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Saturday, February 16 View Page
These pine berries/white strawberry’s came in the mail today and I didn’t expect them to come like this. Do any of you have experience with this and know what to do? What should I do with them to get them to start growing? They don’t look to healthy
 
Wednesday, February 20 View Page
Test germinating some seeds. I got this plastic box and heat mat from wallace wow and it stays at a constant 85. I don’t have to worry about temperature spikes now!
 
Friday, February 22 View Page
5/6 of my practice plants are up after 3 days. Now I’m keeping them at 70 degrees under the grow light 14 hours a day
 
Sunday, March 3 View Page
Here’s my test plant 12 days since the seed was planted and 9 days since it came out of the ground. When I planted it into the bigger pot I put dirt all the way up to the cots and the. The next day it grew 2 inches out of the dirt again. The plant seems a little flimsy but I’m not experienced with plants this size. What can I do to fix this? I’ve heard of a fan is there anything else? Email me at pumpkins044@gmail.com if you have any ideas thanks
 
Sunday, March 10 View Page
This is my plant 17 days out of the ground it’s crazy how healthy this plant is when all I have right now is 1 2ft t5 light. I’m ordering a couple more for my real plants.
 
Wednesday, March 13 View Page
This is the practice plant 19 days out of the ground under one t5 light bulb it out grew the box. I didn’t feed this anything but water and a little bit of humic/ fulvic at the beginning of its life.
 
Saturday, April 6 View Page
Got my green house up just need to adjust the tarps a little I remember last year when it rained the water would go under the tarps and still go into the greenhouse. I have really big problems with drying out my soil at the beginning of the year would it be fine to dig a trench around the outside and fill it in later when it dries? Email me at pumpkins044@gmail.com
 
Sunday, April 14 View Page
Today I prepped everything for tomorrow when I’m going to start my seeds. First I sandpaper the edge of the seeds and soak them in a water kelp and humic/fulvic mix. Then I put them in a moist paper towel inside my germination chamber which stays at about 83-87 degrees. Then after 12 hours I put them in moist potting soil that I mixed with kelp and mycorrhizae and watered with weak strength kelp, humic/fulvic, and mycorrhizae/tricohderma mixture.
 
Friday, April 19 View Page
Seeds came up today and are under my grow light. Last night I checked them and they were barley breaking ground so I thought I could leave them for the night when I woke up this morning the 2283 and 2157 were pushing off the top of the germination chamber! I put them under my grow light that stays 76 at leaves and 68 at soil I did this to try and see if it would help them get stockier. I will cool it down once they go into the bigger pot
 
Friday, April 19 View Page
Here are the plants about 14 hours under the light. The 2283 is front right 1385 Howell/Jolivette is left and 2157 Daletas is back right. The 2283 is a little bit behind the 1385 and the 2283 is a little bit taller and skinnier but that’s probably because when I came down this morning it was pushing on the top of my germination chamber trying to come out and get light it doesn’t matter though it’s still to early to tell and it probably won’t make a difference. The 2157 is very short and stocky but hasn’t turned its leaves up towards the growlight yet. I give them a break during the night and usually after the first night there up they grow a lot.
 
Sunday, April 21 View Page
I transplanted the plants yesterday after a day of being up roots were coming out of the bottom of 5 inch peat pots. I used bigger pots this year so I can keep the plants in longer if I need to, there no to big though so I can still get them out. I cut them in half and duct taped them so that it’s easier to transplant when I need to. I mixed in some azos and mycos when I was planting and it seems like the roots finally hit them because the plants started growing much faster now. The farthest plant is the 1385 Howell which is the biggest plant which is surprising! The middle one is the 2283 which had the biggest root system when I was transplanting. All the plants are doing great!
 
Sunday, April 21 View Page
I transplanted the plants yesterday after a day of being up roots were coming out of the bottom of 5 inch peat pots. I used bigger pots this year so I can keep the plants in longer if I need to, there no to big though so I can still get them out. I cut them in half and duct taped them so that it’s easier to transplant when I need to. I mixed in some azos and mycos when I was planting and it seems like the roots finally hit them because the plants started growing much faster now. The farthest plant is the 1385 Howell which is the biggest plant which is surprising! The middle one is the 2283 which had the biggest root system when I was transplanting. All the plants are doing great!
 
Sunday, April 21 View Page
I forgot the picture 1385 Howell/jolivette in the back 2283 in the middle and 2157 Daletas in the front
 
Wednesday, April 24 View Page
Here’s a picture of my plants. From front to back 2157 Daletas 1385 Howell/jolivette 2283. I really don’t know what I’m going to plant yet. The 1385 was the fastest but the first leaf looks weird and it already has the second leaf coming up even though the first leaf hasn’t come up yet. The 2283 is the second biggest and looks perfect. The 2157 was far behind so when transplanting to bigger pots I didn’t put benificiaries because I don’t have enough for back ups but now is growing fast and catching up without any mycorrhizae or azos. Today I watered all the plants in with azos mycorrhizae kelp humic/fulvic silica and Antony bit of amino acids. Maybye the 2157 will pick up and take the lead tommorow. If it does I will definitely plant it because I love the cross and how it was very big ott but pollinated with the 1625 ganter.
 
Friday, April 26 View Page
Here are the three plants from farthest to closest 2157, 2283, 1385
 
Saturday, April 27 View Page
I decided to measure my plants today and measure them tommorow morning to see how much there growing. Today all three measure 2.5 inches from the point of the leaf to were the leaf stalk connects to the leaf. All of them measured 2.75 inches wide at there widest point. Order of plants goes 2157 in back 2283 in middle 1385 in front
 
Saturday, April 27 View Page
Hi everyone something weird is happening to my plants. The cots are drying out very early compared to normal. And on this plant the leaf is turning yellow. It looks very weird and doesn’t seem right. Has this happened to anyone else? If anyone has any ideas please email me at pumpkins044@gmail.com
 
Saturday, April 27 View Page
This is the 2157 same problem.
 
Saturday, April 27 View Page
Here’s the 2283 it is the only one that doesn’t have the problem but I do the same things to all my plants.
 
Friday, May 3 View Page
Here’s a picture of the 2283 it was burned form the potting soil but seemed to grow out of it. The tennis ball is in there for a size comparison. It seems to be picking up the pace.
 
Friday, May 3 View Page
Here’s a picture of the 2283 it was burned form the potting soil but seemed to grow out of it. The tennis ball is in there for a size comparison. It seems to be picking up the pace.
 
Sunday, May 5 View Page
Here’s the 2157 Daletas that I started as a back up on the 28th. It’s been up for 3 days and seems to be growing much faster than the other two when they were this young. I don’t know if I’m goin to grow this one or the 2283 yet.
 
Monday, May 6 View Page
Here’s a picture of the 2157 Daletas it’s growing pretty fast I think. I think it’s been up for 4 days.
 
Monday, May 6 View Page
Here’s the 2283 it survived the potting soil that my other two plants died to. The first leaf looks bad but not dead the second okay and the third which is just coming in looks perfect. I thought I was going to have to go with the 2157 backup but if this one starts growing better I will grow it. It looks much healthier than it used to.
 
Monday, May 6 View Page
Here’s the stump of the 2283 it’s already starting to lean over which I think is good. It also has a stripe which is cool.
 
Monday, May 6 View Page
This is why I start in 5 gallon pots I get so much rain. There’s no way my area will be dry enough to plant next weekend. I will probably have to just put my plant out at one point if it gets to big and see what happens which is what I did last year.
 
Thursday, May 9 View Page
Wow didn’t expect the 2283 to recover so well from the burn. The leaves are big and healthy green. It’s still a little behind but the leaves grew 2 inches in length today and it’s starting to pick up the pace. I’ll probably be growing this one. I might clip off the very burnt leaf but I will leave it for now untill the plant gets bigger.
 
Thursday, May 9 View Page
Here’s the stem it’s very thick. I checked and I am pretty sure it’s not a double vine which is good. I also mixed amendments in today I will probably plant outside at the very end of the next week.
 
Monday, May 13 View Page
The Tomatoes are looking great! 4/4 of the 5.71 porkchops came up 1/2 of the 5.13 came up and sadly 0/8 of the 8.22 came up so far. I’m starting more 8.22 today, I have six spots to plant I don’t know which ones I’m growing specifically yet but it seems like the 5.71 are goin to be in majority. Thanks porkchop for the seeds!
 
Wednesday, May 15 View Page
The 2283 is looking great! It’s a lot greener than in the picture and it’s growing fast. I started hardening it off by leaving it in my basement at night tonight, I’m planning on putting it out this Sunday. The original plan was to put it out much sooner but it’s rained so much.
 
Wednesday, May 15 View Page
The only thing I’ve noticed on this plant was the secondary buds look a little yellowish towards the newer growth. The older growth looks green though so I’m guessing as the secondary buds get older they will get darker.
 
Thursday, May 23 View Page
Put pumpkin plant outside earlier this week it’s about 3 ft long probably more it’s grew 6 inches in 12 hours I’ll post a picture on Sunday the leaves are very healthy and green
 
Sunday, May 26 View Page
Here’s the 2283! It’s growing fast and didn’t stop even when I transplanted it outside. It was hard to transplant from the 5 gallon pot but I think I broke off almost no roots. The plants about 40 inches long right now and it’s sidevines are starting to kick in. It stayed a very healthy since I transplanted it outside.
 
Monday, May 27 View Page
Haven’t posted a picture of the tomatoe plants yet. It looks like I will be growing 3 5.71 porkchops and 1 8.22 porkchop. The 5.71s are a lot stronger s bigger than all the 8.22 except for the 8.22 that I’m growing. My Dad wanted to try one so he decided to grow the 5.13 La Rue.
 
Monday, June 3 View Page
Here’s my plant. It’s about 7 ft long it was growing 8 inches per day untill last night when it went down to 45 and it only grew 2 inches today. Closing up my hoop house tighter tonight to try and help keep it warm. Hopefully I’ll get a pollination before July. Longest secondary’s are 2ft and they gradually get shorter. I got a split in my main but it is completely dried out I hope it doesn’t affect the overall size of the pumpkin. It should be fine.
 
Saturday, June 8 View Page
Here’s a picture of the tip of the “flower vine”
 
Monday, June 10 View Page
Here’s the 2283. Secondary growth is slow but starting to pick up. All the secondary’s went from an inch to sticking out the bottoms of the mains leaves over the weekend. I have a female at about 10 ft with 11 secondary’s behind it but I won’t keep that unless something happens. Plants is way to small to get a pollination and not enough secondary’s behind it.
 
Monday, June 10 View Page
Here you can see the side vines sticking out the sides
 
Monday, June 10 View Page
Front view I forgot to mention the longest side vines are 3 ft long so the plant is 6 by 10
 
Monday, June 10 View Page
Front view I forgot to mention the longest side vines are 3 ft long so the plant is 6 by 10
 
Monday, June 10 View Page
Forgot to attach the picture to the last one
 
Monday, June 17 View Page
Here’s the plant I don’t know how wide it is but it’s about 13 ft long. It’s secondary’s are just starting to come in but there growing fast. I have a flower that’s going to open in about 10 days at the tip. I think I might keep that one it will have 16 secondary’s behind it which is not ideal but it would have had 20 if I didn’t have to pick off a few for being stunted. I put out a lot of markers tonight to try and tell how much the secondary’s are growing. I think the plant should probably double in width before I pollinate it which can probably happen if the secondary’s are growing as fast as I think.
 
Monday, June 17 View Page
This might give a better view of the secondary’s.
 
Monday, June 24 View Page
Pollinated my first pumpkin off this plant today! It was a 4 loner with an extra half lobe. I remember last year having this and when I asked a bunch of people said the only thing the extra half lobe does is make them go heavy sometimes. I normally zip tie and put a red solo or styrofoam cup over my flowers but couldn’t find any cups! When I was looking through my draw I found the white bubble that I got the seed out of and it fit perfectly!
 
Monday, June 24 View Page
Heres a picture of the tomatoes! There growing very nice, I put them about 3 ft apart from each other. Thanks Porkchop for the help with the seeds and help with the pumpkin and tomatoes this year!
 
Sunday, June 30 View Page
Here’s the pumpkin 6 dap. It’s growing very nice a great color and is a perfect shape. It has 15 secondary’s including the one at its node which I may have to remove. I don’t know if I’m going to keep this one yet or the one 2 down that will open in a couple days. The next female flower was 3 lobe and messed up so I didn’t really like that one.
 
Sunday, June 30 View Page
Here’s the plant it looks way bigger in real life. The sidevines quadrupled in size in 11 days and are growing very fast. The plant is growing so fast I might be able to keep the pumpkin I have now that had a June 24 pollination.
 
Thursday, July 4 View Page
Here’s the first pollination 10 dap it has a 21 inch circumference and is growing 3 inches a day but steadily going up. This one was very small at pollination so I’m not worrying about the size right now. I’m liking the shape and color of this one. The plant is growing very fast. I couldn’t figure out the square feet because of the odd shape so I just counted leaves and it has about 200. The next pollination had messed up lobes and was only a three lober. Its also growing very slow compared to this one maybye because this ones soaking up the energy. There’s another flower that may open up tommorow and depending on how that one looks I will decide between this one and that one.
 
Thursday, July 4 View Page
Here’s it from the top it has a little bit of an indent on the top left
 
Monday, July 8 View Page
2283 Barlow Dap 13 in the picture. Laid down my board it’s a 3/4 inch plywood with a 1/2 inch foam connected on top. It should give it a soft but protective layer to grow that also stays cool during the day. I couldn’t find any play sand so it’s going like this for now.
 
Sunday, July 14 View Page
Heres my first ever tissue test. It’s not bad I was actually surprised at how many things were good. I definitely need to fix the phosphorus though that could affect a lot.
 
Sunday, July 14 View Page
Pumpkin day 20 133 ott I don’t think that’s anything special but I don’t think that’s bad either. It’s only day 20 so it doesn’t matter. This pumpkin is from the 2283 Barlow and look at the color!
 
Sunday, July 14 View Page
Here’s the side view
 
Sunday, July 14 View Page
Here’s the side view
 
Wednesday, August 14 View Page
Hmmmmmm found this when I was weeding a couple days ago grew 2 inches over the past 2 days went from 11 inch circumference to 13 inch
 
Wednesday, August 14 View Page
Here’s a picture of the pumpkins it’s from a couple days ago
 
Saturday, September 28 View Page
Lifted the pumpkin and loaded it today with a home made lifting ring and tripod out of trees in my grandpas backyard and stuff in his garage in total lifting the pumpkin cost 0$ we just used stuff we found. I’m bringing it to Saratoga tommorow a long with my tomato.
 
Saturday, September 28 View Page
There’s a picture of my first tomato my second one which is about the same size will go to Saratoga
 

 

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