Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 30 Entries. Sunday, April 22 View Page Will try to post first diary; My seeds will be 772 poirior;and 993 vincent mcgill; 904 stelts and one more 772 poirior;hopefully they will germinate   Monday, April 23 View Page This is my first diary photo.   Monday, April 23 View Page Got these two to germinate; What would happen if I crossed these two?   Tuesday, April 24 View Page this is the 772 plant 1; I got it to germinate in 2 days; Thanx to Thad Starr, he said his technique in germinating old seeds, was 100%; he was right   Tuesday, April 24 View Page This is my 772 poirior plant 2; used the Thadd Starr germination also for this one ;came up no problems   Friday, May 11 View Page Will a week and a half has gone by; so far so good Only thing my patch is surrounded with gophers! this is the 993 vincent mcgill   Friday, May 11 View Page Here is the 904 stelts going slow; but goin; it needs somethin, maybe some better weather.   Friday, May 11 View Page Here is the numero one 772 poiier plant;its doin better than the 904 stelts and the 993 vm, so far its my biggest plant   Friday, May 11 View Page Her is my numero two 772 poirier plant; I just got through watering in some rootshield; they liked it   Saturday, June 2 View Page Here is my 772 poirier plant #1 its about 7.5 ft long doing good;it has a little sunburn, but will put some shade up.   Saturday, June 2 View Page Here is my 904 stelts; cant figure this plant out? grows and stops; It must be a gemini plant; it has 2 different personalites?   Saturday, June 2 View Page Here is my 993 vincent mcgill; its about 5 ft long its starting to go now, slowwww.   Saturday, June 2 View Page Here is my other 772 poirier number 2; this one is goin good; it might even beat all those napa guys in halfmoon bay;   Wednesday, June 13 View Page Here is the first pollination on the number 1; 772; I sibbed it with my other 772 poirier plant; about 11 ft ,a nice 5 lober.I have another female at 12.5 ft.   Wednesday, June 13 View Page Here is plant number 2 772 poirier; its around 12 feet long I have a female on the tip of this one.nice healthy plant so far.   Wednesday, June 13 View Page Here is the 993 Vincent mcgill; THIS PLANT IS GOING SLOW! But it is going its around 7.5 feet long; still have alot of time to win at halfmoon bay?   Wednesday, June 13 View Page Here is my last plant the 904 stelts. I dont know about this one, maybe it will catch up with the other plants its around 7 feet long today   Monday, June 18 View Page Here is a picture of one of my 772 ; it caught some kind of a monkey virus on the main vine; Per Don Young; he said to put some 35% peroxide on it; thanx DON   Monday, June 18 View Page Her is my other 772; so far so good should have another pollination in 2 or 3 days   Saturday, July 28 View Page Hi, the weather is strange over here to, hot cold? Here is my 772 poirior sibbed to my other 772 poirior ~ about 350lbs , hopefully I can put way more weight on her and get more of an orange color   Saturday, July 28 View Page Here is my other 772 poirior sibbed to the other 772; they look a little different not much, this one is ~ 150 plus lbs; lot of time left before halfmoon bay   Sunday, July 29 View Page this is my ~100lb 993 vincent mcgill; I have it on a side vine, I couldnt get a female on the main vine? It looks like it may be a nice orange I crossed it with a 904 stelts.   Sunday, July 29 View Page this is my ~ 175lb 904 stelts, it is a bit white looken but its turning orange? no yellow, this pumpkin is a little lopsided, are the other 904 stelts look like this one? this 904 stelts is crossed with a 772 poirior   Wednesday, August 8 View Page this is my 993 vincent mcgill I crossed it with a 904 stelts? this one is just over 200lbs 92 cc; hopefully it will gain another 1000lbs?   Wednesday, August 8 View Page Here is this 904 stelts growen slowwww; I crossed it with a 772 poirier cc is 103, about 275lbs   Wednesday, August 8 View Page Here is one of the 772 poirior sibbed; not alot of orange? I dont see any of the orange 772 character,in this plant 110cc about 329lbs   Tuesday, October 9 View Page Here is one of my 772 poirior sib pumpkins; Where is the orange? ott 346 about 700 lbs   Tuesday, October 9 View Page Here is my 904 stelts that is crossed with my 772 poirior this is an evening picture; ott is 286 about 520 lbs. it might surprise me next year!   Sunday, October 14 View Page this is my other 772 poirior sibbed pumpkin;I took it to usegui farms;its not put in correctly in the weigh results   Sunday, October 14 View Page this is my 993 vincent mcgill; did not have room in my truck to take it to usegui farms this one is crossed with my 904 stelts;this cross sounds familiar?