Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 7 Entries. Friday, February 2 View Page New patch, I hope that this month we can install the greenhouse. The earth is not fully prepared, but I have added 2 sand trucks and one compost truck. The patch is next to my house, and I have electricity, and quality water. It’s a greenhouse for 2025, but maybe I’ll have time to grow something here in 2024.   Friday, February 2 View Page Here when we add the silica sand.   Wednesday, February 7 View Page I need help, I need nice photos Of people on top of a big pumpkin, beautiful photos, I want to put together a video of photos, to encourage new growers. Can you help me? You can send me the photos to the email ruben@valtierra.com or for menssenger. the photos I receive before the 9th I will include them in the video. Cindy Tobeck you don't need to send, I've already taken them from Facebook lol ?? please, send me very much photos.   Monday, March 11 View Page 25 seeds, to try to grow 3 pumpkins. The seeds in the fridge don’t do anything, you have to give them a chance. I’m looking for 9 for the 3 holes. (3, more 6 backups) and 6 pollinators. Only the best will make it. My favorites are 2365 and 2183, the third will be the best of the rest of the pots, and the next ones the bacups. Pollinators, I have tried to look for the best of the moment, and of different genetics. My favorite is 1357 Wolf. (Plant of the father of 2365). In a week we start , seddling the pollinators. I hope they are all born well and put me in trouble choosing the best ones. I love the 1780 Melka and 1893 ureña and 2560 Travis, if it is a good plant I will have to decide between the 2560, 1893, the 1780, the 2610, 2502, 2447x 1707, 1727x it will be very difficult to choose the third. It’s fantastic!! Lol   Monday, April 8 View Page My 3 plants are in the ground. And in 3-gallon pots, I have the pollinators at the moment, then I will switch them to 20 gallons, and the bacup 1780 Melka is fabulous, a 2183, and 2501 bestrom. Every year I put the bacup on the ground near the plants I want to grow, but Travis, one of the nights we were having dinner, told me it’s a mistake. That the roots come together a lot, and that when you remove the bacups, those roots die, and can cause some disease to the roots of the plant that you continue to grow. It’s common sense, I understood it when he perfected it. So from now on the larger potted bacups, in case any of the 3 o’clock plants have a problem (2183-2560-2365)   Sunday, April 28 View Page 2560 grows very well, it is the only one that does not have heating cables on the ground, the guide is much faster, but it comes out thinner. It will be very interesting to know the benefits of the heating cable. 3 plants on the ground, 2560, 2365 and 2183. The 2183 is one of the best I’ve had. The plants have improved a lot, they were very cold the first week after the transplant, but I think they have already overcome it, and they are also acclimatised to cold nights. It is the year that I have the driest soil, I water every 4 days, and it seems that the roots are going down quite deep. I have separated this year the first drip hoses at 45 cm, so that the secondary guides do not touch the water, and the main guide will be raised to 15 from the ground, far from the hoses, and I will try not to cover it much with earth, I do not want any disease in the main guide this year, I have become very maniac, I have already corrected 9 drip hoses, which had just the drip under where the main guide will go, it is better than this at 17 cm on each side of the guide. The 3 seeds were born from the pot after 3 days, sow directly in the pot.   Sunday, April 28 View Page Pollinators are also doing very well. 1780 Melka, 1357 wolf, 1959 and 1965, in addition to 1875 mendi and 1727 caspers, which I later planted as bacups, or pollinators. In the light 5 other plants wait anxiously, already 9 days since I planted, they are bacups, of the bacups.. lol. Possibly some elderly gardener will grow them in my village, I will tour the orchards to deliver them, if the 3 that are now on the ground continue as they go.