Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 27 Entries. Wednesday, January 23 View Page Have been getting things organized, inside stuff cleaned up, grow lights set, grafting supplies ready. Time for a test run on germinating rootstock. Looking forward to 2019 and some of the great seeds I'm gonna get to grow like Jeremy Terry's WR BG, Danny Vesters WR lope, Lloyd brights almost WR lope and his former WR watermelon, Dale Totens WR pepper and UK melon record. Gonna get to grow and cross some older melon genetics with new stuff. Really looking forward to this year. Gonna stay the course for the most part with the selfing of melons to try and pin down the better genes. We are growing more melons this year than years prior. No pumpkins at the house this year only in the commercial fields. I'll post line ups closer to the end of February. #L33T #elitemelons #triplepfarm   Tuesday, February 5 View Page Started pepper seeds tonight. Gonna try to transplant bigger plants this year with the upgrade in grow lights. As slow as peppers are to get going I'm gonna give this a go this year. Germinating Dale Toten'e WR Poblano, Dale's 580 bell pepper, my offspring from the WR bell pepper, and just some jalapenos to eat. In the process of building 3 raised beds for peppers and tomatoes.   Sunday, February 17 View Page The start to the 2019 growing season. Test germination is over. These are the first wave of grafting rootstock. This year I will pick one watermelon plant and give a very detailed diary on it. The other stuff such as cantaloupes, tomatoes, giant peppers, and kins will get lots of diary focus. We are doing too many watermelon plants to maintain a good diary on all plants so we will focus on one for the diary.   Sunday, February 17 View Page First 50 rootstock seeds down.   Sunday, April 14 View Page Haven't updated in a while. Here are some of the tomatoes. The Domingo's are considerably bigger and have been outside getting used to the outdoors. The Domingo's will go in the ground Friday. Other will follow this weekend.   Sunday, April 14 View Page These 4 watermelon plants went outside last Wednesday.   Sunday, April 14 View Page Here's a 268 Bright 05, the former world record. She came out of the healing chamber today. Thanks to Mr Hurley for the seeds.   Sunday, April 14 View Page Here's a 272.5 K Neptune hole insertion that will see dirt Friday. Thanks Mr Bill for the seeds. Looks like I'll have at least 4 272.5 K Neptune's in the patch this year.   Sunday, April 14 View Page This has been a recurring problem for me grafting melons this year. I've had alot of them put roots in the stem of the rootstock, this one decided it would put out roots on a single cot graft.   Sunday, April 14 View Page These are the 4.28s for the Big Marley contest. Looking forward to growing them.   Sunday, April 14 View Page Here are some of Dale Totens world record poblano peppers. They will hit the dirt Friday too.   Wednesday, May 29 View Page 4.28s for the Big Marley competition. These plants are the best in the patch.   Wednesday, May 29 View Page Another 4.28   Sunday, June 2 View Page The early plants are getting there. A couple plants pollinated so far.   Sunday, June 2 View Page The cucumber project is in full swing. The 20.5 MacCoy, 16 MacCoy, and 14.8 Terry heavy cucs are starting to take off.   Sunday, June 2 View Page The cantaloupes are coming along good. The Hurley from 1998 germed a day after the rest and has not missed a beat. It's just as aggressive and keeping Pace with the new seeds. 66.9 dmg Bright 18 x 3 65.9 Vester WR 18 x 3 46.65 Lindley 18 x 2 35 Hurley 98   Sunday, June 2 View Page Here's a shot of the raised beds and some gourds double planted. The 1885 Barron and 840 Young have also been planted yesterday.   Sunday, June 2 View Page 268 Bright 05 former WR (left) and the 283 Dawson 17 (right). These are some of the later weigh off plants.   Saturday, July 20 View Page Here's the 35 Hurley 98 cantaloupe. It's Ott is 133+". It's the oldest in the patch but still gaining.   Monday, July 22 View Page Here's the 840 young at dap 14. She's dap 18 today.   Monday, July 22 View Page Lost this lope the 46.65 Lindley (2) on Monday the 22nd to a rotten bottom. It's my fault for using a shelf with no holes. Weighted 41.4 with half the bottom gone.   Tuesday, July 23 View Page Some of the melons from the front patch.   Wednesday, July 24 View Page Gonna catch up on the diary some. Here's the 66.9 Dmg Bright (1). It turned early on me at 48.8 lbs.   Thursday, July 25 View Page Here's the 66.9 Dmg Bright (3). She was a fun on to grow. We had 4 days of clouds and rain during her peak growth from the remnants of Hurricane Barry. She still almost closed the deal and weighed 64.8 lbs. We came up 1.1 lbs away from the world record. Ott was 137".   Friday, July 26 View Page Here's the 66.9 Dmg Bright (2). It's a longer cantaloupe. She's younger too. It's over 132" ott today.   Friday, July 26 View Page Here's the 384 Terry bushel gourd. Hopefully I can get passed 147# this year.   Friday, July 26 View Page One of the heavy cucs on a certified scale. 11.76 lbs. The heavy cucs didn't like my heat. I had a couple others that were bigger but no certified weight.