Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 37 Entries. Wednesday, June 4 View Page I grew a special bioengineered "smart" rye that responds to pumpkin biomarkers. It automatically breaks down into the soil all by itself when these biomarkers are present. � Sunday, July 13 View Page saw this today on the 2009. went all in with one plant this year and well I guess I chose poorly � Sunday, July 13 View Page The exterior shape seemed ok � Sunday, July 13 View Page blossom end is literally millimeters thick, this thing was doomed from the beginning � Sunday, July 13 View Page This one was day 19 and put on 7in cc overnight and 15 ott. About 670 sq feet with no pumpkin, There are 2 opening up on secondarys tues or wed. � Saturday, July 19 View Page 2009 Wallace over 650 sq feet of plant. Now 6 side vine pollinations are in place. 1(7-15) 3(7-17)-2(7-19) One is on a secondary trained as the new main as the original main aborted on its own with 3 pumpkins on the main. The largest split 7-13 and the other aborted. The biggest is the 7-15 pollination its on a secondary that is about 11-12 feet from the stump. 3 are on the 1st 3 secondaries after the stump which are very thick. � Sunday, July 27 View Page 2009 that split on 7-13. Early shape was probably an indicator of a problem. � Sunday, July 27 View Page 2009 plant is biggest single plant I have grown. posts are holding line that supports shade netting. This was enough plant to push a very large pumpkin � Sunday, July 27 View Page Gigantic stump with ZERO leakage, foaming or problems with my size 13 muck boot next to it � Sunday, July 27 View Page Living outside buffalo NY we do don't often see wildlife beyond birds, rabbits and deer. This guy is protecting these side vine pollinations � Sunday, July 27 View Page Day 11 selfed 2009, did 4 in cc overnight for 30in cc. This pumpkin is on an actual side vine, not one trained as the new main. The origin of the vine is at about 11 feet from the stump. You can see that this 2009 did not want to throw symmetric pumpkins, this one is not as bad as the earlier one that split. � Sunday, July 27 View Page 100 Podraza fp. Grew the 100 last year off the 81 wolf. Started that seed on 7-5-13 when I cut out half my 1872 due to rot. Pollinated on 8-22 and it got to 100#. This one was started june 15th but with the cold and rain and being tucked in the corner its just starting to run. I am thinking this will be for decorations as opposed to competition but if I can get a pollination by august 15th I may keep only 2 on the plant. � Wednesday, August 6 View Page 7-15 pollination split. Every and I mean every pollination on this plant grew a crooked blossom that splits open day 18-25. I stil have 4 on but they all have crooked blossums as well. � Wednesday, August 6 View Page shoulders were great on this one was way heavy at about 150# � Wednesday, August 6 View Page same type of split as the other as the cavity forms it opens all the way to the blossom and pops � Wednesday, August 6 View Page As you can see the blossom end is thick but it split the flesh apart � Sunday, August 31 View Page 100 Podraza 2013 FP day 20 118in ott, doing 6 in daily. Interesting only 1 pollination on this plant all others are shriveling up. Last year I did not pollinate till aug. 22 so I should be able to break 100. we wont talk about the giants � Tuesday, October 28 View Page 428 Podraza (2009 selfed) late pollination on a plant that split everything until august. Wegmans purchased this pumpkin for their sales display. It looked better earlier this month when they had more pumpkins around it � Saturday, November 1 View Page some Halloween carvings, this witchs face side view turned out well � Saturday, November 1 View Page this one was pretty good as well. � Tuesday, November 18 View Page Absolutely crazy lake effect snowfall 3+ feet since last night and back up to 3 inches per snowfall. � Tuesday, November 18 View Page took me 2 hours to clear just the sections in the pics, 3 feet of snow then about 2 inches of slush/ice at the bottom � Wednesday, November 19 View Page dug a path to street the fence is 4 ft high and the level of snow in the street is the same � Wednesday, November 19 View Page front of garage, those cypress trees are about 10-11 feet high (over 40 years old), Ive been knocking snow off them so they don't break. They finally filled back out this season after the October 2006 storm that broke a lot of limbs. � Wednesday, November 19 View Page view across the street � Wednesday, November 19 View Page I don't think 4x4 will help with this. That's a full size f150 � Wednesday, November 19 View Page driveway opening that shrub is 10 ft � Wednesday, November 19 View Page This might not look bad but the shrubs are bent down from about 12 foot and the black railing that you can sort of make out is about 5 ft from the ground � Wednesday, November 19 View Page here is the front of the truck � Thursday, November 20 View Page that pile is over 7 feet high � Thursday, November 20 View Page again the chain link fence is 4 ft � Thursday, November 20 View Page That's the pile created on my corner by the hylift and you can see the snow on the roof. I went around the house with a roof rake to lessen the load up there � Thursday, November 20 View Page another view, hard to tell the magnitude as everything is white. � Friday, November 21 View Page snow pile after taking it off the back of roof, gutters are 12 ft high � Friday, November 21 View Page hard to tell but I took quite a bit of snow off the front of the roof. I was more worried about the back and side hip where in the last pic it was easily 5 feet deep at the edge. � Friday, November 21 View Page Giant pile in the road, still only a single lane sort of opened. � Friday, November 21 View Page standing on top of the giant pile, did not realize how high it was till I was up there, you can see the amount of snow removed from the side hip, and the pile it left. �