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Friday, April 6
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First entry of the 2018 season. I put my greenhouses together and got them in place last night to start warming the soil. Now we just need some sun and warm weather! Good luck to everyone this season.
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Wednesday, April 18
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Here's the line up for this year. Started 7 seeds on 4/11.
All came up and are under the lights. I plan to grow 5 of them. I think I'm going to try growing a squash for the first time this year.
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Wednesday, April 18
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And another season begins................
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Tuesday, May 29
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I haven't posted anything in a while. Took down the greenhouses this past weekend and the wind fences are up.
All four pumpkin plants are growing at about the same rate. All are around 7 feet or so. This is the 2363 Holland.
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Tuesday, May 29
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The 1944 Connolly
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Tuesday, May 29
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The 2066 Geddes
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Tuesday, May 29
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The 2269 Paton
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Tuesday, May 29
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This is a first for me- the 2118 Jutras squash. This one is a little behind in growth compared to the pumpkins.
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Tuesday, May 29
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View of the patch. The 5 plants will share about 4,500sf of space.
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Tuesday, May 29
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We have had so much fun with the long gourds the past couple years we decided to enlarge and increase the length and height of our trellis. We now have 12 1/2 feet from the top to the ground.
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Tuesday, May 29
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Side view
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Tuesday, May 29
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Two of the LG plants.
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Tuesday, May 29
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The other two LG's.
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Monday, June 4
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Lots of males open this morning and a couple females around 8-10 feet. None will be keepers, too early and the plants are still too small. It is amazing how much the plants have grown in the past week. This is the 2363 Holland.
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Monday, June 4
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1944 Connolly
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Monday, June 4
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2066 Geddes
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Monday, June 4
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2269 Paton
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Monday, June 4
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2118 Jutras
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Monday, June 11
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2363
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Monday, June 11
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1944
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Monday, June 11
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2066
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Monday, June 11
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2269
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Monday, June 11
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2118
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Monday, June 11
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LG's
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Monday, June 11
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View of the patch.
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Wednesday, June 20
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Pollinated females on 6/16 on the 2363, the 1944 & the 2066.
All at about 12 feet. This is from the 1944.
All three of these plants seem to be on the exact same growth schedule. All of them had another female open this morning at about 14 feet.
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Wednesday, June 20
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Pollinated one on the 2269 & the 2118 at about 12 feet on 6/19. The 2269 has another one at about 15 feet that will open in another day or two. Hopefully I'll have a keeper set on all my plants within the next day or two.
All things being equal, I'd rather go with the pumpkins that are around the 14 - 15 foot range, but we'll have to see how things develop as the pumpkins I've set hopefully start to grow.
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Thursday, July 5
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Looks like I've got keepers set on all the plants.
This is the 2269 Paton plant, day 13
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Thursday, July 5
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The 2066 Geddes, day 15
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Thursday, July 5
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The 1944 Connolly, day 15
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Thursday, July 5
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2363 Holland, day 15.
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Thursday, July 5
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2118 Jutras, day 10
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Thursday, July 5
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2118 Jutras Plant
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Thursday, July 5
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2363 Plant.
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Thursday, July 5
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View of the patch. Everything is filling in nicely. The plants have been growing like crazy with all this heat this past week.
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Tuesday, July 10
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Day 18 for the 2269. This one has been a little slow getting going.
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Tuesday, July 10
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2118 squash - Day 15
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Tuesday, July 10
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2066 day 20. This one was a little slow getting going but seems to have picked up the growth the last couple days.
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Tuesday, July 10
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2363 day 20
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Tuesday, July 10
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1944 day 20. This one is the fastest grower so far.
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Tuesday, July 10
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The long gourds are growing nicely. Starting to fill in the top of the trellis.
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Tuesday, July 17
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2118 - Day 16
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Tuesday, July 17
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2269- day 24
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Tuesday, July 17
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2066- day 26
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Tuesday, July 17
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1944- day 26
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Tuesday, July 17
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2363- day 26. This one just gets more ugly every day. It's the only disappointment in the patch so far. Averaged only 17 pounds a day the last 6 days. All the others are doing right around 30 pounds a day. I guess I should be happy that 4 out of 5 are making decent gains.
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Tuesday, July 17
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LG's are growing well.
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Tuesday, July 17
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Correction, day 21 on the 2118 squash.
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Wednesday, July 18
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We got three inches of rain yesterday. If my math is correct, that's a little over 8,000 gallons of water on my 4,500sf patch. Be interesting to see how the pumpkins react to that.
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Wednesday, July 18
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Just in case anyone is interested in the math- One inch of rain on one acre is approx. 27,154 gallons of water. There are 43,560 square feet in one acre. So if a patch is 4500 sf, then it is approx. 1/10th of an acre, or 2,700 gallons per each inch of rain.
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Wednesday, July 25
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The 2118 - about 400 pounds.
Doing approx 27 pounds a day.
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Wednesday, July 25
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The 2269- about 500 pounds. Averaged 39 pounds a day the past 5 days.
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Wednesday, July 25
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The 2066- 600 pounds. Averaged 36 pounds a day the past 5 days.
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Wednesday, July 25
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Another view of the 2066. Perfect shape on this pumpkin.
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Wednesday, July 25
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1944- a little over 600 pounds, averaged 35 pounds a day the past 5 days.
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Wednesday, July 25
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Another view of the 1944. Like this shape on this one as well.
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Wednesday, July 25
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View of the 2066 (front), the 2118 & the 1944.
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Thursday, August 2
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Took August 1st measurements yesterday. The 2269, 1944 & 2066 are all right around 800 pounds. I'm happy with that as my largest August 1 pumpkin previously was 700 pounds in 2016. The 2118 is approx. 600 pounds. This is the 2269.
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Thursday, August 2
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The 1944
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Thursday, August 2
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The 2118
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Thursday, August 2
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The 2066
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Thursday, August 2
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Love this view.
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Monday, August 13
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My daughters still let their dad take pictures of them with the pumpkins :) This is the 2269.
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Monday, August 13
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The 2118
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Monday, August 13
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The 2066 (front) the 2118 & 1944
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Monday, August 27
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We have a few good long gourds going. These are off our 12 foot trellis. This is the bottom of one. We had to dig a small hole this weekend.
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Monday, August 27
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Top
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Monday, August 27
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This one is only a couple inches from the ground.
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Monday, August 27
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The top of the second one.
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Monday, August 27
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This third one is getting close to the ground and still growing good.
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Wednesday, August 29
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Everything is still growing. Slow, but still growing.
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Monday, September 10
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1944 Connolly
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Monday, September 10
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2118 Jutras
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Monday, September 10
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2269 Paton
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Monday, September 10
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2066 Geddes.
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Tuesday, September 25
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We picked our three long gourds and they are in the basement for safe keeping. I'm posting this picture because we have 3 nice LG's and 2 of them are almost exactly the same length (within 1/8 to a 1/4 inch). The one in the middle is a couple inches longer than the other two. We plan to take each of them to separate GPC events and we wouldn't want anyone to think we are trying to take the same gourd to two different events.
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Wednesday, October 3
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The 2269 was a tight fit in the truck. The final weight was 1476 weighed at Deerfield Fair. Good enough for 3rd place. Just missed 1st place by 1,000 pounds or so.
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Wednesday, October 3
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Another picture of Steve's 2528.
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Wednesday, October 3
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Final weight on the 2066 Geddes pumpkin. Came in 6th place at Topsfield.
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Wednesday, October 3
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We did get 1st place for long gourd at both Deerfield and Topsfield. This is our Deerfield entry.
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Friday, October 5
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Loaded and ready for RI tomorrow.
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Monday, October 8
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Went down to RI this past Saturday. Had a great time, fist time we had ever gone to that weigh off.
This was grown from the 2118 Jutras squash seed, but it was ruled by the judges to be a pumpkin. Went about 200 pounds over the chart, so that was a real nice surprise.
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Monday, October 8
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We finished the season 3 for 3 getting 1st place on the long gourds, so we were real happy with that.
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Monday, October 8
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One pumpkin left in the patch. It will be going to our NHGPGA weigh off in Goffstown this Saturday.
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Monday, October 15
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Had a great ending to the season at the NHGPGA weigh off on Saturday. Our entry grown off the 1944 Connolly went 18% heavy and weighed 1508 which was a new personal best.
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