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Carrollton, Ga.

I am Doug Adams from Carrollton, Ga. Who all from Georgia will be growing this year and where do you live.

Doug Adams
Jn. 3:16

3/20/2007 11:17:19 PM

Georgia

Hey Doug Im up in what was once the beautiful Blue Ridge mtns but now just a mess but ill be growing this year. Im doing about 14 plants so ill be busy as a bee this summer. It just seems us Georgia growers are few and far between and so spread out its really hard to meet up with each other.

3/21/2007 9:24:36 AM

Nicholls Georgia

hi doug im in south ga near douglas ga in coffee county i'll be growing 3 plants this year .i told my wife if ihad to pay for every one to eat to get them to meet i would psalm23

3/21/2007 3:35:24 PM

Lilburn, GA

Hi Doug, I'm Monica (NOT Lewinsky) in Lilburn, just east of ATL near Stone Mountain. I've been trolling this site for over 2 years (gettin' some learnin'), and this will be my 2nd year trying for a big pumpkin. Last year all my Dill's went down to squash bug and/or SVB. I ended up with a 50 lb Burpee Prizewinner and lots of Long Island Cheese variety - they seem very hardy in the heat. I went to the Allardt, TN festival last fall and I'm hooked! I grow lots of veggies year 'round, but will try to focus on the pumpkins more this year. Haven't started any seeds yet. Guess I should soon, huh?

3/21/2007 3:52:09 PM

Cairo, Georgia

Hi Doug,
It's me, Ally. You know where I live but for those that don't, I live in SOUTH GA., so close to Tallahasse I can breathe on it. My 698 you sent me has sprouted up out of the ground and it is looking great. 517 in the Garden is doing well. My 735 is in the incubator and I checked a few minutes ago, and it's sprouting away. So looks like my season has finally taken off this time. I have the watermelon seeds going now so we'll see what happens. Welcome all growers from Georgia. Nice to have you here!

Ally

3/22/2007 5:58:04 PM

Carrollton, Ga.

Well Hello All,
Nice to meet you Monica. Now if we can get all the other guys and gals to check in. The list of Georgia growers I know of now are: Doug Adams, Bob Attaway, Ally Glover, Mike Nepereny, Charles Seabolt, Jason D., B, Pumpkin or Broke, jhatcher, David Johnston, and Ray Upchurch. I would like for all of us to meet in the chat room one night. Some of us that have been growing a while may be able to help yall with a few things. How about the ones that can meet tonight in Off topic at 9;00pm. Doug Jn3:16

3/23/2007 12:34:33 PM

Augusta, Ga

Well my name is scott rossman and I live in Augusta. I plan on dropping my seeds into the soil about mid april. My family lives in PA. so I am trying to make my pumpkin last till their late sept weigh-off. Would love to get on and chat with you all just to see how to go about things down here in Georgia. Last year was my first attempt at growing them and ended up with a est. 306 lb. Dang squash bugs and SVB are horrible here. Also PM

3/23/2007 4:43:17 PM

Carrollton, Ga.

HI,
I hung around last night about 45 minutes, if I missed anyone I am sorry. Lets try for another chat next Thursday night at 9:00 pm.

Take care,
Doug
1st Cor. 3:7

3/24/2007 2:56:53 PM

Georgia

Hi Doug, I'll try to drop in next Thursday night. Again, I'm John Hatcher, and my one and only seed will hit dirt around May 1st I think. No room for more than one plant here in Duluth, where my garden space is about, oh, 75 square feet LOL.

It was good talking with you the other night, Lee. And it's very interesting hearing there's another grower in the Metro area, Monica. Lee, if you want to see what a respectable Georga AG looked like, you can check out my diary archives from July, August, and maybe September 2006 - at jhatcher.blogspot.com.

3/24/2007 7:02:48 PM

Flintstone Ga

Hi Doug, I am new to the board, just now stumbled across it. I am in the Northwest corner of GA right below Chattanooga TN. I just bought two packs of seeds and will be planting this weekend. I haven't planted pumpkins in a year or two. I hope they do well. Glad that there are other people out here to talk with. Oh well lets go soak some okra.

Ron Cates

4/28/2007 1:14:08 PM

Carrollton, Ga.

HI Ron Cates,
It is good to have another Ga grower. Most growers on this website perfer the seeds we grow over the store bought ones. We keep up with the genetics of the seeds. You can trace the parents and grandparents of these seeds like a pure breed dog, many generations back. I have plenty of seeds if you would like me to send you some.
Take care, Doug John 3:16

4/29/2007 9:10:48 AM

Flintstone Ga

Yeah I would like some seeds. I have a little bit of room left in one of the gardens. Do I need to send you money or do you give them away? Let me know. Mistercates@hotmail.com

Thanks!

5/3/2007 9:14:34 PM

Augusta, GA

Hello,

I live in Augusta, GA. Last year I talked my way into pumpkin trial with the USDA in Statesboro to grow a new cultivar called Bulldog Red. It was a huge success with many healthy pumpkins averaging about 15-20lbs each. The biggest were perhaps 30+ pounds. Not big but up until now everything just rotted. These plants had Supernatural disease resitance but that goes to show that the Scientists in Statesboro succeeded in theor mission.
I dont spray at all and only one plant had very minor mildew. A friend has a real farm as opposed to my backyard and her plants went wild! I saved seed from the biggest fruits which grew on a plant that was clearly much larger and darker than its peers. It will be fun to see just how big the fruit are this year. I would love to grow a monster but the deep South seems like a brutal place to take up such a challenge.

Jim Farrelly

5/14/2007 11:07:29 PM

Augusta, GA

hey Neighbor!! Nice to see that there is someone local growing pumpkins also. I didn't come into to much problems last year until mid august. Then I got hit first by PM (was overhead watering to late in the evening) and then a real bad case of the SVB. Maybe we can compare notes sometime and see what we come up with.

5/15/2007 2:56:11 PM

Atlanta, Georgia

Michel White here after growing a few years in Germany.
I look forward to making a serious try here for a new pb this year. Hopefully some of the things I learned in Germany will help somebody here, but I bet I need a lot of help from you in controlling pests and all kinds of wierd-looking critters I've never even seen before! (grin)

Good news is that we have a backyard entirely enclosed with a chain-link fence, so that's a start.
I really hope to meet face to face with you folks as soon as possible. I'd love to visit a southern patch once the season has gotten underway in spring. Have little truck, will travel.
Michel

2/26/2008 7:57:32 PM

Atlanta, Georgia

I'll write down Thursday at 9pm and if we could try it every week for a few weeks, maybe it would be a great place to chat.
M

2/26/2008 7:58:59 PM

Atlanta, Georgia

Ally, you started already?
I'm used to setting out plants in Germany around May 10th or so which is the last frost date where I was located.

Is there a specific time most of the growers here get started?
Michel

2/26/2008 8:00:59 PM

Pumpkintown, SC

In my book Michel, that same date works well here too. Of course you could start earlier OR later. Our available growing season is long, though due to all the pressures of growing in the Deep South, our actual fruit growth days are short. What all this equals is whether you want to deal with the heat index closer to the beginning of your fruit growth or closer to the end. Sorry, you can't get around it, BF

2/26/2008 8:47:21 PM

Atlanta, Georgia

Snake Oil,
That's about the same thing Mike Neperenny told me. I'm hoping to be able to display a pumpkin for Halloween. In Germany I rubbed some liquid Calcium on the pumpkins after they were harvested and it kept them nice for quite awhile, and they only went bad after carving them.

Bad thing about this is that the seeds often ended up being too swollen and cracked to use, and hopefully I'll be able to make a good cross or two this year to have something, at least, to share with other growers. I really miss the bubble pack sending and receiving. That's like a long-term Christmas for me.

2/27/2008 6:45:48 AM

Pumpkintown, SC

Is my memory correct? Didn't I read some time back that all your seeds from your previous fruit got gone somehow? No more 497s. That was a keeper. I wish I had a couple for this year. Heck, I wish you had a couple for this year. If you need any seeds or have a specific seed in mind, let me know. I'll see if I have it, BF

2/27/2008 9:10:39 PM

Atlanta, Georgia

Really what happened is that in 2004 I was so messed up from that German beer etc...that I had to get out of Dodge, and I didn't think I'd live long enough to grow again and gave the entire collection to somebody at the weigh-off in Ludwigsburg...except for a few packs of seeds "just in case". Now I do have about 5 seeds from the 497 because I loved that pumpkin and it seems like nobody has tried a selfed 869.5 Calai nor a selfed 801.5 Stelts which are my favorite pumpkins for producing orange. I have one 699.5 Conley which is the 801.5 x 869.5 cross, and a 495 Reiss 04 seed which is the 801.5 x Self. Martin is a very serious grower who I know made a good cross, and he was a good friend for the first few years I grew there.

One of the other guys there that won first place in Germany at Ludwigsburg in 2007 that I knew just sent me some of my own seeds back nicely enough, so I have at least one seed of all the pumpkins again. Bubble pack from him got here yesterday, unexpectedly. Peter Frei is a wonderful grower and person.

I will probably try a 497 White seed myself and I'll be glad to send you one as well, but mostly all of those seeds were pretty hollow and hard to germinate. I have had luck germinating some of them though, but none of my test germinations actually made it to the patch. It's too bad, because I can't be sure it will produce orange...yet. It should be great as a pollinator plant?!?

Good news is that I also sent out seeds every year to over 100 growers or so, so I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to find a 497 White from somebody if it was asked for in the right place.

I'm really grateful how generous all you guys are being with me. Pumpkin growers are some good people!

2/28/2008 1:08:09 PM

Atlanta, Georgia

Snake Oil,
Just send me your name and address and I'll send you a 497 if you want. The second best one I can find at least...(grin).
vitis@vitisearch.com

2/28/2008 1:11:27 PM