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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"> <channel> <title>BigPumpkins.com Diary for 'krayfish'</title> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryView.asp?season=2026&grower=141151&action=L</link> <description>Last 20 Diary Entries for 'krayfish'.</description> <language>en-us</language> <copyright>Copyright &copy; 1999-2026 BigPumpkins.com. All rights reserved.</copyright> <webMaster>info@bigpumpkins.com</webMaster> <generator>BP RSS FeedGen</generator> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <image> <title>BigPumpkins.com</title> <url>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/images/newlogo_232x70.jpg</url> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/</link> </image> <item> <title>10/12/2025 - with photo</title> <description>The final 'product' of my first try growing a giant pumpkin. 1526 Miller seed, plant grown across two raised beds and a ground-level side bed. Total of about 300 square feet to root into plus a fence...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356665</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356665</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 09:26:49 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>09/20/2025 - with photo</title> <description>1526 Miller still slowly putting on the pounds at 78 DAP, roughly 3-5 lb per day over the last 10 days. Measured OTT 310 today (699 lb). Only about 1/3 of the original vine and leaves are somewhat he...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356168</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=356168</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:22:03 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>08/26/2025 - with photo</title> <description>1526 Miller plant is starting to show age and wear-and-tear. Suddenly a lot of squash bugs of all ages + eggs, and scattered light powdery mildew. Trying to keep those from getting out of control with...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=355648</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=355648</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:32:23 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>08/26/2025 - with photo</title> <description>1526 Miller plant is starting to show age and wear-and-tear. Suddenly a lot of squash bugs of all ages + eggs, and scattered light powdery mildew. Trying to keep those from getting out of control wi...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=355647</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=355647</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:30:48 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>08/05/2025 - with photo</title> <description>1526 Miller plants seems to be hanging in there despite another heatwave and minimal care-taking while I was away for 9 days. OTT = 239", estimated wt. 320 lb, 32 DAP. Days 20-25 it was averaging ab...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=355100</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=355100</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:31:55 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/20/2025 - with photo</title> <description>This youngster (16 DAP) is looking good, to a 1st timer/unexperienced eye at least! Its gained an estimated 11, 12, and 15 lbs the last 3 days. Going away for 8 days this week with my son in charge o...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354609</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354609</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:29:26 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/17/2025 - with photo</title> <description>An ambitious 4'x 4' board perhaps? 1526 Miller pumpkin is really taking off, OTT at 99, calculated wt at 25 lbs 13 DAP, about 3 days ahead of where my 656 Domke was. The 2nd and 3rd pollinations on t...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354519</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354519</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:28:57 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/09/2025 - with photo</title> <description>1st 1526 Miller at 5 DAP. Seems to be growing nicely in spite of the suspect pollen source (see July 4th entry). I kept all the targeted female flowers and pollen-source flowers tied shut or covered ...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354292</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354292</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:45:18 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/06/2025 - with photo</title> <description>The 656 Domke pumpkin pictured at 21 DAP, OTT 136, estimated 63 lbs. Gained 11 lb the prior 24 hr. But as of 09-Jul it has only gained an average of about 8-9 lb each of the last few days. I'm star...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354289</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354289</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:37:50 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/04/2025 - with photo</title> <description>On July 4th I finally had a 1526 Miller flower to pollinate. Nice looking flower with 6-lobed stigma. Used 656 Domke pollen, some of which was frozen a week or two prior, and some of which came from...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354285</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354285</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:31:49 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/30/2025 - with photo</title> <description>The one pumpkin I have going at this point is very lopsided, which I'm guessing isn't ideal. I'll keep it on at least a little longer and track its growth but If I can establish a better one on the p...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353976</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353976</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:30:45 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/30/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Still only a single pumpkin going, a 656 Domke (self) but a few female flowers on the 1526 Miller plants look promising for 3-4 days from now. Really hoping to get a cross pollination going for at lea...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353975</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353975</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:27:18 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/23/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Now I've lost the growing tips of both 1526 Miller plants due to wind. Lesson learned: keep the wind shield up permanently and always support the last 2-3' of the main stem at multiple locations, incl...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353722</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353722</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:15:53 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/21/2025 - with photo</title> <description>I guess the permethrin or malathion or imidacloprid is working (maybe its the imidacloprid since there are also dead cb's in a newly opened flower that was never sprayed). I'm trying to remove any ex...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353638</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353638</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:56:31 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/20/2025 - with photo</title> <description>5 DAP. Amazed at how fast these plants and the pumpkin grow. The patch is getting full sun from roughly 9am till 4pm with spotty and indirect sun the rest of the day. Keeping the pumpkin shaded with ...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353578</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353578</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:02:15 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/19/2025 - with photo</title> <description>The patch as of today. Two 1526 Millers at opposite ends of the bed on the left, one 656 Domke in the bed on the right. The Millers are about 2 weeks behind the Domke. Beds are 24'x4' with another 4'...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353577</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353577</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 08:15:09 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/20/2025 - with photo</title> <description>The pumpkin was in a pretty tight crotch of the main and a secondary so I've been moving those two vines out of the way, a little bit each day. Since the soil in the bed is mounded up towards the mid...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353576</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353576</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 08:04:19 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/19/2025 - with photo</title> <description>The 656 pollination seems to have been successful.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353574</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353574</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:56:15 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/15/2025 - with photo</title> <description>I decided to pollinate the first female flower (656 Domke) with a male flower from same plant ("self") even though it is only 8' out on the vine and isn't a cross with 1526 Miller, mostly just for pra...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353573</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353573</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:52:59 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>05/16/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Two 656 Domke plants transplanted and growing nicely in spite of unusually cool, cloudy and rainy spring. Drip irrigation hose installed on right side bed, not in left side bed (which will probably b...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353552</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353552</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 19:40:10 GMT</pubDate> </item> </channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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