Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 14 Entries. Wednesday, January 10 View Page Turned in one yard of composted cow manure.   Tuesday, April 9 View Page Started.2 seeds today. Shaves, soaked in water and humic acid. Love 892.   Saturday, April 13 View Page 1 0f 2 germinated.   Wednesday, April 17 View Page Shaved and soaked back ups. Chan 1743 (est) 2356 mendi x 2183 mendi)   Saturday, April 27 View Page Green house up. Heater in the foreground and fan in background connected to heat/cooling controller. With the variances, ideally it doesn't get much over 30C, or under 13C. Trial run for 2 days monitoring temps then the transplant. Soil heaters on.   Saturday, April 27 View Page Green house up. Heater in the foreground and fan in background connected to heat/cooling controller. With the variances, ideally it doesn't get much over 30C, or under 13C. Trial run for 2 days monitoring temps then the transplant. Soil heaters on.   Monday, April 29 View Page Giants transplanted! After 2 days of testing, the coolest was 15.6 C and warmest was 25 C. The outside temp last night was 4 C and it was cooking hot this afternoon. Center plant is the Love 892 and two outside back ups Chan 1743.   Thursday, May 23 View Page Fist day of burying vines. Glad for the hoop house this year as it is unseasonably cool. Pulled one back up.....   Saturday, June 8 View Page Removed the warming tent today. She is about 12' long. A female pumpkin flower out around 10'. I've never successfully pollinated the first female, perhaps this is the year ?? Considering how our nights have been cool. Between 6 to 9° this plant is thriving. Really hoping it will explode with all this warm weather.   Friday, June 14 View Page Pollinated the first one today. Beautiful four lobes. About 10 ft out. Fortunately the rain held off. How to make a makeshift cover. The weather is cool and wet this weekend with loads of seven and highs of 11. The earliest pollination for me very optimistic   Sunday, June 23 View Page Came home from 5 day trip and observing the massive growth is what it is about   Monday, June 24 View Page These two are open polinatted. Most likely opened on the 23rd.   Sunday, June 30 View Page Pollinated this beauty about 16' out. Sprayed for aphids and PM.   Thursday, July 4 View Page About three square feet left in the patch to fill. This thing's loving the sunshine and heat. Have yet to successfully pollinate. Whoever there's one about 18 ft out just on the grass in a perfect position to grow it right beside the sidewalk ??????