Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 26 Entries. Saturday, January 14 View Page Overdue video of the harvesting of my pumpkins for the weigh-offs in late-September / early-October. Featuring the 2480 Graham, 1583 Graham, 1393.5 Graham. YouTube video   Saturday, January 14 View Page Here's the photo that goes with the video.   Sunday, January 29 View Page Final YouTube video of the 2022 giant pumpkin season. Standing up Bear Swipe and harvesting seeds. YouTube video   Sunday, July 2 View Page Rainy and slower start to the season, but all the plants have at least one pumpkin set. This year I'm growing the 2907 Paton in the prime patch, 2480 Graham in the second, and the 1461 Rodebaugh (Ruby) in the front patch. All vines have been terminated but still need to choose keepers. All pumpkins treated with Anthesis so will get a slow start as their cell divides for longer.   Sunday, July 2 View Page This is the 2907 Paton. Biggest plant this year so far   Sunday, July 2 View Page The 2480 Graham   Sunday, July 2 View Page 1461 Rodebaugh   Sunday, July 2 View Page 1461 Rodebaugh   Wednesday, July 5 View Page 2907 Paton x 2480 Graham, 14 DAP   Wednesday, July 5 View Page 2480 Graham x 2907 Paton, 16 DAP   Wednesday, July 5 View Page 1461 Rodebaugh (Ruby) x 2480 Graham, 10 DAP   Tuesday, July 11 View Page Update on my pumpkins. The pumpkin on the 2907 Paton plant is the leader in the patch - 20 days old and estimated 129lbs. It's way ahead of the 2480 Graham last year. Both were treated with Anthesis. So if the Anthesis was effective I'll be very happy with the growth. We'll see. The pumpkin on the 2480 Graham plant is 22 days old and should reach 100 lb tomorrow or the day after. It's on par with my 2480 last year. The pumpkin on the 1461 Rodebaugh is 16 days old and still a few days away from 100 lbs. It's been the fastest growing in the patch but slowed down a little yesterday (maybe due to the weather), but it's already very yellow.   Tuesday, July 11 View Page 2906 Paton, 20 DAP, 176" OTT, 129lbs   Tuesday, July 11 View Page 2480 Graham, 22 DAP, 146" OTT   Tuesday, July 11 View Page 1461 Rodebaugh (Ruby), 16 DAP, 138" OTT   Friday, July 21 View Page In the patch I still have 3 pumpkins going. One is going well (the 2907 Paton), one is going okay (the 1461 Rodebaugh), one is going not very well (the 2480 Graham). The 2907 is a nice white pumpkin and is my largest Day 30 ever. My 2480 was significantly smaller at this stage, but had a higher rate of growth at this age. So I think it'll be a decent pumpkin but not a monster. The 1461 Rodebaugh is going to be a pretty pumpkin (obviously) and is a yellow that's darkening every day. The 2480 Graham is a weird shape, something I've had a problem with in past years maybe due to poor pollination technique. Lots of rain and very humid in the northeast has made for a very different growing season than last year which hardly had any rain at all. All the plants are exhibiting weak newer secondaries, often terminating in clusters of flowers. I took tissue tests comparing strong and weak secondaries but didn't see any significant difference between them. So that remains a mystery. I'm going to see if I can fill up the patches a little more with some of the older secondaries to compensate.   Friday, July 21 View Page 2907 Paton, DAP 30, 518lbs   Friday, July 21 View Page 2480 Graham, DAP 32, 259lbs   Friday, July 21 View Page 2480 Graham, DAP 32, 259lbs   Friday, July 21 View Page 1461 Rodebaugh (Ruby), DAP 26, 220lbs   Friday, July 21 View Page 1461 Rodebaugh (Ruby), DAP 26, 220lbs   Monday, July 31 View Page "Falcon Claw" (2907 Paton) is 40 DAP. 870 lbs.   Monday, July 31 View Page "Mrs Boombastic" (2480 Graham) 42 DAP 396lbs   Monday, July 31 View Page "Amber Blaze" (1461 Rodebaugh) 36 DAP 373.5lbs   Monday, July 31 View Page The 2907 Paton is doing pretty well, but isn't growing at a 2480 pace - more like the 1832.5 pace. I had to remove a secondary a few days ago after I saw three dead or dying leaves in a row and orangey brown discoloration in the vine cross section. I didn't see any squash vine borers. I asked my friend MD for advice and was prescribed a drench of TKO followed by a foliar spray of it later. I'm not seeing any further spread which is good. The other two pumpkins are growing very slow. I'm not sure why, but the plants haven't done well with the weather.   Monday, July 31 View Page p.s. thanks again MD!