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Saturday, January 7 View Page well looks like its going to be hard to pick lineup lol here is what i have to work with 1236 harp was a nice plant last year 1159 richards i have 2 985 werner hard to beat 901 hunt goes heavy 1566 rodonis enuff said 1306 jutras very under planted 1634 werner grew some monsters that got away 1059 vincent mcgill hard to beat killer color and i still want a 1210 or 1331 van hook willing to trade a good seed for one to many seeds to pick from   Saturday, January 7 View Page and a bubble from pap is on its way i know one of them seeds will see dirt   Tuesday, January 17 View Page First bubble of the year made it Thanks John and James hope i can grow it big   Saturday, January 21 View Page Got a 1331 van hook in the mail today looks like my line up its starting to come together thanks for the seed dan   Sunday, January 22 View Page now i have a 1560 urena in the mix for this years line up i think this cross has some real potential   Saturday, January 28 View Page Pic of my 658 weighed in ky 1236 harp x 1622 young Thanks for the pic Fred   Sunday, February 5 View Page a pair of 1647 wallace seeds made it to my mail box this one is seeing dirt for sure looks like i will plant the 1647 1303 sweet 1560 urena 1210 van hook and 1331 van hook but a 6th plant could sneak in the line up   Sunday, February 5 View Page i have some good older genetics if something does not sprout such as a 985 werner 1306 jutras 805 pukos hope i dont need them   Sunday, April 29 View Page got 2 291 kents growing 2 251 cantrells and 2 165b cantrells started my 685 a 1647 wallace 1303 sweet 1306 jutras 1210 vanhook and 1634 werner tonight plan on growing 4 mellons and 4 kins   Saturday, May 5 View Page all plants are up the 1210 is the best looking so far and was the first up   Thursday, May 10 View Page 1210 vanhook 1303 sweet and my 685 made it in the patch tonight a week later than planed but it has been to wet to do anything other plants will go in sat   Tuesday, May 29 View Page ok here is what i got all plants are behind as always and lost some plants and had to go with back ups 1303 sweet looks fine 1210 van hook looks like it will flat vine 1647 wallace slow growing my 685 looks good and i planted a 275 van hook that has cought up with the older plants lost all melons just like last year   Sunday, June 17 View Page plants are at 5ft now i cut the first set of side vines off tonight hopeing this will speed up the main vine growth tonight we got a much needed rain first rain in 5 weeks that amounted to anything plants look great hope they pick up soon   Wednesday, June 20 View Page rain sure helped things my 685 and the 1303 sweet are both over 7ft now looking like a early july pollination can happen now that plants are growing over 8in a night the 275 van hook is at 6ft but picking the pace up pulled the 1210 it had some weird growth going on so 3 plants left more than enuff to keep up on with the back issues i have been having   Wednesday, June 20 View Page 275 van hook   Wednesday, June 20 View Page 1303 sweet   Wednesday, June 20 View Page my 685 Drum 1236 harp x 1622 young   Sunday, June 24 View Page 275 8.5ft catching up quick   Sunday, June 24 View Page 1303 sweet at 9.5 and my 685 at 10ft all plants filling in nice alot of growth the last 4 days patch tilled and snow fence moved   Monday, July 2 View Page 1303 x self at 11ft today 3 lobe   Wednesday, July 4 View Page pollinated a 275 vanhook x 1303 sweet 4 lober at 10.5 ft going to be hot today got the ice bottles ready and also coverd with cooler   Thursday, July 5 View Page pollinated 275 x 1303 on the 4th today it was 1303 x 275 and my 685 x self and its only going to be 99 out today   Friday, July 6 View Page its hot hot hot and i hope pollinations take   Sunday, July 8 View Page 275 with 2 pollinated   Sunday, July 8 View Page 1303 with 2 pollinated   Sunday, July 8 View Page my 685 1 pollinated on main no more showing on the main side vine pollination around thursday lost some leaves to sun burn this week and all pollinations were made during the heat wave so crossing my fingers   Wednesday, July 11 View Page 1303 x self at day 9 25.5 cc tonight this will be my keeper if all is well sat the next set on this plant was a deformed 5 lobe so it looks like i will be growing a 3 lober   Thursday, July 12 View Page day 10 on the 1303 30cc going to cull other sets this weekend   Saturday, July 14 View Page this 3 lober is he keeper on my 1303 this is day 12 started the cut on the other set on this plant i do have a 4 day old set i will keep for a few more days this is picking up the pace fast 40 cc today   Saturday, July 14 View Page day 9 on my 685 hope it takes seems to be growing   Saturday, July 14 View Page day 8 on the 275 first pollination was deformed and was not fillig out right hope this takes got 2 others on side vines just for insurance this has been a great easy plant and took the heat better than the others   Monday, July 16 View Page my 14 on the 1303 it makes my others look little its been the best early grower i have had 124 ott today will tape on day 20 next   Friday, July 20 View Page day 17 for the 1303 166ott and we got rain today !!!!!!!!!!!!   Sunday, July 22 View Page day 20 for the 1303 196 ott or 169 lb this has been right at 20lb a day the last 6 days hope she takes off soon like to see 25-30 for about 3 weeks hope to take this to ky 15th if all goes well   Sunday, July 29 View Page now that i know day 1 is day after set here is a pic of the 1303 sweet day 26 353 lb mid 20s and slowing going up good grower slow and steady hope she hangs on everything else lost the battle with the heat   Friday, August 10 View Page looks like season is over for me pumpkin was still doing 22lb a day end of last week taped monday it was down to 14lb a day from monday to friday zero i can not figure this out every year they stop or slow to a crawl first part of aug or day 30 to 35 any help growing friends i love this hobby and cant walk away but it sucks having this problem every year plant still looks good no issues with it i had a real shot at a good one with this kin final ott was 299   Monday, August 13 View Page pulled the 1303 tonight it had split on the bottom after setting it on good flat ground it taped 620 lb not to bad considering it quit around day 33 it was a bad year all around with the heat this was the only plant i could get a set on but it was fun this was the first year i had a kin grow over 20lb a day this was over 20 from day 14 till the end im sure the split was due to ground not being level think im going to give most of the patch a rest and try 4 or 5 melons next year   Saturday, December 1 View Page time for spring out of tags now   Saturday, December 1 View Page deer tags full come on spring