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Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 6 Entries.
Saturday, September 5 View Page
1941 werner x 1304 werner day 67 set 20’ out on main. A couple days after this picture it froze and most of my leaves are dead except about 2-300 sq ft of my 1304 Side vine pumpkin plant.
 
Sunday, September 13 View Page
Here is day 77 for my 1304X self side vine pumpkin. A storm snapped the main around 12’ so I had to go with a side vine. By far my biggest pumpkin on a side vine.
 
Sunday, September 13 View Page
Here is my 1304x 1941 main vine pumpkin day 88. It had some pretty bad storm damage earlier in the season and many leaves were laying on the dirt and then the frost finished them off.
 
Friday, September 25 View Page
Family picture with this years big 3. I was pretty excited about my pumpkins up to the beginning of August. Around the middle of August they ended up hitting a wall and I’m not completely sure why, but most likely disease. I’ve been growing giants for over 10 years now and I’ve learned to cut a lot of corners while still getting pretty big pumpkins. Some of the interesting facts about this season was 1. I tilled in fertilizer in April and didn’t put on any other fertilizer for the rest of the season. (I did one fertilizer app last year too on my pumpkin that went 15% heavy @ 1754lbs) 2. This year I went with all over head watering. I had one $5 sprinkler watering 3 plants. 3. No amendments/myco for vine burying. 4. No fungicide through irrigation 5. I Only used companion and actinovate through backpack sprayer up to middle of August when they hit the wall. Then I used Subdue and eagle but was probably too late. I got mildew pretty bad. 6. My 1754 last year had a 10 day average peak of 29lbs per day. I had 4 pumpkins this year have a 10 day average over 40lbs a day with my 1304 “middle” having a 10 day average over 50 lbs per day 7. I used only my own 1304 werner and 1941 werner seeds. Except a 692 ailts X 1304middle for fun. 8. My 1304 middle taped 1750 in August and only grew 5” in September. I’m not sure if I’ll get any official weights this year but the actual weights of my big three in pic were: 1941middle 1527lbs, 1304 middle 1778lbs, 1304north 1583lbs. I had another 1304 that peaked over 50lbs a day too but only ended up a little over 1500lbs. The 692 ailts x 1304 middle Last estimated at 314lbs and was grown on around 100sq ft plant.
 
Saturday, September 26 View Page
Not sure why last photo was upside down.
 
Thursday, October 1 View Page
Here are my father in law Dave hawes pumpkins. The one on the left is a 692 ailts X open weighing in at 231lbs and on the right the 1002 ailts x 1211 ailts at 683lbs. Hard to beat for color. Not sure if either will get official weights. The 683 could have some solid orange genetics.
 

 

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