Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 35 Entries. Monday, January 6 View Page Starting my diary for 2014 today its one below zero.Thought i would try throwing some water in the air and watching it freeze. Cant wait to start growing.   Tuesday, January 21 View Page Received my seed pack from the S.G.P.G today A lot of great seeds , several pumpkins over 1000 pounds with great genetics. It was fun going through them on this cold and snowy day. Thank you Frank and Tina and all of the member of the S.G.P.A for making this happen.   Saturday, March 22 View Page Everything added to the soil as Western Labs recommended and tilled in since it was dry.   Thursday, March 27 View Page Germinated a bunch of tomato seeds in the Little Giant egg incubator and then transferred them over to seed starter trays.   Thursday, March 27 View Page Right now I have them under a 400 watt light until the sun starts shinning again and then I will move them to the green house. I started some 4.61 Finders, 6.83 Boudyo , 6.01 Boudyo , 6.83 Boudyo 6.57 Boudyo, and 4.57 Mccoy. Thank you everyone for the seeds!   Tuesday, April 1 View Page Worked on getting the hoop house up today, I was really wanting to get the plastic on it before it rained tomorrow but the wind was blowing so hard I was afraid to attempt it. The hoop house is 14 ft long and 5 ft wide. I think will only grow 2 pumpkins this year so both of them will go in this one hoop house back to back.   Tuesday, April 1 View Page My last picture of the hoop house didn't turn out right so I am trying it again.   Tuesday, April 8 View Page Here are the seeds I have decided to grow this year ,I am only planning on growing 2 plants this year so one will be a backup. Thank you everyone for the great seeds.   Tuesday, April 8 View Page Soaked seeds in water and a little hydrogen peroxide for 30 min.   Tuesday, April 8 View Page And then in quarter teaspoon of Neptune Harvest fish and seaweed with a quarter cup of water for 5 hours   Tuesday, April 8 View Page Placed everything in separate damp paper towels and put in labeled plastic bags.   Tuesday, April 8 View Page Put the bags into a preheated incubator at 85 degrees. Now the waiting game begins.   Thursday, April 10 View Page All seeds sprouted and put in preheated 5 inch peat pots filled with soilless mix under 400W metal halide light.   Saturday, April 12 View Page All seeds above the ground now and looking good. Whew!!! I am sure glad that part is over with. Its just hard to believe that if everything goes good and with a lot of luck , these little plants could produce a fruit over a half a ton in 5 months. Its really hard to believe.   Monday, April 14 View Page I am very pleased with the way the plants are growing. The 1894 Mathison's cotyledons were stuck together and didn't want to unfold, I gave it a extra day and I could see it was not going to open on its own so I gently pulled them apart and now its growing without any issues. I believe if I had not separated them it would have died. I notice that the true leaves on it seem to be a day behind the 1813 Northup and the 1546 Shenoha   Thursday, April 17 View Page Since the weather seems to be warming up, I removed the plants from the grow lights and repotted them into larger containers filled with Happy Frog potting mix and placed into the green house . I put heating mats under each pot and plug them in at night to keep the soil warm.   Thursday, May 1 View Page I need some advice. This is the vine on the 1894 Mathison, it is kinda flat and wide, should I be concerned about it or is this normal. I will upload another picture on the next page. Thanks kr4af@yahoo.com   Thursday, May 1 View Page Here is another view.   Thursday, May 1 View Page Here is a pick of the growing tip.   Saturday, May 10 View Page As bad as I hated to ,I pulled the 1894 Mathison because it was a flat vine. I thought about trying to keep it but after reading several past diary's I seen people having bad luck with them. I had the 1546 Shenoha as a backup so I will use it. I seemed to be fooling around with the 1894 all the time and neglecting the other plants , so I pulled her and put it another part of the patch in case I may need some male blooms later on and this plant might have a few .   Saturday, May 10 View Page Another view of the vine   Saturday, May 10 View Page And another view   Saturday, May 10 View Page The 1546 Shenoha is really doing great. It was the backup   Saturday, May 10 View Page Found this old penny beside the 1546 Shenoha . may it will bring it some luck.   Saturday, May 10 View Page The 1813 Northup is doing great . I am very happy with this plant so far.   Thursday, May 22 View Page I am trying to grow a giant tomato with bubbleponics. I grew some regular tomato's and peppers a few years ago and they really did well. On the right is the Boudyo 6.57 the middle is the 4.61 Finders and on the left is the 4.57 McCoy in the front is a Trinidad moruga scorpion pepper that I am using for a access hole to put in water and the nutrients.   Thursday, May 22 View Page This is the root system pulling up nutrients. The last time I grew like this I had 4 Mr Stripey and 3 banana pepper's and the tomato's grew to the top of the garage. I was using a 12 gal container last time and it kept me busy just putting water in it . so this time iwent with a 24 gal.   Wednesday, July 9 View Page My first attempt at growing a giant tomato. it was grown from a 4.61 Finders and it weighed 2.65 pounds. I grew it in bubblponics.   Friday, September 19 View Page I thought these pictures were pretty cool loading the pumpkin. It was took with a Gopro camera   Friday, September 19 View Page Here is another one   Wednesday, October 1 View Page I kind of give up on my diary because things were not looking good earlier on. But my luck turned around at the end of the season . I ended up coming in 6th place at Bear Wallow weigh offs but I broke the 1000 hump with the pumpkin weighing 1,071 pounds and going 20% heavy it was my personal best . I also brought home the Howard Dill Award that I honored to receive. Thank you Shazzy for the great seed. And thanks to everyone else that were good enough to send me there seed to try to grow.   Wednesday, October 1 View Page I was having some internet problems and the picture didn't upload , let me try it again   Tuesday, October 28 View Page I made a Fall decoration out of the 1071, I can not believe all the people that have stopped by to take pictures with it . Its been a lot of fun talking with everyone about it and watching everyone from young to old enjoying it.The local newspaper came out and did a article on it also.   Monday, November 3 View Page I cut the 1071 up today to get the seeds out of it , the seeds count was pretty low .. but I can see now why she went 20% heavey . Anyone that might want a seed from it just shoot me a email at kr4af@yahoo.com   Monday, November 3 View Page Here is a link to a video that i made of cutting the 1071 apart. Sure was a lot of work hauling it away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4HIiDxjDo&list=UUpSw7D3Zuv8AtyR1vOVf_AQ