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Farmville, Virginia (mfowler@hsc.edu)

Has anyone else here every planted this one? I tried one this year and man it's a great plant! Very fast grower and very robust! The leaves got big in a hurry and the plant never tried to get leggy in the pot, just stayed low and bushed out. Very thick stem also. Awesome plant!

5/6/2007 7:07:09 AM

Manchester,N.H.

I started a 1180 this year and it has only been up for a few days. It is doing the same things yours is, it is awesome. The only problem is it is my sons plant

5/6/2007 8:20:22 AM

South East

just planted it ad got good hopes, nice to hear its doing good for you!

5/6/2007 5:34:39 PM

ordinary,VA

Mark was checking out your diary looking good!

5/6/2007 5:36:20 PM

Phoenix, AZ

Although not the 1180 directly, I am growing the 754 Fredricks (1180 X Self).

It was the strongest plant out of all of them but cannot stand the heat worth crap.

Also did an analysis of the 1180's grow and shown in AGGC and it looks like 80% of the offspring went heavy and I would say overall that all the listed offspring averaged close to 10% heavy.

5/6/2007 7:53:28 PM

Picton,ON (j.vincent@xplornet.ca)

I am growing an 1180 this year for the first time. It is our best plant so far!

5/7/2007 10:31:42 AM

Deer Park WA

We grew the 1180 last year and wound up with a 1112.5. Very robust plant but a little hard to get fruit set on it.

5/7/2007 11:17:00 AM

San Diego, Ca.

I've started about a dozen 754 Fredricks (same as HotPumpkin mentioned above)for interested friends who wanted to grow pumpkins and every one of them had much larger root systems they any other plants I have started...much larger!

5/7/2007 8:12:53 PM

San Diego

As mentioned, I grew the 1180 last year, it produced my 754 for me. Plant had a huge vine and stump. Started out small and became very big. New growth got burned easy but old growth did fine. We had the hottest summer ever, temps over 100 alot and up to 114. She went 18% heavy.

As for the 754 seeds, Ben's fruit seems to have gotten the burn on new growth too, but he is growing with no shade cloth or misting in arizona hehehe But it looks like it will give him a state record if it holds together! Others have planted the 754 and tell me via email it is really heat tolerant. So it varies, but everyone says it is very aggressive. I will grow it myself for sure;) Jimmy

5/11/2007 10:04:48 PM

Ohio

Mark, Steve Daletas warned me that its one of the most aggressive plants he has ever grown, he wasn't lie-in!

5/14/2007 9:10:12 PM