Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 10 Entries. Monday, June 22 View Page Tomorrow's the day for my 535 plant. Roughly 20ft out with 16 secondaries behind it. A ways ahead of my last seasons pollination date. Fingers crossed! Sunday, June 28 View Page My 535 x 2023 Andrusz seems like the pollination took. 5 dap and looking good so far. Have a major heat wave coming this week so top priority is trying to keep her cool. Also have another further down the main vine that will be ready in the next few days. Thursday, July 9 View Page We made it through the heat wave and the 2 days of heavy rain. Shes 16 DAP and doing great. Monday, July 13 View Page DAP 20 shes coming in at 141lbs. Been averaging 20lbs a day for the last four days. Overall plant is happy and (knock on wood) no pests yet in sight Thursday, July 23 View Page DAP 30 is here and shes taping 410lbs. Its neck and neck with my pb from two years ago. Last 5 days average of 27.5lbs a day. Shooting for 1,000. Hopefully the weather cooperates. Saturday, August 1 View Page Went away for a week on vacation. Had over 3" of rain while I was away. My biggest fear all week came true when i got home today. Split that goes in about 4". Seems like it doesn't go all the way in but hard to tell. Performed surgery on the vine to hopefully relieve some tension, applied alcohol and threw on fans. Now just have to cross my fingers and hope for the best. Saturday, August 1 View Page On the bright side, she averaged 30lbs a day while i was away and nothing was done to it besides the water from the rain. Put on 238lbs while i was gone. 307 OTT at DAP39. Est 682lbs, exactly 100lbs ahead of my pb year same DAP. If she stays together, it will be my pb for sure Thursday, August 6 View Page DAP44 est. 863lbs. Shes been averaging 37.5lbs a day for the last 5 days. By tomorrow it should be my heaviest pumpkin to date. Wednesday, August 12 View Page Things have been going great..up until Monday. Been growing 35-45lbs daily which is the best i have ever done. Then Monday it dropped down to 16. Was really hoping it was just an off day then Tuesday and today it grew only 8lbs. I did find about a foot and a half from the pumpkin , the vine was really mushy. I cut out everything soft and applied alcohol and a fan. Not sure what else can be done. Really hope to make it till the weigh off Thursday, August 13 View Page So my after work inspection proved that the rot was getting worse. I split the main straight through about 15 inches long and cleaned out any rot. I sprayed it with alcohol and have fans on it. I'm hoping that it will dry out and not progress but I feel like those are pipe dreams. At this point I've already got my personal best and would love to just get it to a scale in a little over a month. I did have a thought, what if I cut the main off behind the pumpkin and leave the plant that is out ahead of the pumpkin? Anyone ever successfully do this? Thanks.