Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 22 Entries. Sunday, July 10 View Page http://crazy-growers.de/showthread.php?3496-B%F6nnsches-K%FCrbistagebuch-2016&p=78007&viewfull=1#post78007 I´ll had to cut my fisrt choosen keeper, because of lack of growth, but the next one has allready started.   Sunday, July 31 View Page OTT increase per day (metric)   Wednesday, August 3 View Page DAP 30   Saturday, August 13 View Page It starts growing slow as the fruit I´ve cut for this.   Tuesday, August 16 View Page DAP 43   Wednesday, August 17 View Page The globe beside has 15 cm diameter, still slow growth.   Wednesday, August 17 View Page Surprisingly I found my 1710 Stevens/hopkins 15 x 939 Karkos 15 with pale orange stripes, while it had no color so far. DAP 42   Wednesday, August 31 View Page a new German record 2552 Gramm (metric) => 5,63 lbs   Wednesday, September 7 View Page DAP 65   Saturday, September 24 View Page DAP 82 I´ve decided to give it a sunbath each day untill harvest on October 7th.   Tuesday, September 27 View Page DP 85 coloring up proceeds every day...   Saturday, October 1 View Page The color looks so different, depending on daytime, light and point of view...   Tuesday, October 4 View Page Late afternoon seems to be the best time for pictures only three days untill harvest.   Wednesday, October 5 View Page Once in a lifetime picture: Arrived to my garden when the late afternoon sun was shining on the pumpkin for a few minutes. DAP 93 OTT 881 cm ( 420 kg EST) sounds really light   Friday, October 7 View Page Harvest has begun. Allready pulled the kin on the pallet   Friday, October 7 View Page ...pulled the pallet on a motorcycle trailer. ready to go for the European Championship in Ludwigsburg.   Friday, October 7 View Page I´ve prepared a sign with change able numbers for sunday and did some fun calculating about Mathias pumpkin: 493" => 2147 lbs His 2,095.5 Willemijns 16 weighted in Lohmar was 18% over chart from his own OTT measurement. 2147 x 1.18 => 2533,5 just a joke so far ;-D   Saturday, October 8 View Page The Beauty and the beast? Arrived to Ludwigsburg after a four hours ride. Mathias and Bruno arrived a few minutes later.   Sunday, October 9 View Page My personal European championship hattrick: Three times there three times HDAW   Sunday, October 16 View Page back to Ludwigsburg for carving contest: Pure sun the whole day, some nice competitors and crowds of visitors.   Thursday, December 1 View Page The cherry tree beside the pumpkin patch in my allotment garden has to leave because of lack of leafes and decreasing fruit harvest   Wednesday, December 28 View Page More space and light for the following pumkins