Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 29 Entries. Thursday, April 8 View Page I’m going to try and keep a good diary this year. Here are the three main seeds I’ll be starting. I won the 1911 Urena from Mark Clementz on a seed giveaway he was doing on the World Wide Giant Growers YouTube channel. Thanks Mark! I’m excited to grow it this year.   Saturday, April 24 View Page I got 5/5 on germination this year. I started on April 20th. These are my two best plants, 1911 Urena on the left and 1959 Daletas on the right. The 1911 Urenas roots were very good but they didn’t compare to the amount of roots the 1959 had when transplanting.   Sunday, April 25 View Page 1911 Urena on the right 1959 on the left. The 1911 was the smallest of my 5 yesterday and now is the biggest. Plants have been up for 2 days   Thursday, April 29 View Page The 1911 Urenas getting huge. By far the fastest plant I’ve ever had. It already has roots coming out the bottom of every hole in the 2.5 gallon pot. I started the seed 9 days ago   Monday, May 3 View Page 1911 getting big!! 10 days out of the ground   Thursday, May 6 View Page Here’s a comparison between my 1911 left and 1959 right. They were started the same day and the 1911 is almost double the size. Both plants are growing great their happy and healthy and short and stocky.   Friday, May 7 View Page 1911 going good about 10 days ahead of last years and it was started 5 days later   Monday, May 10 View Page 1911 Urena getting huge. I’m hoping to get it outside early next week the grounds warm enough but it’s still too wet to till which sucks because if it was a little drier this would already be in the garden. I had to up pot it from a 2.5 gallon to a 5 gallon pot and there’s already roots coming out the bottom   Thursday, May 13 View Page 1911 Urena is a monster. It was started April 20th and is huge. I gave it it’s last watering today before it goes out into the garden early next week. I gave it a tiny dose of silica and amino acids about 70 ppm of each.   Monday, May 17 View Page 1911 urena is a monster I transplanted it yesterday and it already grew a couple inches. The 1959 is growing great too   Wednesday, May 19 View Page The 1911 is doing great it’s done 3 inches in the past 12 hours. It definitely likes the garden soil.   Sunday, May 23 View Page A section of the long skinny parts coming out of the flowers are yellow on all my flowers like this one. Is this a deficiency?   Wednesday, May 26 View Page 1911 urena a little more than 45 inches long. Started April 20th   Sunday, May 30 View Page Here’s a photo of the hut I have to make every night for my plants because of the cold. It’s been getting bellow 40 degrees at night for the past couple days and my parents don’t let me run any electricity into my garden. So I built a PVC frame with my dad that I put over the pumpkin every night and than wrap in blankets. Than I take gallons and buckets of steaming water and place them under the blankets with the plant. The hot water warms the area keeping it above 60 degrees even if it gets below 40. The plant continues to grow a couple inches a day even with this freezing and super cloudy rainy weather. Once the sun and warmth comes back the plant should kick right back into gear and start running again with no hesitation.   Sunday, May 30 View Page Here’s a picture of the plant I took the picture about 5 days ago and the plant is over 5 feet long now   Wednesday, June 2 View Page Pumpkins doing great grew 10 inches today and is over 7ft long which is huge compared to my plant last year. The secondaries are just starting to put out leaves so I’m really hoping they kick in soon. I’ll probably give the plant a little urea tomorrow to help the sidevines pop   Saturday, June 5 View Page Here’s an example of the leaves. They only look like this at the top of the plant not the bottom. I’ve tried foliar spraying Epsom but it hasn’t helped so I think it might be something else   Tuesday, June 8 View Page Here’s a picture of the plant about 11 feet long. The secondaries are taking off now and doing good (they’re hard to see in the picture) I have to go away for the week but I got my dad to take care of it hopefully he won’t have to do anything except maybe water. I can see a female flower in the very tip that will have 22 secondaries behind it and will land in the perfect spot. I’m really hoping it will take 15-20 days for it to open so that the secondaries have time to fill in before the stress of the pumpkin comes. It’s going to suck that the vines won’t be buried until I come back but there’s nothing I can do about.   Wednesday, June 16 View Page I made the mistake of ripping off a tendril with my hands right next to the pumpkin that I want to keep. It went a little deeper than I thought. Will this affect the pumpkin? Should I wait for the next one? There’s also a mark on the other side of the vine from a stick rubbing against it. Will any of this affect the pumpkin growth?   Monday, June 21 View Page Pollination Day. 1911xSelf biggest plant I’ve ever pollinated on by far. It seems like this will be the first year I fill up my entire space if all goes well. Last year When I grew my 1124 only about half the space was filled   Monday, June 21 View Page Just to help me keep track it was a 4 lober   Saturday, June 26 View Page 1911 urena dap 5 doing good I’m not to worried about size I’m more worried about getting my plant to fill in its area which I think might happen for the first time ever this year it’s definitely growing nicely it gets noticeably bigger every day   Monday, June 28 View Page 1911 Urena growing fast   Monday, June 28 View Page Here’s the pumpkin DAP 7 1911x self growing good I’m excited about this one   Thursday, July 1 View Page 1911 urena 10 dap It’s definitely the nicest looking 10 dap pumpkin I’ve ever had.   Thursday, July 1 View Page Here’s another photo I just realized I took these photos up and down instead of sideways so they’ll probably be sideways I. The diary   Sunday, July 25 View Page My pumpkin this year is being super frustrating. The plant is huge compared to my one last year and much healthier I’ve done a ton of stuff different but the pumpkin at day 34 is still smaller. I’m guessing a lot of it is because of the rain so I haven’t fertilized in 3 weeks because my gardens a puddle.   Sunday, August 8 View Page Getting bigger   Friday, August 13 View Page Getting bigger