Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 28 Entries. Monday, March 30 View Page The cloche is up and it's a balmy 80 degrees inside!!   Friday, April 10 View Page after 5 days in the 80 degree cloche the 943 Haist is looking good!   Monday, April 13 View Page about a week ahead of last year so far....hoping for June 15th. pollination. I have 4 plants in cloche now (2 pumpkins and 2 squash) and will pull 2 of them in the next month. So far the 943 Haist is outgrowing the 1014.5 Kuhn and my 751 is outgrowing the 2032x2009 cross but still too early to make a final decision.....loving the weather this week!!   Thursday, April 16 View Page chugging along....i'll give her a little fish fert. tonight...   Friday, April 17 View Page pulled the 2032x2009 cross so now I have the 2 squash and one kin left.....decisions, decisions....on a side note they got their first taste of fish fert, seaweed, and azos yesterday!   Monday, April 20 View Page down to the final two....one squash and one pumpkin!   Thursday, April 23 View Page chugging along, due for some more fish fert. etc. tonight!   Thursday, April 23 View Page This is a picture of my 751 that I grew last year. With its seed i'm hoping to break 1,000 this year. So far i'm about a week to 10 days ahead of last year and would love to pollinate in the first week of June!   Monday, April 27 View Page so far so good! On the weekends i'm able to maximize heat and humidity so she had a big weekend. I'd wager she'll be on the ground and running by May 7th.   Tuesday, April 28 View Page I love it when I can see big daily changes.....this plant is ready to take off! I think this is going to be a HUGE WEEK!!   Wednesday, April 29 View Page first foliar feed.....   Friday, May 1 View Page still about a week ahead of last year, hopefully with the warm weather expected over the next 7-10 days I can get her on the ground and running sooner than expected! At this point i'm glad i took down the 16x16 cloche because i'll be able to take down my pop up cloche in about 5 minutes and put it back up at night.   Monday, May 4 View Page Coming along nicely!!   Wednesday, May 6 View Page she can come down any time now.......   Thursday, May 7 View Page and we're off!!   Friday, May 8 View Page getting real leggy.....love this warm weather!!!   Monday, May 11 View Page she's going to run out of room quick at this rate.....time to modify the cloche....   Wednesday, May 13 View Page took a couple hours last night to make the cloche bigger...should be good for a week or two....   Friday, May 15 View Page time to start training these side vines!!   Monday, May 18 View Page Doesn't look like a great growing week ahead....happy with everything so far. I will pluck the little kin that's about 5 feet out...WAY TOO EARLY!   Tuesday, May 26 View Page as expected, the last week wasn't so hot....but this week looks awesome with temps in the 90's I'm expecting to have a 15 ft. triangle by June 1st. and hopefully can pollinate by the 10th. of June.   Friday, May 29 View Page We've had great weather this week and the plant is loving it! I have a pumpkin on the tip which should be ready to pollinate in about 7-10 days.....i'll have to give her some nutri-aid and couple other goodies this weekend and then coast out to pollination.   Monday, June 1 View Page hopefully pollinating this week! Cold and rainy the next few days but i'm not complaining, the side vines are still growing like crazy!   Wednesday, June 3 View Page slowed down with all this cold rain but back to sunny and 70 today so I'll take it!   Tuesday, June 9 View Page looks like tomorrow will be my first crack at a pollination.....the plant is finally coming out of a funk from that 3 day stretch of 40-50 degree temps   Wednesday, June 10 View Page 751 Beauch has been selfed.....now to see if she takes!   Monday, June 15 View Page second pollination will be tomorrow.....hard to say just yet if the first one took or not. About half of the side vines are dead ended as well as the main...need to get some length on the other vines as fast as possible to minimize SVB damage.....I still can't believe I let my wife talk me into organic giant pumpkin growing...we'll see!   Tuesday, June 23 View Page This is when I start to get excited about coming home after work and seeing the daily changes....