Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 21 Entries. Thursday, May 30 View Page First time AG grower. Growing Wallace seeds received as Christmas gift.   Saturday, June 8 View Page 9 days   Friday, June 28 View Page A couple leaves folded in the storm the other day   Saturday, June 29 View Page First female forming about 10’ out!   Sunday, June 30 View Page This morning’s storm with 35-40mph gusts wrecked shop. Leaves folded and split, mains turned upside down etc. Obviously I didn’t have it staked well enough. Trying the clothes hanger method and re-buried. Guess we’ll see...   Wednesday, July 3 View Page Recovering from the storm damage. First male flower today!   Sunday, July 7 View Page The female at 10’ didn’t make it. There is another female forming about 15’ on the main. Both plants are looking much better.   Sunday, July 7 View Page The female at 10’ didn’t make it. There is another female forming about 15’ on the main. Both plants are looking much better.   Sunday, July 7 View Page Pic this morning   Sunday, July 14 View Page 5 lobe opened at 15’ on the biggest plant. Pollinated x self. Hope it takes with the hot weather we are having...   Wednesday, July 17 View Page 3 DAP 15’ main vine. Will probably have 3 more open tomorrow on secondaries. It’s been very hot and humid so keeping fingers crossed.   Wednesday, July 24 View Page Plant seems to be growing well and producing a lot more females. Currently 4 fruit, 2 on main and 2 on secondaries. All 10 DAP or less.   Thursday, August 1 View Page So while trying to move the pumpkin to be more perpendicular to the vine this happened. It was hot and I was trying to go slow over several days but...yeah. Not sure if I should cut it off and move on. Disappointing since it was just starting to really expand.   Thursday, August 1 View Page Pasted with sulfur and I guess I’ll wait and see for now.   Monday, August 5 View Page Hail and wind...3rd time this year. As a 1st timer it has definitely been a learning experience that this is not as easy as some growers make it look!   Friday, August 9 View Page Got home tonight and saw an SVB on a leaf. Used my sons bug net to catch it but it was weird, it wouldn’t fly but kept hopping. So I started checking every leaf and found 5 more in the patch. Killed them all but every one acted the same, maybe temperature related?   Wednesday, August 21 View Page My biggest of the year so far OTT 165. Had to cut a borer out of the vine about 5’ before the pumpkin. Growing slow but the vine has healed pretty well.   Thursday, August 22 View Page My backup pumpkin growing on the first secondary. Much rounder shape, and its growing faster than the bigger one on the main. OTT 132   Friday, August 30 View Page The smaller pumpkin around 80lb started rotting on the bottom so I cut it and applied Captan to hopefully safe it for display. The larger one seems to be doing well, OTT of 228! I’m very happy about the shape and color, just hoping it makes it!   Friday, September 13 View Page The smaller pumpkin I tried to save rotted. The big one is now the only one left. OTT of 249 and looking solid!   Wednesday, October 9 View Page Me and my assistant with our first AG that took 10th place at the Anoka Weigh Off! Ok...there were only 10 entries but still a great experience! Thanks to everyone who helped me and welcomed me at the weighoff. Final OTT 267.5, Final weight 475lb!