Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 42 Entries. Tuesday, January 7 View Page my go-to juice   Monday, February 3 View Page Hope this come thru correctly as this is a second attempt at posting something from my phone. WAY TO GO HAAAAAWKZ   Monday, February 3 View Page Nope it didn't but I think you get the,point   Friday, February 28 View Page Time to flip the switch to GO. I have some pretty lofty goals this year and I am WAY better prepared to acheive them this season. The Orlando trip provided me with some VERY good information. Russ Landry,Phil Hunt John Vincent, Master yota (Ron Wallace) and my buddy Mark ClementZ. Thanks a TON!! and I mean a TON!!   Thursday, March 6 View Page Ok now I have a delema which 5 do I grow? 1725 Harp 2009 Wallace 1623.5 Wallace 1495 Stelts 1317 ClementZ (a lock) 996 Haist (sq) 1813 Northrup 1985 Miller 1409 Miller my 1103 Barker (semi lock) 1*** Young yes I know the size of it Man this just wont be an easy choice.   Wednesday, April 9 View Page A little dinner after the PNWGPG seminar with Russ Landry as our guest speaker. With Maurizio Camparmo, Robin Halbert, Me at the Power House Grill. in Puyallup   Thursday, April 10 View Page Ok I think I have figured out which seeds will be grown where. 1103 Barker 1168 Young 1623.5 Wallace 996 Haist 1495 Stelts 1317 ClementZ at my place To be co-grown at Stan Pughs place The 1725 Harp and 2009 Wallace   Saturday, May 24 View Page 2009 in the background. on the left the 1725 Harp on the right the 1317 ClementZ. Now the tough descission come between the 1725 Harp and the Clementz. as you can see the Clementz is scotting right along. But I gave up quite a lot to get the 1725 Harp and I have a second Clentz growing so sgtay tuned to see which one stays.   Sunday, May 25 View Page Well come Monday if the 1725 Harp hasnt pulled out of its flat vine state it will be adios. ):-(   Tuesday, May 27 View Page I have to give a BIG thank you to Robin Halbert today. I had a female open up today and other than selfing it(didn't want to do)I had no male pollen and he gave me some from his 1874 Mathison he is growing. It was a 5 lobe female roughly 13+ ft out.   Tuesday, May 27 View Page Well the 1725 lost out due to its flat vine issue that didnt look to be getting any better.   Sunday, June 1 View Page Pollinated my second pumpkin on my 1103 Barker plant today crossed into it the 1168 Young. 4 lobes.   Wednesday, June 11 View Page Pollinated 2 more flowers today 1 on the 1103 with the 1168 Young and one on the 1168 young with the 1495 Stelts. This makes 3 pollinations on the 1103 and 2 on the 1168   Sunday, June 22 View Page Pollinated the 1623.5 Wallace with 1495 Stelts nice 5 lobe at about 12 ft+ out. Also pollinated another on the 1103 Barker and used 1623 Wallace pollen. 4 lobe.   Wednesday, July 2 View Page I am predicting some great pumpkins coming from SkyWiZZy this year. Why you say ? Well mainly because as part of our Superbowl wager he will be naming his pumpkins from the players of the Superbowl Champion Seahawks and that in its self can only provide great results in the patch. I have been wondering tho when will we get to see the Seahawk tutu that you received in Orlando worn in the patch? Best of luck to ya my friend. Percy should be a fast grower for you   Thursday, July 31 View Page 1623.5 Wallace   Thursday, July 31 View Page Whoops the last pic was the 1317 T2   Monday, August 11 View Page 1317 ClementZ closing in on 800+ at 40 per day on a June 26 poll. Date.   Saturday, August 30 View Page The 2009 is no more she went down earlier this week.T2 is chuging along passed 1200# T1 right along the same. All others doing pretty well. I think overall this could be a good year for Washington and Oregon.   Thursday, September 11 View Page Breanas with here 1168 Young x 1495 Stelts kin   Thursday, September 11 View Page Thanks to brother in law Rick Perham and Brad Perham for helping to load the kin.   Wednesday, September 24 View Page Now you can see why Stand P.kin went 18% heavy. The front and back are 16in. Thick as show by the blade.   Wednesday, September 24 View Page Here's the blade pic. This is off the 1813 Northrup 4 those who didn't know.   Wednesday, September 24 View Page We crossed it with the 2009   Saturday, October 4 View Page Scott Holub with his WR squash   Thursday, October 16 View Page Breana with here 1333 B.Barker 1168 Young x 1495 Stelts.   Thursday, October 16 View Page Sorry for the sideways pic. I tried to rotate it but couldnt get it to work. there may be a few more like this. My 856 Barker which is off of my 1103 Barker x 1623.5 Wallace. It was also the HDA winner my first one ever.   Thursday, October 16 View Page Here is my brother and I's 1049 R &R Barker which was off the 1341 Pugh x 1495 Stelts it went 70+ lbs heavy and it was my second HDA winner. The 1341 is the 1730 Werner x 1495 Stelts. I may be growing this one next season.   Thursday, October 16 View Page Here is my 1317 Clentz kin .Now known as the 1250 Barker. 1317 Clementz x 1495 Stelts. No HDA here much to my surprise.   Thursday, October 16 View Page 1317 Clementz sorry Mark   Thursday, October 16 View Page My 1250 filled with beer for 3 days and set out to be tapped for mass consumption of pumpkin Beer at the Elysian Brewery Great Pumpkin Beer Fest.   Thursday, October 16 View Page Jim Sherwood and Jack La Rue trying to figure out how to work my camera phone. Hint this wasnt supposed to be a selfie of you two. and upside down too? LOL   Thursday, October 16 View Page My 1623.5 Wallace. It was both my biggest pumpkin and my biggest disappointment. It was DQ'd because of the size of the hole at bottom right. It wasnt into the cavity but it exceeded the 3in in depth and diameter. Was really bummed but rules are rules. So .................   Thursday, October 16 View Page So it is now the 1424.5 Barker dmg and a new PB. 1623.5 Wallace x 1495 Stelts. It made a BIG splash into the pool from 120+ feet in the air.   Thursday, October 16 View Page Scott Holub with his World record Squash. That thing was amazing.   Thursday, October 16 View Page Me with my 1133 Barker. 1495 Stelts x 1341 Pugh Took 5th at centraal Market.   Monday, November 3 View Page Ok I have had a few of my kins do this. here is my 1133 Barker 1495 Stelts x 1341 Pugh (1730 Werner x 1495 Stelts)the day of the weigh off. Then......................................   Monday, November 3 View Page .............While on display it did an impersonation of a sguash and went greenie on me. I only can think it was some sort of maturing thing but this is really weird. My buddy Stan Pughs 1609.5 did the same thing while on display at the fair it greened up. Perplexed as to what would cause them to do that.   Monday, November 3 View Page I will say they are good eats   Wednesday, November 19 View Page Well this last week end was the PNWGPG awards meeting and much to my surprise I got 2 awards one meant a whole lot to me and that was the sportsmanship award as voted by other growers. The other Charlie Brown's "oh good grief" award. My misfortune was for bringing a pumpkin down to a weigh off that ended up being judged as damaged and it being the biggest one I had grown. Darn the luck. So I won that one too   Tuesday, December 9 View Page Here is the final resting place of the 1424.5 Barker. It was dropped from 125 ft into the pool. If you look closely you can see the tape with my name on it.   Tuesday, December 23 View Page Get them while the last. Here is an opportunity to have some wonderful seeds! PNWGPG is offering a promo seed packet.Each pack is $85. With the purchase of a pack- a club membership is $5 off. Single membership is $20 and a family is $35. Sold on a first come - first served basis. Payment via PayPal is preferred. pnwgpg@yahoo.com Below is the lineup that we are offering. 1732.5 LaRue 1659 Miller x 1552.5 Sherwood 1649 Holland 1791 Holland x 1985 Miller 1609.5 Pugh 1813 Northrup x 2009 Wallace 19% heavy 1484.5 Tobeck 1623.5 Wallace x 1552.5 Sherwood 1471.5 Tobeck 1791 Holland x 1623.5 Wallace 1372.5 LaRue 1522.5 Sherwood x 1659 Miller 1348.5 Uhlmeyer 1985 Miller x 1409 Miller 1424.5 Barker dmg 1623.5 Wallace x 1495 Stelts 1250 Barker 1317 Clementz x 1495 Stelts 1223 Radich 2009 Wallace x self- grown in 290 Sq ft As a bonus- 5 out of the 15 packages will have a 1676.5 Daletas and or the 814 Radach 14 (811 Gerhart x 1495 Stelts HDA winner) seeds in them. There was an extremely low count in the 814.