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Saturday, March 5 View Page upgraded to a backpack spayer for 2016 ,,feel like gohst buster in this thing haberfrieght has em on sale for 20 ,,Ready to spay the compost tea ,,   Saturday, March 5 View Page Last years crop.it was alot of late growth i never saw before ,,got off to a cold spring ,goin to try 10 plant this year,hopefully out do last year ,,there saying a early spring ,,looking back at pics from 2012 ,, had a kin at 34 inches on day 10 ,,havent be able to get those numbers in 5 years ,,thats the wheater iam hoping we get or better this year ,,   Saturday, March 5 View Page pic dint attach   Sunday, April 3 View Page Heres a pic of a early start ,shes in a 15 gallon pot .for the greenhouse . hopin to move up my pollation date to early june as the 1108 bennett was still growing last year when cut off the vine ,like too get her out inthe greenhouse april 20th n start outside seeds that day ,,we got 5 inches of show n more coming for the next week .were over due for a early spring darn it   Tuesday, April 5 View Page So much for my greenhouse early start plant ,15 gallon pot must of looked like a good place to my cat to take a dump in ,,still have alota time n 4 more 2032 mattason seeds ..   Saturday, April 16 View Page pic of the 2032 .restart, its loven the black magic soil ,,green house temp hit 82 yeasterday ,goin to use heating cable n heater at night ,night time temps are still in the 30,s .plan on planting her apirl 20th ,   Friday, April 29 View Page pumpkin porn pic , 2032 mattason plant is a rockin. looking at last years pics dint have one this big till may 23 , june pollanation might happen ,as long i dont screw it up .shes goin outside saturday ,   Friday, April 29 View Page pic 2   Sunday, May 1 View Page re did greenhouse this week took out runners and added 2 truck loads of soil ,built minnie green house this morning added soil heating cable temp is at 54 degress without cable ,,well turn on tonight at 800,like to get it up to 65 ,,plating tomaroo ,plant is as big as i had last year on may 24 ,,good start so far ,   Sunday, May 1 View Page decided to plat this hog ..soil temp went up to 61 after hr of soil cable was plug in   Sunday, May 1 View Page she was way over do to get plated ,,   Sunday, May 1 View Page ended up cuting the leaf off and planting her sideways ,,dint want to chance her braking off ,put 2 gallon marks root keeper on her ,, wont water her for a few weeks make her look for water ,,,,   Monday, May 2 View Page it was a cold night forst on the grass this morning   Monday, May 2 View Page she made it threw the cold ,,leaves set nicely.   Saturday, May 14 View Page heres the 2032 main growing great but every side vines are clustering in flowers and not growing wtfuge thinking of pullin it ,how can u grow a gaint with no side vines   Saturday, May 21 View Page 2032 plant ,,side vines are findly poping out ,looks like i lost 8 vines ,had to curve because of it ,new plan to grow main out front of green house ,,have a baby pumpkin on tip ,,butt well be cut off ,,need to get plant wider   Monday, June 27 View Page set 2nd pumpkin this morning on the 2032 ,,first one was yesterday.26 .there a day apart .can see the first one grew in one day .2nd one has nicer looking lobs ,i think the first one might have a seed in it ?? not sure butt like the shape of it .kins are around 30 foot away from stump ,we well see how that go.s   Monday, June 27 View Page kin with a white seed not sure .really want to go with this kin ,wait in see on day 10 .   Monday, June 27 View Page pic of the 2032 .plant growing out of greenhouse   Monday, June 27 View Page pic of the 1947 n 1916, had one day in the 90,s put trampaline on for shade n screen around for sqush bugs there out saw 5 of them on the 25th ..   Monday, June 27 View Page Looking more closer at the kin ,, looks like its not a seed ,in a lobe ,its a tiny lobes growen under the bigger one ,makeing it a 7 lober .have a good feeling iam geting past 1238 pounds this year for a goal ,and dream of hitting 1500 pounds   Saturday, August 13 View Page day 48 on my little giant ,, 340 ott est 853 ,,night time temps been cool this year ,been slowing me down ,,   Monday, August 15 View Page 1317 Clementz @ 350 pounds ,,not sure what day was goin to give up on the plant ,now shes leading the outside pumpkins ,dint have a kin untill where she sets now ,,   Monday, August 15 View Page side pic   Monday, August 15 View Page pic of the 1317 Clementz plant   Thursday, August 25 View Page day 60 on the 2032 ,(Nancy )dedicated this grow to my ant nancy that we lost in july to liiver cancer 369 ott est 1081 hopein to get a personal best have the same ott as in 2012 butt 20 days ahead ,only need 140 pounds to go   Friday, August 26 View Page 1317 clementz 139cc 88ss 84fb 311ott est 659 ,,too bad i couldnt get it set sooner ,she put on 309lbs in the last 10 days .   Sunday, August 28 View Page blossem end spiilt on me saturday ,dont know if it was the rain or the tempture swing, been 80s n droping in the 50s .blossem end never did look right from the start ,never grew a blossem end like this before ,so i looked it up in the dairys and found out there more likely to spilt ,wont be saveing the seeds in this one ,,was geting close to my personal best ,she put on 3 inches circle sence tursday ,might of been from the rain who knows ,, have her sealed up ,see if i can get 150 more pounds n be over my PB ,   Monday, September 5 View Page day 70 est 1204lbs , so close to beating my persal best , need her too go heavy ,pb is 1238   Monday, September 5 View Page 1317 at 875lbs   Monday, September 5 View Page this one off John's harnica seed ,cant remember what one ,makes a good seat ,   Monday, September 5 View Page pic of the 1916 ,   Monday, September 5 View Page she over 500 lbs ,,oldest out side kin , dug 2 sqush bugs out of her 6 inches from the stime