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Tuesday, February 12 View Page
Here we go again. The planned start of the seeds is 15.04.2019. Plants will grow in south germany. Today a very good seed arrived here.. (2170 Daletas) Planned lineup is: 1 x 2170 Daletas 18 1 x 1733 Wallace 17 And then backup: 1 x 1733 Wallace 17 2 x 631 Rupf 18 2 x 548 Rupf 18
 
Tuesday, February 12 View Page
Time for another season. Today a very good seed arrived here. It is a 2170 Daletas. Planned this year are two plants and 1200 lbs as goal. 1500 would be great. I will put in much time and efford and have two 1000 l Tanks that i can use one after another for warmer water reasons. I want to plant this Daletas seed and also a 1733 Wallace. Backupseeds will be: Another 1733 Wallace, 631 Rupf 18 and 548 Rupf 18. Greetings from south germany.
 
Tuesday, February 12 View Page
I forgot the picture. Here it is.
 
Tuesday, February 12 View Page
Well.. since i thought my first entry into the diary didnīt work.. now its double.. Some say: "Doubled holds better".
 
Sunday, April 14 View Page
Todays evening i will start 6 seeds: 1733 Wallace 2017 (2145 McMullen x 2261 Wallace) 2170 Daletas 2018 (1937 Urena x 2624 Willemijns) 1733 Wallace 2017 (2145 McMullen x 2261 Wallace) 631 Rupf 2018 (436 Rupf x 1173 Olsen)2x 548 Rupf 2018 (1173 Olsen x 1684 Willemijns)
 
Sunday, April 14 View Page
The pots are already prepared
 
Sunday, April 14 View Page
And also the glasses in which they will soak like 2-3 hours. Only water and pumpkinseeds..
 
Saturday, April 20 View Page
All six seeds made it to a pumpkinplant. They are: 2170 Daletas 18, 2x 1733 Wallace 17, 2x 631 Rupf 18, 548 Rupf 18. Good luck to everyone. So my two plants this year will be 2170 Daletas and 1733 Wallace if they do fine. I just transplanted them in bigger pots this evening. The pots in the picture are just the germination pots.
 
Monday, April 22 View Page
Today i decidet to plant the two main plants out. Here you can see on the left the 2170 Daletas 18 and on the right you can see the 1733 Wallace 17. This wood is to create microclimate and also save the plants from to much wind.
 
Monday, April 22 View Page
Here you can see how the planthole is located. I did a planthole with lots of preparation for the first time. Also Micorrhiza involved.
 
Monday, April 22 View Page
Here the 2170 Daletas 18 a little closer
 
Monday, April 22 View Page
Here the 1733 Wallace 17
 
Monday, April 22 View Page
And here a view from the house in 1. floor. I wish everyone good luck and joy.
 
Thursday, April 25 View Page
Today i finished the frame for the hailnet. This frame i constructed in 2018 and want to use it again this year. I also installed the hailnet today. The hailnet on the left side will shelter a lot of the 2170 Daletas plant.
 
Thursday, April 25 View Page
And here the hailnet on the right side. It will hopefully shelter a lot of the 1733 Wallace plant.
 
Sunday, April 28 View Page
Well.. today the hailnet had to do some work..
 
Sunday, April 28 View Page
Here after the hail/ice pellets
 
Monday, April 29 View Page
Today i was digging some more of the pumpkinpatch. Before that is did a thin layer of very good soil with longtimemanure. Also i did some sheepdungpellets on the ground before i was digging. After that i slackened the digged ground a little and then added another layer of the good soil. This year i want to reach 500 kg so it has to be 1102,5 lbs.
 
Monday, April 29 View Page
Here i finishes like 2/5 of the pumpkinpatch
 
Wednesday, May 1 View Page
Today i finished the pumpkinpatch in the evening. The photo is from todays afternoon. Very cool sprin this year.. also on the weekende more very cool days.. The plants are not growing much.
 
Thursday, May 2 View Page
Yesterday i had finished the pumpkinpatch. But the eveningsun didnīt let me take a photo of the patch. So now here is the patch. Its raining now and the weekend will be very cold.. Not a good pumpkinweather so far..
 
Tuesday, May 7 View Page
Today (Tuesday) the weather got finally a little less cold. A little warmer. Here is the 1733 Wallace
 
Tuesday, May 7 View Page
Ok now. Here is the 1733 Wallace.
 
Tuesday, May 7 View Page
Here the 2170 Daletas
 
Tuesday, May 7 View Page
And here both plants
 
Friday, May 10 View Page
Today i planted the 631 Rupf 18 UOW out. This will only a plant to make crosses and hopefully i will get here a pumpkin of 200-250 lbs.
 
Friday, May 10 View Page
Also i planted out the Tagetes flower plants. Its against nemathodes.. maybe it helps a little.
 
Friday, May 10 View Page
Another view
 
Friday, May 10 View Page
And here the backupplants that are left over till now.. On the right the 1733 Wallace 17 (the first one is in the patch). In the middle another 631 Rupf 18 plant and on the right side a 548 Rupf 18 plant
 
Friday, May 10 View Page
I wanted to say: On the left side is the 548 Rupf 18 UOW
 
Saturday, May 25 View Page
A little Update of the two plants. They havenīt grown that much. Tomorrow they say it will get 70 Farenheit.. so thats a beginning. Then some more cooler days will come. Then they say summer will begin with like 76 Faranheit. I hope to have the keeper on both plants in 5 weeks.
 
Saturday, May 25 View Page
Here is a new picture of the two plants. Its a little cold in germany in the last weeks. I hope to get a pollination on both in 5 weeks or less.
 
Thursday, May 30 View Page
Tomorrow there will be good pumpkin temperatures here in south germany. Here you can see the 2170 Daletas. I think this one has great potential because the vine is already so big..
 
Thursday, May 30 View Page
And here the 1733 Wallace... after that photo i see that there is already a problem with vine fretters..
 
Wednesday, June 5 View Page
Today i had to cut off the tio of the 2170 Daletas.. it is a multiple doublevine.. :/ Now i hope to get a secondary as new mainvine.
 
Wednesday, June 5 View Page
With the 1733 Wallace everything is fine. The mainvine should touch the ground soon..
 
Friday, June 14 View Page
Bad news from the 1733 Wallace plant.. Here you see the first female flower on the mainvine... bud sadly it is connected to the sidetwine.. Mutation 1..
 
Friday, June 14 View Page
And here the next female flower on the 1733 Wallace mainvine.. also here the same. The pumpkin is attached to the sidevine.. i think this will cause massive problems.. Time will tell..
 
Wednesday, June 19 View Page
Here you see the third female flower on the 1733 Wallace mainvine. Finally it is a normal layout. I am happy so far.
 
Sunday, June 23 View Page
The meteorologists say that there will be a massive heatwave in germany, beginning tomorrow. On thursday they say in my region there will be 95 F.. Very high for this time in the year.. This flower on the 1733 Wallace will open on Wednesday i think.. so i have to cool the flower i think..
 
Sunday, June 23 View Page
Here you see the complete 1733 Wallace plant. Healthy but not as big as i wanted it for the first pollination.. But i will pollinate anyway..
 
Sunday, June 23 View Page
Here the 2170 Daletas with the cut mainvine. A secondary is now growing as new mainvin. Also another secondary was also going into a flatvine, so i also had to cut another one. Also here i will let grow a tertiary vine to let the vine go on growing. I am hoping that now no mor problems will occure..
 
Sunday, June 23 View Page
Here you see a root. Yesterday there was massive hard rainfall for like 5 minutes. All the soil got very soaked and the result is now that a root was growing out of the soil into the air.. :P
 
Friday, June 28 View Page
Here is the 1733 Wallace. This morning the 4. female flower on the mainvine was opening up. It also hat seeds like the 3. female. Here are the 5. and 6. female.. the hope will flower in some days..
 
Friday, June 28 View Page
1733 Wallace plant today
 
Friday, June 28 View Page
2170 Daletas plant today
 
Friday, June 28 View Page
Here you see 631 Rupf x 1733 Wallace Day 2
 
Friday, June 28 View Page
631 Rupf 18 plant
 
Friday, June 28 View Page
631 Rupf plant also has many female flowers. even 1-2 flowers before the pollination 2 days ago.
 
Saturday, June 29 View Page
Today i did 631 Rupf 18 x 2170 Daletas 18 It was very hot.. i hope it worked...
 
Sunday, June 30 View Page
Today i did 2170 Daletas sidevine x 1733 Wallace I hope it will work. Today there will be massive heat. So i am trying to cool the flower with waterbags..
 
Saturday, July 6 View Page
The plants got very big in the last like 7 days. on the left you can see the 2170 Daletas and on the right the 1733 Wallace. I have some pollinations going: 29.06.19 ----> 631 Rupf x 2170 Daletas 30.06.19 ----> 2170 Daletas x 1733 Wallace 01.07.19 ----> 1733 Wallace x 2170 Daletas 02.07.19 ----> 1733 Wallace x 631 Rupf 04.07.19 ----> 2170 Daletas x 631 Rupf 05.07.19 ----> 1733 Wallace x 631 Rupf
 
Monday, July 15 View Page
Today a update of the pumpkins here you see a shelter against the sun for the 631 Rupf 18 x 2170 Daletas 18 today on day 17. This plant has not much space and is just planted to see if the 631 Rupf does not make doublevine or other mutations. To far the plant is doing fine
 
Monday, July 15 View Page
Here a closer look. Nice round fruit.
 
Monday, July 15 View Page
Here you see the tro keepers on the 2170 Daletas. The smaller pumpkin is 2170 Daletas x 631 Rupf(new mainvine) today on day 12 The bigger pumpkin is 2170 Daletas x 1733 Wallace(sidevine) today on day 16 I will let both grow and see what happens with them.
 
Monday, July 15 View Page
And finally the 1733 Wallace x 2170 Daletas on the mainvine today on day 15. It has some stemsplits that look as if they are healing up. There was a extreme change from heat to cool weather and when the pumpkin nearly was laying down it got cold and the splits happened.. I think he will do fine..
 
Thursday, July 25 View Page
Here you see two 2170 Daletas pumpkins (can u see the one in the background..?) The pumpkin closer to the camera is day 22 today and the one in the background is day 26 Both are allowed to grow. One is x 1733 Wallace and one is x 631 Rupf.
 
Thursday, July 25 View Page
Here you see the 1733 Wallace today on day 25. It has now like 97 lbs ott. Growing like 13,3 lbs a day the last two days. I hope it will go much faster the next days/weeks
 
Tuesday, July 30 View Page
The small Plant for genetics: The 631 Rupf today on day 31 and ott it has now 70 lbs.
 
Tuesday, July 30 View Page
2170 Daletas day 27 with ott 118,8 lbs today
 
Tuesday, July 30 View Page
1733 Wallace today on day 30 and now ott at 188,5 lbs today.
 
Thursday, August 1 View Page
1733 Wallace at day 32 today and it has ott 227 lbs today. last two days average was 19,4 lbs a day. I am happy so far.. :)
 
Thursday, August 1 View Page
Here you see the blossom end of the 1733 wallace.. a little close to the ground. I hope this will make no problems in the future..
 
Monday, August 19 View Page
This is the 2170 Daletas 18 on day 47. Ott it has now 485 lbs today
 
Monday, August 19 View Page
Yesterday the (Sunday) the 1733 Wallace was on day 49 and Ott it have had 494 lbs
 
Thursday, September 19 View Page
Here the endresult. Today i weighted the 1733 Wallace: 665 Rupf 2019 IOG (1733 Wallace x 2170 Daletas) +2,51 % schwer
 
Thursday, September 19 View Page
And here the 2170 Daletas: 619 Rupf 2019 IOG (2170 Daletas x 631 Rupf) -8,38 % leicht I was hoping he will go heavy but he did not..
 
Thursday, September 19 View Page
And here you see the 631 Rupf: 173 Rupf 2019 (631 Rupf 18 x 2170 Daletas 18) est Good luck to everyone in 2020
 

 

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