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Princeville, IL

Would like to make a list of 2020 HD winners and also update my top twenty heaviest HDWinners list. If you had an HD winner or know some of them for 2020 I would appreciate a rely with pumpkin weight and name along with its parentage. I sure miss the old Howard Dill dairy page

12/13/2020 12:49:57 PM

Plymouth, MN

1) Gale Woods: 1,054 Brown (1464 Brown X 1212 Brown), 2) Cedarburg: 1,263.50 Montsma (1872 Sippel X Self), 3) River Prairie Ginormous Pumpkin Festival: 1025 Bierle (1810 Werner X Self), and 4) Stillwater: 683.50 Hawes (1002 Ailts X 1211 Ailts).
http://bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=321497

12/13/2020 2:00:01 PM

Deer Park, WI

Great job on the post, Craig! you beat me to it.

12/13/2020 3:03:27 PM

Centennial Colorado

Nick's garden Center: 817 Ritter (1718 Ceja X self) Smith Farms: 626 Baker(870 Baker X self)

12/13/2020 3:48:03 PM

Bloomington, IN USA

Wasson Nursery Fishers, Indiana
1197 Strickler (1501.5 Wagner x self)

12/13/2020 6:29:28 PM

Muddy Waters

640.00    Laginess, Alan    Deerfield    Michigan    United States    Dundees Pumpkin Palooza    1139 Laginess    self    309.0    681.00    -6.0

12/13/2020 7:59:44 PM

Dillonvale, Ohio

Barnesville
1,579.0 Greathouse, (1885.5 Werner    1869 Greathouse)

12/13/2020 8:17:42 PM

Bloomfield, Iowa

Bloomfield Giant Pumpkin Bash: Iowa
525 Grooms on a very young (981.5 Davis x Open).

12/14/2020 7:25:52 PM

South Dakota

Great Downtown Pumpkin Festival, Rapid City, SD
963 Johnson '20 (1211 Borgers X Self)

12/15/2020 10:17:38 AM

Germany

Early Weigh-off Ludwigsburg, Germany:
707.2 Ressel 20 (495.2 Ressel x 97.4 Ressel)

12/15/2020 1:41:58 PM

Woodley, Reading, UK

Wargrave Nursery Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off- Curtis Leach 667.6 (off 1501 Vander Wielen)

Royal Victoria Country Park (Pinetops Nursery)- Curtis Leach 756.2 (off 97.4 Ressel)

12/15/2020 4:45:49 PM

Jericho Vermont

Woodstock Fair CT 609 Rondeau (1215 Young x 916.5 Rondeau)
Saratoga NY 1469.5 Young (1297.5 Young x 1080 Young)
Vermont State Weigh off 1552 Young (1215 Young x 1297.5 Young)

12/15/2020 6:10:45 PM

Roselle, IL GJGEM@sbcglobal.net

Heaps Pumpkin Farm Minooka ,Il
1398 Janowiak 1501 Vander Wielen x 1885.5 Werner +19% BOOM

12/16/2020 11:35:41 AM

Brandon,WI.

Cedarburg Wine and Harvest Festival 2020 held off site(darn covid) H-D Winner was 1263.5 Montsma. it was the (1872 Sippel X self) Pictures have been posted on Pumpkin Gentics if you want to see its color and shape. Finalist in Harvestfest prettiest pumpkin competition @ Stillwater, MN.got a ton of looks on I-94 during it 5 hr journey to weighoff. :)

12/16/2020 5:02:05 PM

Ct

Ridgefield - 583 Maydan (1464 Brown x self)

12/16/2020 7:53:04 PM

Woodward, Oklahoma

Man so happy to see my name on that list thank you 97pounder!

12/25/2020 11:06:51 PM

Germany

Lohmar, Germany:
1213.6 Wild 20 (1542 Urena x Self)

12/27/2020 1:19:18 PM

Cheshire Ma USA

Deerfield NH 2045 Kruszyna

12/27/2020 3:01:48 PM

Barnesville, OH

1809.5 Skinner 2112 Skinner x 2005 Haist

Ohio valley weigh off

12/27/2020 3:46:00 PM

Leerdam, The Netherlands

Dutch Giant Vegetable Championship
1347 Horde (1889 Lidberg x self) 9% heavy
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=321375

12/28/2020 4:29:10 AM

Princeville, IL

Thanks and keep them coming

12/28/2020 10:12:36 AM

San Diego, Ca.

Irvine Park Railroad Giant Pumpkin Weigh off
877 George (477 Buglio X 666.5 Gansert)
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=322316

This one didn't make it but would have been a HDA winner.
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=322315

12/31/2020 1:42:27 AM

Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Kurbiswiegen Bad Lippspringe
1049 Karkos 20
(892.9 Karkos 19 x 1885.5 Werner 19)
https://tools.pumpkinfanatic.com/FruitDetail.php?PN=1049%20Karkos%202020

2/2/2021 3:17:12 AM

Syracuse, NY

I hope you don't mind, Mr. Karkos, that this page is
MUCH, MUCH prettier:

https://tools.pumpkinfanatic.com/fruitImages.php?PN=1049%20Karkos%202020

I'll need a bigger screen for all that color! eg

2/3/2021 5:56:01 AM

Princeville, IL

Compiled by weight
2020 HD WINNERS

2045 KRUSZYNA — ( 2051 MARSHALL X 2005 HAIST)
1858 SIPPEL —( 1501 VANDERWEILEN X SELF)
1809.5 SKINNER — ( 2112 SKINNER X 2005 HAIST)
1665. MACDONALD — ( 1215 YOUNG X SELF)
1625 GANSERT —( 1382.5 REA X 907 YOUNG)
1579 GREATHOUSE —(1885.5 WERNER X 1869 GREATHOUSE)
1552 YOUNG —(1215 YOUNG X 1297.5 YOUNG)
1469.5YOUNG — ( 1297.5 YOUNG X 1080 YOUNG)
1398 JANOWIAK — ( 1501 VANDERWEILEN X 1885.5 WERNER)
1347 HORDE — ( 1889 LIDBERG X SELF)
1263.5 MONTSMA —( 1872 SIPEL X SELF)
1213.6 WILD —( 1542 URENA X SELF)
1197 STRICKLER — (1501.5 WAGNER X SELF)
1054 BROWN — (1464 BROWN X 1212 BROWN)
1049 KARKOS — ( 892.9 KARKOS X 1885.5 WERNER)
1025 BIERLE —(1810 WERNER X SELF)
963 JOHNSON —(1211 BORGERS X SELF)
877 GEORGE —(477 BUGLIO X 666.5 GANSERT)
817 RITTER —(1718 CEJA X SELF)
756.2 LEACH —( 97.4 RUSSEL X 1501 VANDERWEILEN)
707.2 RESSEL —(495.2 RESSEL X 97.4 RESSEL)
683.5 HAWES — (1002 AILTS X 1211 AILTS
667.6 LEACH — (1501 VANDERWEILEN)
640 LAGINESS — (1139 x SELF)
626 BAKER — (870 BAKER X SELF)
609 RONDEAU — ( 1215 YOUNG X 916.5 RONDEAU)
583 MAYDAN — (1464 BROWN X SELF)
525 GROOMS — (981.5 DAVIS X OPEN)

2/4/2021 10:02:08 AM

Princeville, IL

First correction. Although the 1625 GANSERT was a real pretty pumpkin it was not an HD winner.

2/5/2021 9:03:15 AM

Georgia

Cliff Warren has to be the most overlooked HD winner in the United States. He is the Norm Gansert of the West. He has been entering contests since 2007. He took home two HD's this year alone.

2020 HDs:

769.5 WARREN- (500 WARREN X SELF)
762.0 WARREN- (366.5 WARREN X 1533 KENKIN)

2/5/2021 10:21:19 AM

Georgia

Hey agteacher, curious how the 1501VW turned out for you that I send to you last year?

2/5/2021 10:22:15 AM

Scottsbluff, Nebraska

I think the 588 Bennett (808 Grubbs x self) won a Howard Dill.

2/5/2021 11:02:32 AM

Alex, IN

727 Hodge (2005 Haist X 2016 Boonen) Fair Oaks Farms

2/5/2021 12:00:15 PM

Princeville, IL

Looks like I have more updating to do.
Orange — give me your email address or send one to me at jhouse55@hotmail.com for info on the 1501.

2/5/2021 2:14:32 PM

Georgia

This list is just another reason why the GPC should denote the official HD winner. There are what a 120 or so GPC events and we have a hodge podge list of maybe 40 HD winners.

I think the GPC is scared to recognize HD winners with an organized yearly list. I believe they are scared that the HD award will overtake the largest pumpkin award. All they have to do is put asterisk next to an HD winner.

At some point it has to be intentional on the part of the GPC. There certainly is not significant amount of work required to collect information on winners. It is my understanding that the GPC event results sent back to GPC do not even have a place on the results sheet for the HD award.

2/5/2021 4:39:41 PM

Princeville, IL

Easier for people to compete for a HD than the biggest one. Maybe a jacket if you win three HD’s in a year. :). This coming from someone who has never been to a GPC weighoff. But that’s going to change when I really retire in a couple years. I really want an HD some day.

2/5/2021 6:02:26 PM

Upa Creek, Mo

Orange U Glad, I'm thinking they don't recognize because the HD award is subjective where as even an ugly grey pumpkin could win over a nice orange one.

Weights are weights, that's it, and numbers don't have potential feelings or a bias towards a grower.

2/5/2021 10:00:39 PM

Mi.

Michigan State Fair
1062 Cotterman 1885 Werner×self

2/5/2021 11:27:53 PM

Jericho Vermont

I have asked Ken for assistance with this and he will let me know in a couple of days if he can give us a weigh off HD report.

2/6/2021 4:37:42 AM

Princeville, IL

Thanks John. I did not realize there were so many gpc weighoffs and am missing so many HD winners

2/6/2021 9:12:31 AM

Georgia

I understand what you are saying Bryan about it being a beauty contest. But I think HD winners deserve an annual list of winners like weighoff winners get. It would be nice to know, who the HD grower of the year was, who was the HD grower of the decade, etc.

2/6/2021 5:41:36 PM

Ontario

Also they should have a photo of them on the pumpkin fanatic there are so many beauty pumpkin seeds that aren’t grown because a lot of us don’t know what they look like. It’s not that hard to do.

2/6/2021 6:05:00 PM

Syracuse, NY

I'm sure it would or *should* be up to the growers of the pumpkins world-wide to each sit at their computers for a while every few days (right after reading anything I'VE typed that day, lol) to enter a pic of each of their pumpkins - it dawned on me recently that a lot of the fruits listed don't have pictures because, well, does every pumpkin get its picture taken and SUBMITTED FOR that purpose? Probably not. It's not a Miss America pageant in that respect.

We are lucky that the listings for what ones are there ARE there; If a pic is submitted, that's the icing on the cake, of course.

SO---ALL growers should go on pumpkinfanatic.com and look at their details of each of their pumpkins and simply submit a picture for EACH - It is up to everyONE to do.

Oh, by the weigh, if IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII can grow a 500-pound orange pumpkin, ANYone can - It is getting one over 1000 or 1500 that would be more of an accomplishment. Perhaps the 500-pound stipulation needs to be increased to that, because maybe when it was first incorporated into the prize scheme of things, that lower-limit weight was perhaps more reasonable, attainable and indicative of a seed's potential. There CAN BE amendments to an entity's rules when they are needed.

I need to re-find a diary-type photo log I saw a few days ago in the Photo Gallery in which there were less-than-500-pound HD Winners listed; Is the stipulation still that a fruit must be 500-plus pounds to be an HDAW? Or quite simply the prettiest, shapeliest, most-uniformly-ribbed and damage-free specimen of all with the color of a thousand Navel oranges in an explosion...?
If so, then I should be a definite contender in '21.

If I can just get my trailer hitch on, lol!

Oh, and while yer at it:
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/MsgBoard/ViewThread.asp?b=3&p=696660

Grow Um Big-Uh! eg

2/6/2021 7:45:41 PM

Jericho Vermont

Ken replied back to me regarding the GPC weigh off data entry. Unfortunately the HD check box link was broken so he cannot pull that data from the past weigh offs but did say he would fix it to be able to pull a report this year. He did however pull data where the weigh off data entry people had put in a comment regarding the HD award and that info is here.

Young, John and Kerry    1552    Vermont Growers Weigh-off    
Janowiak, George    1398    Heaps Giant Pumpkin Farm    Illinois    United States
Brown, Chris    Howard Dill Winner    1054    Gale Woods Farm Weigh-off    Minnesota    United States
Karkos, Udo    1049    Kurbiswiegen Bad Lippspringe    Other    Germany
Johnson, Lance & Mary    963    Great Downtown Pumpkin Festival    South Dakota    United States
Laginess, Alan    Howard Dill Award    640    Dundees Pumpkin Palooza    Michigan    United States
Rondeau, Peter    HD    609    Woodstock Fair    Connecticut    United States
Duguay, Abrielle    549    Le Festival Provinciale de la Citrouille    New Brunswick    Canada

2/8/2021 6:00:09 PM

Duxbury,Ma.

Topsfield Fair, 2020
1236.5 Hallowell
[ 2017.5 Boyce x 2007 Klowan]

2/9/2021 2:09:16 PM

If you want to see some HD winners and other nice ones , go to PGPGA and hover over the weighoff tab. Click on a year and on the bold print names you can see a pictureof pumpkin. You will figure out who grows orange on older years.
Also if you do the auctions, they are there back to the year 2000. Site done right for this stuff.

2/9/2021 3:17:39 PM

Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

would be nice to have a HDA diary again.
Lots of growers sent pictures of their winning entries
and other can go back and have a look.

3/1/2021 10:52:47 AM