins. Also pollinated 1 today, also cross the 1640. I also lost half of the side vine tips on the hot day. Plant is about 200 sq ft.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page This is the 1464 Hooker X 1088 9 days old. I like this plant, but did lost the main vine tip, and some of the side vine tips on the hot day.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page This is some of my main patch.   Wednesday, December 26 View Page Another view of some of the patch. The calf straw/hay is working well to slow the weeds. It's the first year I have tried it. This photo is before I buried the vines. I haven't buried many vines, in the last week or so due to the work on the farm. It will take me a while to bury all the vines. ( over 30 plants, I KNOW I'M CRAZY ) I won't grow this many next year. I normally grow 10-15.