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Western PA

After reading the "obituary" below,the question for the week is.....How many did you lose this week with all the storms and whatever else came your way.

I lost a 201" perfect fruit. Plant was very healthy. Abort.

Also , I lost a stump and the first 2 secondaries plus 300 sq ft of 3rd stage growth on another.

So how was your week, Lol !

7/28/2012 10:22:37 PM

Frankfort Ohio

lost 2 one abort 1 wind damage down to 1 plant

7/28/2012 10:34:22 PM

Connecticut

One of mine went from 20a day to 11 a day. Not sure why...yet

7/28/2012 10:41:50 PM

Upa Creek, MO

I have lost 11 (aborts)total, but we have had 13 days over 100 in just July already (Saint Louis). No Rain since May either, I feel bad for the corn and soybean farmers. Canada and the cold air is the spot to be IMO.

7/28/2012 10:51:22 PM

Minnesota

4 total, pulled plant, never had this problem, even put ice bottles around the pumpkin, has got to be the heat! it has been out of the ordinary hot.

7/28/2012 11:14:20 PM

Piqua, Ohio

my plants look great but my pumpkins are aborting on all six, what a crazy year!

7/29/2012 7:57:50 AM

Williamsburg,KY

Wont be long for this stump. Surgery performed, we shall see. Main vine is also having trouble, oozing some sort of gel. Im about give out. But giving it all I got.

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=185625

7/29/2012 8:57:42 AM

Linden,PA

I lost the pumpkin on the 1320 Snyder, last weekend it was 35" cc on day 12 and that is where it stopped. It looked really health when I put the picture in my diary. Luckily, I have another one further out on the main vine. It's an open pollination. Let's see if it will survive. Plants here also look very healthy.
I also had a fair amount of wind damage in the patch this week from storms Thursday and Friday evenings.

7/29/2012 9:42:10 AM

[email protected]

I didn't lose any fruits this week but got a lot of plant damage from some very strong storms that rolled through the area. Everything that wasn't burried got twisted up and much of what was burried got broken off where the leaf stalks come out of the ground. Luckily we only got a few seconds of hail.

7/29/2012 10:17:16 AM

Upa Creek, MO

Sorry for mispost, that was total on the plant and not this week. And, none of them made it mast 4 days old. It's a lot harder to lose them like I have seen in other diaries when 30 days old.

7/29/2012 10:24:15 AM

Cedar City, Ut

3 aborts this week in cedar city down south at the wife patch.. but i have culled at least 6 others she didnt know about .. do to her busy schedule,, got a real good one the 1402 urena,, and the 1600 mcConkie,, 1205 is struggling,, will she if she pulls out, curt

7/29/2012 3:05:01 PM

Springfield, VT

One from 1-2" of rain yesterday with a blossom end split

7/29/2012 3:08:07 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

Lost 2 this week. Still have several open on the 1381L plant but the 1421 stelts is toast.

7/29/2012 8:01:47 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

And my 1332 is on life support too.

7/29/2012 8:02:12 PM

Hampstead, NC 28443

I lost my last 4 fruits last week. Saturday morning, completely cleaned out the patch. The AGs chores for this year are done. I can now start fall patch preps in August. This heat in Iowa has been ridiculous. Mother nature wins, game over.

7/29/2012 8:42:48 PM

Anamosa, IA [email protected]

I'm just s few miles from Scott and I'm nearly in the same boat. I have 1 plant with a stump and a groundhog ate the pumpkin on a secondary. One plant with no stump and no flowers. My son has one without a stump that has 2 small pumpkins and 2 plants with stumps and no pumpkins. Our field pumpkins are growing wierd fruit that look like gourd crosses. Our long gourds are going just fair and so are the watermelons. Our second worst season ever. Beside the heat and lack of rain I have had to deal with hip and hand surgeries, blown lawnmower and tiller engines, rabbits, bugs, ground hogs and pythium. Next year will be better, it can't get much worse.

7/29/2012 10:06:47 PM

Honesdale, Pennsylvania

* 800 Neily; out.

7/30/2012 9:35:01 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

6 are done for us, plants pulled!....with 3 more likely.....BAD Year...and the damn elk still roam...and iZ really piZZ'in off the WiZ

7/30/2012 10:08:56 AM

Mission Viejo, CA

This is enough to scare us new growers right out of the hobby!

7/30/2012 11:52:12 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

Some yearZ you get the bear....some yearZ the bear get you.

7/30/2012 12:38:21 PM

Linden,PA

Wiz will those elk be around in Sept. and Oct.? I need to fill the freezer

7/30/2012 1:24:31 PM

Fairfield, CT, 06825

One to BES. :( Too much rain.

7/30/2012 3:11:09 PM

Massachusetts

lost my last one, no pumpkins this year :-(

7/30/2012 3:24:51 PM

Cincinnati,OH

Lost 1 of 4 . Aborted at day 32 about 300 lbs. I cant see a reason why so I guess its soilborne.

7/30/2012 5:00:49 PM

Winston Salem, NC

Lost 6 this week 4 of them to whatever rot/disease I'm combating on the 1360 and I made a sophomoric mistake and shocked my 1704...lost 2 and haven't seen one inch of growth on the remaining set in 5 days.

7/30/2012 6:51:38 PM

Albuquerque, NM

My plant was shredded by hail today... dont think i'll have much of a pumpkin after todays damage.... next year I WILL have that retractable sun shade up that I kept "thinking" about this year, Doh! Live & learn.

7/30/2012 10:00:37 PM

Jasper, Indiana

My only hope was the Freak.....day 26, 372 lbs, doing 40+ a day and aborted.

7/31/2012 6:18:03 AM

Bristol R.I. USA

Dam buck....sorry bout hearing about that!

7/31/2012 7:39:30 AM

50 Acres

We got our first signifigant rain since May 15. I hope I can get one polinated. It may be the first year since 1995 , that I have no pumpkin

7/31/2012 7:16:58 PM

Cheyenne,WY

I just pulled my 1213.5 REA. It started off a dark yellow and was close to the 20 day mark when it aborted.

I pulled the entire plant tonight and plan to do grass like Arvada Boy in its place.

7/31/2012 11:00:02 PM