Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 29 Entries. Thursday, April 24 View Page ok here we go again I was not sure I was going to grow this year but I have just finished my tunnel not massive but should do one maybe two smallish plants 35ft by 15ft im going to start a few seeds off tomorrow April 25th (the anniversary of my mothers death ) I always start on this day if I can im going with mainly European seeds I think 1222 wursching ,1391 wursching ,1271warner, 1266 jany backups are 1293 wild ,1177 horde, 1386 boonen herman, 735 puchner   Monday, April 28 View Page tunnel almost finished seeds are all sown and tucked up in propagator forecast frosts this weekend so I am glad I have stalled a little this year this new ground and not grown a pkn on it before so I hope its ok   Monday, April 28 View Page I have added some ammonia and also potash and I added about 50# of home made biochar that I added to my wormeries last October to try to get it loaded and inoculated it with mycorr and other nutrients I have also added a bit of polyhalite K2Ca2Mg(SO4)4·2H2O time shall tell if I have over done things   Wednesday, May 7 View Page planted out 6 pkn today in my new tunnel this will eventually be culled to 3 then maybe only one plant depending on what grows the best the 1391 looks about the best so far the 1222 looks a bit deformed in the cots and first leaf time will tell if it sorts its self out in the next few leaves if not its gone   Wednesday, May 7 View Page marrows sown tonight my 77 and 86 and Thomas 70.1 hollinrake 95 and bohnert 63.9   Thursday, May 8 View Page a couple of my kins enjoying their first day in the soil   Thursday, May 8 View Page I have made some temp covers for the still cool nights using kerosene heater in each mini tunnel to try to help   Thursday, May 8 View Page this was my answer to the hot days a windup side seems to work pretty good   Thursday, May 8 View Page and when not so hot its covers down   Sunday, May 18 View Page pkn are settling in now and hope to see some real growth in the next few day   Sunday, May 18 View Page all plants seem ok a couple seem to be liking the heat a little more than others   Sunday, May 18 View Page all six plants are ok not decided what will stay or be culled yet I shall decide when they start to vine out and touch down   Tuesday, July 1 View Page first pollination today on the 735 puchner at 20 feet male is of my 1391 wursching also pollenated my first marrow in the tunnel its 86 carter sibbed   Wednesday, July 9 View Page finally got a female opens on the 1391 I had one about 2 weeks ago but no male where there to pollenate with this is a nice 5 lobe pollenated with five males off the same plant so its a 1391 x self   Wednesday, July 9 View Page managed to get plenty of pollen on to her before it got tied up for the day   Wednesday, July 30 View Page blew my biggest marrow today oh well not to worry   Wednesday, July 30 View Page on a brighter note my 1391 dap 20 ss51 ee50 cc69 ott 170 going ok and not to shabby for me   Tuesday, August 5 View Page so far so good dap25 211 ott   Tuesday, August 5 View Page dap 25 on my 1391 really filling the tunnel up now   Tuesday, August 19 View Page day 40 on the 1391 ott 300 so just at 600 # not massive by some growers standards but im hoping to break my pb this year of 798# if it keeps going as it is I should be good its done an average of 24.45 # per day for the last 20 days and starting to look up to its given name of fugly   Tuesday, August 26 View Page still growing a little over 700# skin still very fresh no netting but cooler nights are slowing it down some   Tuesday, August 26 View Page I cant really fault this plant so far its been a dream to grow   Tuesday, August 26 View Page skin still nice and soft no netting   Thursday, October 23 View Page here is my pkn for this year I named her fugly right from the start and she really surprised me and turned out to be a beauty   Thursday, October 23 View Page final est weight was 1154#   Thursday, October 23 View Page this has been a blast to grow not one problem along the way   Thursday, October 23 View Page I just hope she goes to chart and not to light   Monday, October 27 View Page official weight 1024#   Tuesday, October 28 View Page fugly carved out