Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 25 Entries. Saturday, July 22 View Page Finally done growing plant and burying vines so figured I would get a diary started. This is the 2145A x 2145B. Growth has been slow on this one. Day 30 today and it really needs to kick into gear. This was not a good year for early pollinations as our weather has been terrible.   Saturday, July 22 View Page This is the 2230 x 2145 at day 26 and this ones has potential to be special. We will see but it has kicked into high gear early.   Saturday, July 22 View Page My 1724 x 2145 and growth is good. It appears to have a bad lobe so the measurements wont mean much. Day 28 today   Saturday, July 22 View Page 2145 B x 2145 A (sib) at Day 20. Probably the best shape out of all the pumpkins. Late pollination because of some shape issues on the first one and the cold weather we had. Day 20 numbers are excellent but they always are when you pollinate late. Thanks Qtip for the plant, I will do my best with it.   Saturday, July 22 View Page 1533.5 Kline x Self at Day 20. Great plant to grow, no issues yet.   Saturday, July 22 View Page 318 Kent x Self is growing nicely. Tough decision between two on this one, went with the big fat one. Hopefully it was the right decision.   Saturday, July 22 View Page 208 Steil x Sibb growing well. This one is just starting to pick up the pace now. It hasn't rained here in about 20 days so it is hard to get enough water on the raised beds.   Saturday, July 22 View Page Two 270 Kent Plants. Not really sure what I am doing here but I will be pollinating something over the next week. Will Sibb these also.   Saturday, July 22 View Page Moved my Long Gourds to a new location this year to avoid disease. Appears to be working so far. The 107.25 Scherber is on the Left and the 89 Hefner is on the Right. My 128 Steil seeds went bad this winter and would not germinate so I was in a bind but Qtip came through with these plants. Thanks again. They are neck and neck racing to the top.   Monday, August 7 View Page 4.97 Steil grown off the 4.63 Qualley x Open 24.25 CC. Started ripening a little early but was an good grower.   Monday, August 7 View Page 2230 Wallace D42 so far I like everything about this one. Record cold last Wednesday and the nights in the 40's slowed everything down some but, oh well.   Monday, August 7 View Page The 1724.5 Steil is doing well also at D44.   Monday, August 7 View Page 2145A at Day 16. I cut off the original fruit at D36 because it had a plumbing issue and was slowing down and pollinated this one X my other 2145. This one is growing extremely fast with the giant plant behind it. Probably will lose the stump on this one eventually unless it make record gains soon.   Monday, August 7 View Page The greenhouse shot. 1724.5, 2230 and 2145A in that order.   Monday, August 7 View Page 2145B which is an outside plant at D36. Making good gains despite the weather. We did get an inch of rain finally and they didn't blow up.   Monday, August 7 View Page 1533 Kline is doing well, matching the pace of the 2145B plant next to it. If it keeps this up another 10 days we will have something. I have two long vines growing off this plant which I am going to pollinate with my best two pumpkins.   Monday, August 21 View Page 1533 Kline x Self day 50 still plugging along pretty well. We have had better squash growing weather than pumpkin growing weather this last month.   Monday, August 21 View Page 1533 Kline x 2145B plant. This is my best 2145 and should make and interesting cross.   Monday, August 21 View Page 1533 Kline x 2230.5 Wallace   Tuesday, September 19 View Page The 1533 is starting to show its age and it all but done growing it seems. OTT should be about 390 but I am not measuring anymore.   Tuesday, September 19 View Page 1533 x 2145 is doing well and starting to grow nicely. Still young but should yield seeds at day 34 today.   Tuesday, September 19 View Page 1533 x 2230 is growing faster than the other one and is two days younger at Day 32.   Tuesday, September 19 View Page 2145b x 2145a at Day 78 and should be about 415 OTT I would guess. I will measure one more time at Day 80.   Tuesday, September 19 View Page 17245.5 Steil x 2145 at Day 86 should be about 424 inches, plant is still healthy.   Tuesday, September 19 View Page 2230 x 2145 at day 84 should be about 436 inches. This one still has the perfect shape.