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Esneux / Liège / BELGIUM

It would be interresting to know what we have this year.
Just post your best result, or all your results, at the end of the season.
Good luck.

Sophie

9/17/2004 8:52:28 AM

In the shade - PDX, OR

Sophie - I'm wondering how your 977 Hester is doing.
Did it grow well for you?

9/17/2004 12:55:10 PM

Hilpoltstein, Bavaria, Germany

so far:

182kg off the 783 Daletas and 141,5kg off the 845 Bobier.

Biggest ones are still growing...

Martin

9/17/2004 7:01:21 PM

France

i made 258.7kg whith my 596 duchezeau and i will probably do the same with my 784 duchezeau (weight tomorow)
I had good weather this year, but really better than german one.

david

9/17/2004 11:03:47 PM

Cologne / Germany

Oops, don´t we have two more weeks before it´s over here? I´ll weigh the pumpkins on 4 bathroom scales Oct 2nd, official weights on a certified scale Oct 3rd. Good luck, Ingo

9/19/2004 5:00:10 PM

Wroclaw, Poland (51 N, 17 E)

I'll weigh my pumpkins on 9th or 10th October, but the estimated weight is about: 100kg, 50kg and 25kg

9/20/2004 9:22:39 AM

Esneux / Liège / BELGIUM

My only squash (895.5* Hester) splitted at 144 kg. I've got some seeds, but there are open pollinisated.
My 977 Hester is still doing well. She is cream pink with no split at all... It seems to be a great seed for a great grower (I would say that a grower more exprerimented than me).
I couldn't be at Duisburg, so I will go to a very local weighoff. Pumpkins will be cut and weigh this week-end.
I haven't made mesurements but I hope 4 between 150-200 kilos (perhaps more?), and two others for Halloween lantern, perhaps 50 kilos each.

9/20/2004 10:22:48 AM

Sancoins / Cher / FRANCE

I have just cut 2 fruits a fact 251Kg or 552.8Lbs and the other 304 kg is 669.6 Lbs, it remains there in me another 10 to cut by October 8

9/24/2004 1:12:49 PM

Belgium Europe

My second best fruit 270kg est. was weighed today : 306kg.Next friday at 11 am local TV is coming to film the harvesting of my best fruit 340kg est. Hope it keeps together and that it goes over as much as the one today :). But i'm allready very happy with the 306kg for my first AG year.

9/25/2004 9:21:08 AM

Knopp, Germany

Jos, that is a great job for a first year grower, congrats!

9/25/2004 11:23:36 AM

Atlanta, Georgia

I'd be very happy with that this year Jos!
Good Job!
Michel

9/26/2004 3:16:12 AM

Esneux / Liège / BELGIUM

186 kg with my 784.4 Duchezeau
190 kg with my 935 Needham
196 kg with the 638 Oslen.
I still have the 977 Hester in the garden. Perhaps more than 200 kg? (just 201?!)

Jos and I went to the same exhibition....My AG was terribly small...but I'm very happy with my results, new PB, and hope to do better next year. Good luck to you all.


Sophie

9/27/2004 7:53:29 AM

Cologne / Germany

Great job Jos! I should think about a pumpkin greenhouse for next year:-)
Ingo

9/27/2004 10:41:52 AM

Wroclaw, Poland (51 N, 17 E)

Yeah. .big greenohuse would be wonderfull, but it is a lot of work and costs... and my father wouldn't allow me build anything even a litle bit ugly in garden, and foil greenhouse is more than litle ugly :-)

9/27/2004 2:35:34 PM

Belgium

my pumpkin was estimated at 370 kg but on the scale it weiged 401 kg! Next saturday i'm going to Duisburg with it.

9/28/2004 1:07:06 AM

Esneux / Liège / BELGIUM

Well Done, Jantje. Belgium is really a good place to grow AG!
Sophie

9/28/2004 2:37:59 AM

Caceres, mid west of Spain

My 1097.5 will be weihged very soon. We'll see.

Carlos

9/28/2004 3:24:23 AM

Belgium Europe

416kg or 914lbs ott was 340".First place in Belgian weigh-off
jos

10/3/2004 4:03:34 PM

Sweden

337,5 or 744 lb. New personal best and only 6 kg under swedish record. Maybe I move to Belgium next year.... Well done jos!!
/Lars

10/3/2004 4:33:43 PM

Cologne / Germany

My first 2 places on the NRW state fair today:
307 kg / 684 lbs (+ 9 % heavy) for my 1236 Eaton x 1260 Weir,
277 kg / 617 lbs (+ 24 % heavy) for my 1260 Weir x 1236 Eaton.
Though it doesn´t sound much but that´s also the 2 best german results for 2004 as I heard from Martin Reiss tonight.
Come on german growers, that means work next year! What was wrong in 2004 (apart from the weather)? Maybe a new thread should be started to clear it up.
However, congrats to all,
Ingo

10/3/2004 5:34:50 PM

Atlanta, Georgia

Ingo,
I think it was mainly poor weather this year and that your pumpkins may have been about one third larger had the weather been better. I can't see any other explanation
for all of the small pumpkins other than the normal mistakes that most growers make who don't have 30 years of experience.

Congrats on a new German record and it shouldn't matter whether it's official or not since the Ludwigsburg weigh-off is also not a GPC or WPC weigh-off site anyway.
Michel

10/4/2004 12:28:06 AM

Germany (Kirchheim / Bavaria)

Michel, Ingo`s pumpkins are great - I like their shape, but the heavier one is no "new German record". Steffen Heckelmanns second place pumpkin 2003 and my own pumpkin (third place 2003 with 323,9kg) had been a little bit heavier. I don`t "count" the first place (2003) of E. Zygadlo, because it was a squash.

10/4/2004 2:08:25 PM

Hilpoltstein, Bavaria, Germany

Peter,
I guess Michel meant that Ingo's pumpkin is the biggest in Germany this year. I am pretty sure that he is aware of the existence of those two larger ones from last year...

Martin

PS: we arrived safely at home. Pumpkins and your clone are in excellent condition! Thanks again! Waiting for your pictures now....

10/4/2004 4:25:03 PM

Atlanta, Georgia

Martin,
There was something in a newspaper about Peggy Zygadlo having a new german record this year. Did anyone see anything like that in the paper? I have to try to get a copy of it and read the article but that's what I heard from Otto Gann who was so pleased with his first place that he helped me fill the trailer with his horse manure after we downloaded his pumpkin. I brought it to the home patch...

Thanks for the diary pictures Martin too!
Michel

10/5/2004 1:32:10 AM

Atlanta, Georgia

And yes Martin, the Zygadlo pumpkin and yours in 2003 were as squashy as they come so they definitely don't count as pumpkins!
Michel

10/5/2004 1:34:05 AM

Atlanta, Georgia

Sorry folks!
The article in the paper says only that Peggy Zygadlo
was NOT at the weigh-off this year....

Guess I need to brush up on my German and I should have
recognized Martin's and Peter's pumpkins in the picture...
Michel

10/5/2004 2:26:48 AM

Esneux / Liège / BELGIUM

208 kg from the 977 Hester 03. This is my PB this year. The pumpkin is cream pink, without any split.
I'm very happy with this result.

10/14/2004 6:19:24 AM

Itzetown City

Congrats Sophie good job!
After it was´nt abel to take a fruitset on the main, my 977 did a very late fruitset on a secondary. But I give that fruit a blast at the size of 100 lbs, probably with to much calcium power. It was a good looking white/cream one. Sorry I get only 1 seed from Bret, I would try em again next year.

10/14/2004 6:36:46 AM

Wroclaw, Poland (51 N, 17 E)

156kg or 344lbs

10/14/2004 3:49:06 PM

Itzetown City

No, 25 kg 0-0-60

10/14/2004 6:22:59 PM

Esneux / Liège / BELGIUM

I had only one 977 too...I think I will ask Brett to have one more this year. It was a great plant.

10/15/2004 2:46:23 AM