Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 128 Entries. Friday, May 1 View Page Well. Ive been reading your guy's diarys for years,so i think its time i start my own. Im an amateur but this year will be my year! Im growing in all 6 GPC categories and other giants. (One of which you guys might of never heard of ! ) ill get pics of that soon. So... Here's my not so good track record so far.. 973lb AG squash..never grown one 120.5 lb Watermelon (dont laugh ) 4.88 lb tomato Long gourd..never grown one Feild punk..never grown one Soooo. I shouldn't have a problem setting a new PB in all 6 categories.im just competing against myself for now !! Fun fun   Friday, May 1 View Page Hmmm. Now im wondering why the pic i added didnt show up. Let me try agin. Im doing this from my phone so i need to work the bugs out. Lol   Friday, May 1 View Page Sorry. Pics will be coming soon. I bought the premium membership because it said this..... NOTE: Grower Diary entries with images and Photo Gallery submissions are now automatically approved for Premium Members! But its not working like that yet. Hmmmm I'll just keep posting the pics I want and hope they are on here soon.   Friday, May 1 View Page So here's my AG line up that im hopping gets to go all the way in the patch. Im going for giant and orange! 1947.5 and 1317 clementz..(thanks Mark )..1399 Christensen..(thanks Darren )..1561 Reeb..(thanks Brian ) 100% seeds up with plenty of back up choices!   Friday, May 1 View Page This year im starting all AG 's directly in these 2 gallon bags of pro mix bx. Bottom heat mat till i saw sines of life,then killed the heat.Im warm watering with a little Neptunes seaweed. The roots won't be hindered at all till they hit the bottom or side's. The 1947 is an amazing specimen for 6 days since seed soaking. They are all doing amazing and i expect the growth to excel of course.lol   Friday, May 1 View Page The watermelons seem to love my poor mans lighting! All my plants do really. They are just daylight CFL bulbs from Menards, on splitters so 4 hang under a foil turky pan.lol... ill post a better pic of them. One of the melon plants has flowers and lots of side vines and very compact. I plan on bringing BIG plants to my patch. Im growing on rented land and cant set up heated cold frames or heat coils. Ill make it work !!!   Friday, May 1 View Page Here's a better look at the poor mans lights. I think i could grow a 5lb tomato with these 8 bulbs in this closet , ! If you doubt me...i might try it...once i have the room. !! Lol. Massive roots,small plant !!!!!!   Friday, May 1 View Page My goldfish in my pond decided to spawn. Now i have 3000 baby fish to care for, great timing since im not buzy at all. ! Lol   Friday, May 1 View Page So i suspended an AG seedling in one of the baby fish bins to help filter the water. Ill post pics of how it develops aquaponicly.! Lol   Saturday, May 2 View Page I Absolutely need to share this with you guys. To prove the resilience of a seed in the first sprouting stage..... I planted these two seeds at the same time. A 186 glasgow and a 109 glasgow. I really really wanted to grow the 109. I got impatient and started scratching at the soil of the 109 to check for growth. Well...i snapped the seed off from its 3 inch tap root. I shamed myself for a while then stuck the broken seed (with no root at all ) back in the dirt for some reason. I checked it a couple days later just because i was mad at myself. And it sprouted 4 tap roots right from the break! ! Not only did it grow...it has the biggest leaves from what was grown in that batch. !!!! And plant size the same or bigger. its the plant on the right in the pic. It makes me think of crazy ideas like snapping the first tap root so you get multiple main tap roots.hmmmm...not any crazier then grafting right !!! Lol. So cool...   Saturday, May 2 View Page 24 hours since the last pic.   Saturday, May 2 View Page Its cool seeing how the roots banch. Normally This is hidden in the soil,i wonder how far the plant can go with 95% of its roots under water. Hmmmm. I'll post a pic every 24 hours.   Sunday, May 3 View Page 24 hours later. Ill probably do weekly now so its not to boring!   Sunday, May 3 View Page Closer look at the branching !   Sunday, May 3 View Page Oops..no photo on that last post, my bad, this should be it.roots at 3 days !   Sunday, May 3 View Page This is the oldest melon plant. Its getting WAY big, i might re pot to a 3 or 5 gallon bag. Like i said before,im going to bring BIG plants to the patch instead of messing with cold frames.i think it will work .   Sunday, May 3 View Page This is the oldest melon plant. Its getting WAY big, i might re pot to a 3 or 5 gallon bag. Like i said before,im going to bring BIG plants to the patch instead of messing with cold frames.i think it will work .   Sunday, May 3 View Page This is 20lbs of pure meal worm poo. I raise insects for part of my living. I mostly have dubia roach poo. I know this poo has amazing nutrients but i dont know what. I used dubia poo to grow my 4.88 totomato in a container but dont know whats in it and whats not. Please email me if you have any info on insect poo. Im mostly concerned with the dubia roach poo,because i have a never ending supply! !!!   Tuesday, May 5 View Page Well. I seem to poison my AGs with to much light. They always have scrunched up first true leaves. But.. The 1399 Christensen seems to not care. Its going to out grow all the others pritty quick like. Its hard when the melons seem to like 24 hours of light but. The punks might only want 12. Hmmmm   Tuesday, May 5 View Page Oh. I should of said,the 1399 is in the middle of that last pic..   Friday, May 8 View Page Plants have been outside for two days now. Hoping to hit the patch with in a week. I finished adding boron and N today.should be good to go. I hope !!!!   Friday, May 8 View Page I'm going to be adding some potting mix to my mounds this year. It was on sale today so I filled my focus wagon to the roof.lol   Friday, May 8 View Page Here's more. Its master garden brand I think. It will give my starting mounds a fluffy mix so the roots can go crazy to get the plants going. I hope !   Friday, May 8 View Page I found a couple of these little yummys! I'm going to add them to the compost pile so the pumpkins can enjoy them!   Friday, May 15 View Page Finally got some time to post to my diary. I got squash, melon and AG's in yesterday. They are out in the elements, I'm a little nervous. But they have been outside for a week or so hardning off in their grow bags in so very cold temps . They can handle it. It sprinkled all last night but the plants seemed to like it. I warm watered them at time of planting with a little seaweed and tarantula to settle them in to their new homes. They aren't as big as I hoped at transplant time but it slowed them way down in the hardening off that I had to do. Wish them luck. I'll post close ups.   Friday, May 15 View Page 241 glasgow.. This plant is fat and bushy. I dug down kinda deep and mixed in pro mix and sand. I know melon roots dont seem to go deep but mine will. Lol. Or not..lol   Friday, May 15 View Page 186 glasgow.. Same mound treatment but master garden mix instead of pro mix. Oh..I should make note that I planted all the plants somewhat in their sides to get them on the ground and running as soon as possible,in the direction that I want them to go. Im in a very windy spot. I'm holding them in place with old weed stalks that I found near by. Free! Lol   Friday, May 15 View Page 109 glasgow. This seed grew the 241 glasgow that I'm also growing and I'll cross the two. also if you read the start of my diary ,this is the seed that I broke the tap root off of when it first started growing, it shit out 4 tap roots amazingly from the break. So we'll see how it dose compared to the other two. So 3 melon plants in the patch. I only have to top 120.5 so I'm exited to see what I can make happen.   Friday, May 15 View Page 1399 Christensen .. This plant ended up growing bigger and better then all the rest, not by much but enuff to make me think this plant has what it takes to make big things happen. We'll keep a close eye on it. From here on out all the planting mounds got the same treatment, I dug down into the hard pack and mixed in a shitload of potting mix to get the main root balls going. Some got pro mix others got master garden brand.   Friday, May 15 View Page 1947 clementz. I know all who is growing this seed is dreaming of a bright orange 2000lb beauty . I can't wait to see how the plant dose. It made it through my flawed seed starting prosses and the hardening off like a true champ. It will rock this year. I'm so sad that my 1317 didn't make the cut for MY,patch. Its leaves arnt forming right because I suck at starting seedlings . or somthing.it will do just fine but..it didn't make the cut.I'm holding it as a back up for now. It will see dirt no matter what, where??? I'm not sure yet,but there's a couple people that will be happy to grow it if I end up not needing it.   Friday, May 15 View Page 1561 Reeb .. What a beautiful fruit. Self pollinated and mega orange. So crossed with the 1399 or 1947,magic will happen.lol. as a side note I started two 1561's in the exact same flawed conditions. One looked great, the other had the deformed leaves like the 1317.hmmm I'd like to think that my flawed seedling starting technic is weeding out the week plants from the strong. If all the seedlings you start are in amazing optimal conditions it would be hard to tell the week from the adaptive and strong. I'm probably poopin in the wind on this just so I feel better.haaha   Friday, May 15 View Page 1821 Checkon .. Looks like an amazing fruit. Ill have to look more into it. Its a 1744 fulk x 1791 holland. It was the back up for the 1317.but the 1821 looked better and I'm honored to have it. It had a little leave scrunch but not nearly as bad as the 1317. So blam..it's in....!!   Friday, May 15 View Page Lol. My PB 973 plant. This could out grow all the big name plants here. !!! It knows the soil and the conditions from last year. It might just surprise me....and you....lol   Friday, May 15 View Page 659 Martin.. Squash. I didn't look into this seed and I'm not sure I would find records of what it came from,... But. When the Martin's make a cross on any plant, I'll grow it. Thanks Glen. Its my only squash plant so I might train it for two fruit.   Friday, May 15 View Page Now for the not so important stuff. Lol.Is there a GPC for giant morels!! I've picked 21 lbs so far with a little help from , mister eagle eye tom Soyer . AKA.. Toms raspberries on hwy 60 3 miles east of prairie du sac,wi. This guy gave me this spot to grow and loves every second of it. Stop out for an amazing variety of berries and pick your own pumpkin, squash and gourds... and From the moment you pull in you'll fell like faimliy. And you can check out my patch ! Lol and tell me what I'm doing wrong !!!! Yay   Friday, May 15 View Page The baby goldfish are getting bigger very slowly.lol. let's see if there's a difference from the last pic I posted of this bin.   Friday, May 15 View Page Here's the aquaponic plant trying to help the water conditions for these babies. You can only see a few of the roots because the water is so green. But that's how I want it for this batch. And this bach has some of the biggest babies. I still have about 2000 or so. I'm hatching brine shrimp daily still to keep them alive and growing. What a pain in my booty.but fun!!   Friday, May 15 View Page Sorry.I'm posting this same pick agin.. I now just looked and can't believe how big They've gotten since that last pic on May 1. I've had to feed these every 4 to 6 hours every day none stop.mosty live food. ( brine shrimp) So it was hard for me to see the growth happening with out this diary. So this is cool !!! I'll take another pic in 1 or 2 weeks!   Monday, July 6 View Page Finally got some size on my plants. This is the king of the patch. The 1399. I crossed the main vine punk with the 1561 and also the. same day a side vine with the 1561. Both on the 4th of July.I wanted to cross it with the 1317 but had no males. Note to self....don't bury everything....lol. But on the 5th I did cross one with the 1317. The way it's growing I could let it grow 4 fruits. I sooooo sadly had to pull the 1947... A micro burst from a bad storm crushed it and it never recovered.:( The only other small problem is..the main vine pollination had a large scar on the bottom of the punk that could cause problems later. That why I might let this plant grow a couple fruit.. .   Monday, July 6 View Page This is the 1317 x 1399. Pollinated on July 1st. It started slow but dubbled in size overnight! It's on a small plant only 7 or 8 foot out On the Maine but there is no more females Any time soon,so grow baby grow. Its going to be a B E A utiful fruit!!!!! But maybe not big.lol   Monday, July 6 View Page Ohh ,poopy cheese!!! The pic of the 1399 didn't post. Try Try agin!!!   Monday, July 6 View Page I got my tomatoes in where the 1947 was. from my 4.88. Do they look giant????. No..not yet. But..going for over 5 lbs this year so I hope they get a touch bigger!!   Monday, July 6 View Page I made a couple long gourd trellis like this ,the only problem is the plants are 3 inches tall.lol.doh!!!! Lol. Oh well this will be a test to see what they can do by October.!!   Monday, July 6 View Page Bigger always wins !!! This is my African bullfrog . he can eat 3 mice in 5 minuts.lol And that was a year ago. Ill see soon if he will eat 5.   Monday, July 6 View Page Bigger always wins !!! This is my African bullfrog . he can eat 3 mice in 5 minuts.lol And that was a year ago. Ill see soon if he will eat 5.   Wednesday, July 8 View Page Test your plant knolage!!! It's an oddity but what is it???   Friday, July 10 View Page Yup it is asparagus. But it's a crazy mutant giant flat stalk.I thought it would fool more of you.it's so thick and bushy now.   Friday, July 10 View Page Finally might have some good fast growing fruit for the first time in my life. The 1399 is not disappointing me. It was day 10 for the twins. They both are exactly the same but one is on the main and the other is on a secondary. So the pic is dap 6 of one of the twins. The rest of the plant has pollinations also. Some on vines that are being trained as new mains. I still might try 4 on this one.   Friday, July 10 View Page Crap. Correction on what I said. Its not day 10 for them ,its day 6. The twins pollinated on the 4th of July. The pic I took was from earlyer today.   Friday, July 10 View Page So,i still wanted to make note that I'll post a 10 day cc on the twins. And on their younger sisters when the day comes. So far the 1317 has the biggest fruit, but like I said before,it's a small plant and the fruit has a 4 day head start on the twins. Fun fun ,to see what will happen.!!! The pic is older of the 1399 but I try to add a pic if I can.   Saturday, July 11 View Page Heres the 1317 10 dap .I didn't measure it because I lost my tape. I bought a new one .I'll get a 15 day on it. The twins will quickly overcome her. but that's ok and I new it would happen. Its too close to the stump and the plant is small. But I still love it all the same!!!   Saturday, July 11 View Page I know you melon growers have seen the fast growth of these..but not me.lol. I've grown a 120 in a community garden but now it's time to kick that up a little. This pic is day 8, I know it's small,but it just took off!!!! So see next pic for 48 hours later...   Saturday, July 11 View Page So 48 hours an now this. My melon plants are so crappy looking I don't post pics of them. I'm trying get some size to the plants but it's slow going.   Saturday, July 11 View Page Note to self....take all pic horizontal for grow comparisons ..   Monday, July 13 View Page Happy birthday to me.lol...35yo. Day 8 on one of the twins,..1399.. Day 10 is going to be great! Ill post the measurements, And this plant has 5 fruit. The growth is fast and it starts the day after pollination....   Monday, July 13 View Page Heres the melon pic from yesterday. Its growing so fast I don't understand. The plant is just crap,,small,,in the weeds. But it just grows.   Tuesday, July 14 View Page So dap 10 on the twins, 28" cc . they took a day off from growing when I drenched them with cold water and then it stormed that night. But now their back in action. By far the biggest fruit at day 10,ever for me...on the 1399 This pic is twin one...   Tuesday, July 14 View Page This is twin 2, on the 1399. And the plant has 3 others growing also.   Tuesday, July 14 View Page So now dap 14 for the melon,but only 6 days since it was the size of a field mouse. And just tonight I dug the plant out of the weeds..   Thursday, July 30 View Page Ohhh poopy cheese. I haven't posted lately because of pumpkin depression.lol. I pulled the 1317 because it stopped growing, and that was expected because of the mosaic. BUT ......I also lost my favorite plant.the 1399. Sorry Darren. Its main vine leaves turned yellow and all fruit aborted. Prob svb or rot. I haven't looked yet. So only two AG's left. My 973 plant looks like it might loose it's stump. ( why not right) .lol. And the 1561. Still in good shape for the moment. Sooo this is a pick is my 973. It looks exactly like it's mother. Dap 20 60" cc. I'll try and keep it going.   Thursday, July 30 View Page This it dap 20 on the 1561 . 65" cc. Both this pic and the last one are from two days ago and they have been beefin up since then. Fingers crossed!   Thursday, July 30 View Page Don't get me wrong ....I'm not giving up , I'm just expecting the worst , there will probably be a hot air balloon crashed on my plants when I get there tomorrow, but ill just cut it up for shade covers.lol !!! Here's a pic of one of my slow slow melons..   Thursday, July 30 View Page Last thing. There is a bright side to my season. I have 12 tomato plants that all have large megablooms on their first trusses. They are opening nowish.. I've been vibrating them twice a day. So to make up for all my fails..I'll just grow a 10lb tomato. No big .right!!   Thursday, July 30 View Page You guys think you have it bad. I have Jerrasic park SVB's .   Thursday, July 30 View Page But still better then this. Lol I was kidding in that last photo. Them are my pets. Their much bigger now. !! Bigger is better!!!!   Thursday, July 30 View Page But still better then this. Lol I was kidding in that last photo. Them are my pets. Their much bigger now. !! Bigger is better!!!!   Thursday, July 30 View Page But still better then this. Lol I was kidding in that last photo. Them are my pets. Their much bigger now. !! Bigger is better!!!!   Thursday, July 30 View Page Note to self. Stop hitting the summit button like I'm on crack.   Thursday, July 30 View Page Oh. And... That last 3 pics of the same giant grub...it's real.not photo shopped. Its a Dynastes hercules larvae. Thats not even the biggest one I've seen.!!!! New GPC category??????   Thursday, July 30 View Page Here's what it turns into. If you didn't know.   Thursday, July 30 View Page And sadly ( but still great) this is what my grubs will turn into. Not as impressive, right...but. We can't get the giant harmless ones shipped into the US because we don't live in a free country. :( oh well. Sorry I'm off topic.but I Love Bugs....   Thursday, July 30 View Page I meant to say....I love giant harmless bugs.lol. like this atlas moth. A beautiful monster of the insect world...   Sunday, August 2 View Page So. 196 ott dap 25 on the 1561. My best fruit. And maybe soon ,my only fruit. Thanks Brian for the amazing hardy seed.   Sunday, August 2 View Page Darn .. Try agin...that's better.   Sunday, August 2 View Page Ok .... Got to post about another giant I'm into. You guys know what this is I would hope.lol just amazing!!!!   Sunday, August 2 View Page And this tooth.Spinosaurus. bigger then t-rex.!! You can see the battle in Jurassic park 3 .lol   Sunday, August 16 View Page This tom is growing like crazy. Its 15 " just 10 days growing. I think It will go over 6lbs.   Sunday, August 16 View Page INDOOR WINTER TOMATO CHALLENGE! Join in on the fun! Who has what it takes to grow a giant tomato inside your house? So Get some seeds started! Email me if your interested. If you need seeds I will send you some.   Tuesday, August 25 View Page Shit cakes. I haven't posted much because I'm not doing a very good job at growing. Bugs virus ,weeds, and a bunch of poo poo. But here's my tomato at 18 days since growth started.   Tuesday, August 25 View Page Here's the bottom view.   Tuesday, August 25 View Page Feild punk at 69" cc. Don't know if that's good or not. It's starting to flash some orange. It's my first one. So I'm happy.   Tuesday, August 25 View Page My only good melon, about 113. I need 121 for a PB.   Tuesday, August 25 View Page My little punk. Its so pritty. 530lbs today. Still growing with mosaic in it. Thanks Bryan for the seed. It is the only seed that could handle the extreme crap conditions in my patch. I plan to grow the 1561 agin next year,as my only AG plant but in a screenhouse. Its that good.   Tuesday, August 25 View Page Trying for a long gourd but they don't like me much.   Tuesday, August 25 View Page Last but not least , my tiland giant. This was a tiny plant I ordered on ebay late winter. Now the leaves are bigger the the hood of my car. And they keep getting bigger. I hope it flowers so I can get some seeds! Ill be happy to share   Sunday, September 20 View Page Just got back from Willy street! Wow it was fun! All great people and amazing growers. At the beginning of my diary I said I wanted to grow a new PB in all 6 categorys. I did well! I got a new PB in 5 categorys. Here's what I had up there. PB tomato 5.75 lbs.... PB feild punk 108 lbs.... PB squash 297 lbs lol.... PB long gourd 89 3/4".... PB melon 127 lbs... And my little giant punk won the Howard dill award. 721 lbs. Thanks agin Brian for the seed! (1561 Reeb). I coulnt be happier if I tried!!!!!! I'll post a few pics.   Sunday, September 20 View Page 5.75 official. Was 5.88 when I picked it but had to Chuck it in the fridge for a week. Grown from my own 4.88   Sunday, September 20 View Page Another pic of the trailer yesterday after successfully loading up!   Sunday, September 20 View Page Can't forget the tiland giant. !!! It is trying to flower so I might have seeds if anyone wants an over sized house plant! Lol   Sunday, September 20 View Page I want to thank Tom soyer for letting me grow on his land . he has a wonderful raspberry patch 3 miles east of prairie du sac on hwy 60.   Sunday, September 20 View Page Last thing .. When we pulled back into toms farm and started unstraping the trailer. An excited gentleman did U turn on the hwy.lol. to check out the fruit. I could tell by his amazement and questions that he's going to be a grower! . but..I didn't give him my contact info before he left. I did however tell him to come here to BP and told him to check out the diarys and everything. So Vince ( I think your name was) lol. Scroll to the top of my diary of you see this. And on the left is a button to email me. Shoot me an email and I'll help get you started. The best time to start for next year is RIGHT NOW! Lol. This reminds me of them lost connections personal adds.lol don't worry we don't have to date! Lol   Sunday, September 20 View Page Oh wow. I just noticed something that I forgot about,( check out my may 2nd post) that seed that I snapped the entire tap root off got me my new PB. I know it was still a small melon ,but hear me out quick.....I grew 3 plants all in the same conditions. All were not happy with my soil. Or my lack of melon knowledge. The vines grew so slow and the weeds got so bad that at some points it was hard to tell if a melon plant was even there. Doh! Anyway... that seed that I thought (fore sure) I killed .ended up having the best roots of them all. So call me crazy,but I might snap the seedling tap root next year at the 2 inch size to get multiple main tap roots going. Then I'll mulch for weeds and try to give them a soil that they like. Its probably a stupid idea..but...life is like a box of chocolates!   Thursday, October 8 View Page Thailand giant still getting bigger   Thursday, October 8 View Page It flowered also. So I should get plenty of seeds.   Thursday, October 8 View Page Here's my official 5.16 . took 1st place at Nekoosa. Yay!   Thursday, October 8 View Page The long gourd on the left fell and broke befor it's weigh off. So sad. But had lots of seeds and was still growing!   Thursday, October 8 View Page INDOOR WINTER TOMATO CHALLENGE! Join in on the fun and test your skills against yourself other growers. Ribbons for the top 3. Grow your plant any way you can think of as long as it's in your house.Email me to enter ! Feel free to start your seeds or clones any time now. My seeds should be popin any day now. If you need seeds I will send you some.   Friday, October 16 View Page Winter challange seedlings. 6 for 6 on my 5.75 seeds.   Friday, October 16 View Page I like when I get a seedling with more than two cotyledon leavs. It makes me think the main stalk will be fused and likely to crank out big fused blooms.   Friday, October 16 View Page Bad ass bulb I just got in the mail.to bad it's broken. Oh well. New one is on its way.   Friday, October 16 View Page Here's my bin ready for seedling!   Friday, October 16 View Page And my HID light ready to crank my light bill up! Lol   Friday, October 16 View Page Tea is brewing just waiting for the new plant to move in.   Friday, October 16 View Page Also. I brought my Thailand giant inside for the winter.lol. that's my mother taking shelter under its canopy. Its just too awesome to be put into words.lol . I had to take the picture vertically or theres no way it would fit in one shot.   Friday, October 16 View Page It hasn't stoped flowering. Can't wait to get some seedlings going.   Friday, October 16 View Page Lots of seed pods. Just waiting for them to pop open,then I have to immediately plant the seeds. No drying these ones.   Tuesday, October 20 View Page Sooo. Happy. I got my MH bulb in the mail today. To replace the broken one. Its glowing waaaaay! Bright! I got it set at 600watts about 36 " above the test plants. Let's see if they are still alive in the morning.lol   Saturday, October 24 View Page So the test plants survived the new light .so now the real plants are in! I planted two. The strongest one gets to stay. I put foam board over my bin to stop the wasted light from heating up and drying out my soil . also the light will now get reflected back up to the lights reflector and back to the plant , and the undersides of the leaves as well. I also set the light ballast to 200 watts and lowered it for now. No sense wasting so much power on plants that only take up 16 square inches each.lol. I'll crank up the power as they grow!   Saturday, October 24 View Page These are the two in battle for their new home.lol. I want to keep the one on the left because it's the plant that had three cotyledon leaves.and sure enuff , it shot out three true leaves as expected! I see a large mega bloom in its future,on it's first set of flowers,unless it splits into two main stalks soon. In that case I'll keep the one on the right! The pic qualley is crap because my camera can't handle the light.lol. let's hope the plants can!!!!!!!   Saturday, October 24 View Page I cut off the first seed pod from my Thailand giant, it looks slimy and funky.lol. but I think that's how they are supposed to look. Lol. It smelled sweet.not rotton. Just incase.. I cut off one that wasent as far gone and mixed the seeds,if they are seeds, it's hard to tell what's what on this weird ass plant. All I know is I NEED to get these things to sprout.!!!   Saturday, October 24 View Page Now I'm just soaking the seeds for 12 hours on a heat mat and then it's sprouting time. I was happy to see that most of the berry/seeds sank...that's good. I think! Lol I need to get these to grow. Just imagine sitting under a 6 foot leaf in the rain watching your garden grow well perfectly dry! Can't get better then that!   Saturday, October 31 View Page Oh poo. Looks like my first batch of thiland giants didn't sprout. Cry....I kinda new that there was no developed seeds.hmmm. A couple other random plants sprouted from the potting mix. Maybe I should grow them! Lol   Saturday, October 31 View Page My indoor tomatoes are on fire with growth! This pic is 6 days from the last pic. At first I saw some yellowing in the first true leaves, it might have been that the root balls were to wet for to long after the transplant into the new bin, but I also thought Mag deficiency so I sprayed with Epsom salt and a little fish. They haven't got any more water since the transplant and the next water they get will be from the bottom so the roots get down all the way. I'm happy,but now I have to decide which plant to keep. Hmmm. It will be hard to pull one. I think I will pull the one one the right and stick to my plan.   Saturday, October 31 View Page On a side note. I thought I would post a couple pics of my alum crystal generator I built. It grows giant high quality aluminium potassium sulfide crystals. So far so good anyway.lol   Saturday, October 31 View Page Here's a pic a little closer.and after I moved it to a different room. A stable temperature is the key to slow perfect growth.   Saturday, October 31 View Page Here's a close up the best that I could get. They are hard to photograph when they are moveing and turning, they are in a vortex of water to keep them growing clear and true. I'll post a pick when I harvest the big main crystal in a month or three.lol. fun fun   Thursday, November 5 View Page Indoor toms are growing fast. 4 days or so since the last pic,i thought I would post a pic of what they look like when the big light is off.the camera picks up the true color much better.   Thursday, November 5 View Page Sorry about the upsidown pic. I bet the rest of them I took tonight are also upsidown.sorry.Now it's choosing time. Doh! I wanted the one on the left but the one on the right is showing a giant megabloom . oh crap.. Time to cut one. Oh man this is hard.ahhhhhhhhhh let's see if this pic will be right side up. ?????   Thursday, November 5 View Page Darn. Im going try something with my stupid phone to get these up right. Sorry   Thursday, November 5 View Page Ok that didn't work.lol. Oh well..now down to ONE!!!!! I hope I made the right choice!   Thursday, November 5 View Page Just a test so the next pics will be up right.   Thursday, November 5 View Page Ok. Got the pic thing figured out.lol. Here's the keeper plant.I have a feeling that first megabloom might die off because the plant is so small. But we won't know for a couple weeks. I'm crossing my fingers!!!   Wednesday, November 11 View Page The ribbons are in! They look great !   Wednesday, November 11 View Page They messed up my color choice a bit but who really cares. I ordered the rosette to be red but no big deal. I went with the same colors for each but just changed the size.   Wednesday, November 11 View Page My plant is growing nicely. The bottom leaves are a little funky but I think I have it on the right track now. I switched it from the MH to the HPS bulb to flower. The plant is so small Im not sure if I want it to grow the megabloom that's developing, but I'm going to wait a bit and see what happens.   Wednesday, November 11 View Page Here's the bloom. Its a monster for this small of an indoor plant. I think It may not develop. But that might be for the best. But I'm going to let it try. Lol   Wednesday, November 18 View Page Things are happening fast.! Plant is growing well but not perfect. It seemed to not like the dramatic switch from the MH to the HPS. Now it is should be in flower mode. It's stretching out a bit but I expected that. The keeper bloom should open in 4 to 5 days.yay!!!! My bin is so big I've only watered twice since the plant went in. It will need water soon. I'm just trying to make the strong roots get to the bottom. Still not sure if this plant has what it takes to give me an indoor slammer!! Lol   Wednesday, November 18 View Page Here's the bloom!! It looks like a fatty triple so far. I can't wait to pollinate it. Even 1 gram will give me a new PB for indoor.lol. but that surely wont do for one of the ribbons. I think I'll have time to re set,or clone, and start over before the first day of spring. So you other guys in on the challange! Bring it! Lol It's all in fun fun!