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Sunday, January 5 View Page lost the 638 the hole in the stem let the rot in unfortunately   Sunday, January 5 View Page the 1727 ansems looks like its just about stopped growing its hard to tape it with the cover on it and its got a cicumference i have trouble measuring as the covers in the road and the way its sitting but i think its about 400 inches   Sunday, January 5 View Page here is a clearer shot of the 1727 i got donna to take   Sunday, January 5 View Page the 1427 is all but done too it tapes 372 inches   Sunday, January 5 View Page the 450 is very ribby now and a nice looking pumpkin it tapes 348 inches   Sunday, January 5 View Page this is the butt on the 450 its real thick and the main runner is thicker than your arm again this year i used it as a back up plant so it was planted weeks later if i had more time it would be good to start it at the right time   Thursday, January 9 View Page the 450 before picking   Thursday, January 9 View Page well when we picked it it weighed the same as the parent 450 kgs whats the odds of that   Thursday, January 9 View Page this is the 1727 ansems i got it ready to pick and was pulling the vine away from it and noticed a hole down in where the flower end is its dry and healed up but it goes right into the pumpkin which is very dissapointing as this is the biggest one i know of in australia it tapes 419 inches and when i weighed it yesterday it weighed 684 kgs which is just over 1500 lbs now its off the vine it probably wont last to long any way this is donna standing behind it   Thursday, January 9 View Page here is donna   Thursday, January 9 View Page here is me   Thursday, January 9 View Page here is a side shot   Thursday, January 9 View Page this is the 1427 jarvis i usually seem to underestimate the taping the covers i have are to low but i tried to get it more accurate this time and its taping i think at least 390 inches it actually grew a bit more in the last day or so it might be because we had a bit of rain as i havent give them a drink for about a week   Thursday, January 9 View Page i forgot the picture   Thursday, January 9 View Page looks like the photos never made it will try again the 1727 with donna   Thursday, January 9 View Page with me   Thursday, January 9 View Page me again   Thursday, January 9 View Page the 450 in the patch   Thursday, January 9 View Page amazing how the seed came out of a 450 kg pumpkin and then grew another450 kg pumkin   Thursday, January 9 View Page this is the 1427 jarvis   Friday, January 10 View Page picked the 1427 jarvis today   Friday, January 10 View Page sorry wrong picture i am getting worser with these computers   Friday, January 10 View Page here is all three   Friday, January 10 View Page another shot of all three after taking the cover off the jarvis it ended up taping 403 inches and it weighed 601.5 kgs with the lifting straps so its weight would be right on 600 kgs as the straps weigh almost 1.5 kgs this one is my best hope for sydney royal easter show as at the moment it has no problems but the show is not till easter and a lot can go wrong between now and then because thats a long time to try to keep a pumpkin and hope it doesnt go off any way i am happy to grow one bigger than last year even though it ended up with a hole in it now the hard decision of what seed to order for next season we have a weigh off at kyogle on the 15th of february i think and it sounds like there will be a fair few big pumpkins there i am looking forward to it   Sunday, March 2 View Page a friend dropped this squash off to eat   Sunday, March 2 View Page cut it with a knife but an axe would have been easier   Thursday, September 18 View Page our spring has arrived and i feel i am a couple of weeks later than i would like to be but hope to have plants in patch in a couple of days   Thursday, September 18 View Page in the meantime went for a pig hunt up north in some very isolated country we saw no boats or other people all week the pigs really no how to dig and deep   Thursday, September 18 View Page one of the offenders   Thursday, September 18 View Page caught a barra one afternoon for a change   Thursday, September 18 View Page forgot the pic   Thursday, September 18 View Page going to grow 4 plants this year got some good seed some throwing their first true leaf now any extras i will plant at other end of bed as back ups and can pull out which ever is not needed hoping for a good season as their are a few extra growers around here now and we are having a weigh off at the end of january in kyogle we had one in march this year and every ones keen fo this season   Sunday, September 21 View Page remulched the beds yesterday put1 round bale of old soya bean on each bed except one as it had an extra bale of rice straw then put old partly rotted sugar cane over it all and then shovelled some composted material being chicken manure mixed with green waste from the tip over the top but only alight dressing   Sunday, September 21 View Page put the portable cattle yard panels up easiest way to make a windbreak just clip on a roll of shadecloth   Sunday, September 21 View Page put in a 1813 northrup yesterday   Sunday, September 21 View Page and also planted a 1666 holland   Sunday, October 12 View Page plants just starting to run   Sunday, October 12 View Page some seem to want to stand up rather than run   Sunday, October 26 View Page plants starting to grow seem to have a few problems this year like ribbon vines and bad kink in two of them this one is a 1381   Sunday, October 26 View Page obviously got that wrong   Sunday, October 26 View Page wrong again better see whats going on with computer   Sunday, October 26 View Page hopefully right this time   Sunday, October 26 View Page this one is a 1813 its ok but th back up at the other end of the bed is a squash its a little bit younger but much more vigour and greener any way got a while to make decision   Sunday, October 26 View Page here is the squash   Sunday, October 26 View Page this ones a 1666   Sunday, November 16 View Page decided to pull out the 1813 and kept the squash plant   Sunday, November 16 View Page this is hopefully set   Sunday, November 16 View Page this is the 1666 holland it sometimes has double leaves and extra tertiary vines coming off the main runner when it flowered it had two the same day   Sunday, November 16 View Page heres the two that flowered the same day   Sunday, November 16 View Page this is the 1248 kline i have one set i think i will keep it as it is getting late and i am behind last year but its only about 9 feet out from yhe stump   Sunday, November 16 View Page this plant is a 1522 sproule its spindly and not a lot of vigour but it is a bit to close to an avocado tree and a bit out of the sprinkler range i had a 1381 kenneally at the other end of this bed i was going to keep but we have had some very windy days and it snapped the main runner off i have used this one to pollinate the 1248 and 1666 as i think it would produce a nice cross as i would like to grow one or two of my own seeds next year   Sunday, November 16 View Page i did pollinate one on it   Sunday, November 23 View Page i think the squash is set its 11 days old   Sunday, November 23 View Page this is the 1522 sproule its also 11 days old and going pretty slow   Sunday, November 23 View Page this is the 1666 holland i cut off the malformed one and the other is starting to grow nicely   Sunday, November 23 View Page this is the 1248 kline its going ok its 19 days old the main runner got burnt off on a hot windy day i should have gave them more water but a bit busy nver had one this close to the butt will just have to see how it goes   Tuesday, December 2 View Page this is the 1666 stump with a right angle and a kink a little bit further out but it is going fine anyway   Tuesday, December 2 View Page heres another shot   Tuesday, December 2 View Page this is the fruit on the 1666 it taped 207 inches on day 20 which was testerday   Tuesday, December 2 View Page this is a holland squash seed it is 20 days today and taped 200 inches   Tuesday, December 2 View Page this is the 1248 kline at day 25 it taped 247 inches   Tuesday, December 2 View Page ths is the 1522 sproule it tapes 188 at day 20 being today it seems to be small and not much vigour   Friday, December 12 View Page time for an update this is the 1522 it taped 190 inches yesterday being day 30   Friday, December 12 View Page heres the 1248 it seems to want to lean over the blossom end or nosedive but is going ok it taped 306 inches on day 35   Friday, December 12 View Page the 1666 has a bit of a foaming stump a couple of days ago so iwent out about 3 feet and cut the vine and puuled it and the stump out it has a part of the vine about 5 feet back towards the stump from the pumpkin where the vine has got very round like a big knuckle i trimmed it up and covered it to keep dry but might have to cut most of main runner off if it deteriorates anyway it taped 306 inches on day 35   Friday, December 12 View Page this is the squash it is getting dark green speckles and stripes on it now never grown one of these will probably grow one next year i bought tthe squash seed package with the holub seed in it hopefully it will get through customs as sometimes they dont let them in or destroy them have to wait and see it was 286 inches on day 30   Friday, December 12 View Page this is micheal knight he lives five minutes up the road this is his pumpkin its seed came out of a pumpkin tidge grew last year it taped 326 inches on day 48   Sunday, December 21 View Page heres the 1666 holland main runner had to cut off 114 inches of main runner had bad soft spot going rotten   Sunday, December 21 View Page this shows the gap in the runner where i cut it off it was a nice big thick main runner   Sunday, December 21 View Page forgot the photo   Sunday, December 21 View Page the 1522 sprouleis growing very steady i tape them every 5 days and all the others vary a lot more in weight gain than this one on day 35 it taped 302 inches   Sunday, December 21 View Page the 1248 kline has a few shallow cracks appearing on the pumpkin between the ribs where the stem attatches hopefully they wont get any worse they appeared after some hot days one day it was 42 degrees celsius high humidity and no wind they all wilted a bit anyway it taped 353 on day 45 bit hard to tape with small shelter and shape of it   Sunday, December 21 View Page heres the 1666 even with its problems over the five days it put on 78 kgs on day 40 it taped 341 inches   Sunday, December 21 View Page this is what the 1666 lost   Sunday, December 21 View Page this is the squash its changing colours a lot getting lots of dark green appearing on it looks nice it taped 308 inches on day 35   Sunday, December 21 View Page this is micheal knights pumpkin it taped 355 on day 60