Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 15 Entries. Friday, May 12 View Page 2144 Barron, put in afew day's ago   Wednesday, May 31 View Page Growing as good as could be expected. Seed started April 17th and it took was slower than expected to germinate. It's been hot here the past week and the forecast says its staying for another week, 27-30 c daytime highs.   Thursday, June 1 View Page 118s on north side of the greenhouse, sprayed Sevin last night for flea beetles   Thursday, June 1 View Page *   Friday, June 2 View Page *   Monday, June 5 View Page 30-32 Celcius the past few days, that's 90f, pretty hot for the first week of June here. Pinched off a couple females, main vine 8ft, slow secondaries but better than most years   Thursday, June 22 View Page 9 females pinched so far. More to come off today. Waiting for the 15fter about 5 days out. Vine burying today will have it anchored in decent   Thursday, June 22 View Page Another 6 pinched, left 5   Monday, June 26 View Page 2-3 days out yet. Plant looks decent. I've yet to do any foliar, and first tissue sample to be sent within the week.   Tuesday, June 27 View Page Well I was wrong, pollination this morning at 16ft. Only problem is my males on 2 different plants had little to no pollen but yet had good pollen when I checked some last week. So I drove 5 miles south of here for a plant a gave away only to see the pollen wet from the heavy rain last night. Then drove 10 miles north to 2 other plants I gave away and got 3 with pollen. Before that I had also used a couple old males from yesterday that had good pollen, so we'll see, I used about 8 males lol, hopefully it takes. There's 4 or so on secondaries coming soon and another one on the main but it's getting late, fingers crossed   Tuesday, June 27 View Page Also pinched off 3 more females I didn't like last night. At least this plant is putting out females   Sunday, July 23 View Page Well, down to the final one on the barron. One foot out on a secondary so I'm just considering it an extra long stem lol, I've never grown on a secondary but it was the best one. All the fruit on the main had deformed lobes but perfect ones on secondaries. I still pollinated the main vine fruits but was never happy with the shapes and/or growth rate. They all got off to slow starts though too with the first few weeks of july being alot colder than june was, nights were near freezing and with quite afew cloudy/smoky skies   Sunday, July 23 View Page Tissue test came back showing high nitrogen, high calcium and very high phos, and everything else sufficient   Tuesday, October 3 View Page Tucked in till the end now, cold, rainy.   Thursday, October 5 View Page Stem and shoulder split now only a couple days from weigh off. Hopefully holds together enough and doesn't go through. I'll probably still take it anyways even if it does, there's a pretty decent chance its a pb regardless, and it'll also be good to see one of the Bernstrom giants too.