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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 'big moon'</title> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryView.asp?season=2025&grower=39043&action=L</link> <description>Last 20 Diary Entries for 'big moon'.</description> <language>en-us</language> <copyright>Copyright &copy; 1999-2025 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>06/24/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Squash project. Despite the current heat wave the plants still look ok. I had to pull two plants as they had mosaic. There are some darn pokeweeds next to the patch with mosaic. I am sure it ca...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353781</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353781</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:52:52 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/23/2025 - with photo</title> <description>On my son, Ethan's 2147 Marshall, a few of the vines got cooked on the black plastic today and yesterday. My son Abel's 1668 ciesielski right next to the 2147 is fine.. not sure why one plant exhibit...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353739</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353739</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:30:59 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/12/2025</title> <description>So to wrap up this rabbit hole that started in Horticultural curiosity, yet my original question is still left unanswered. Why don't apples self pollinate? So this is possibly the best explanation ...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353281</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353281</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:40:24 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/12/2025</title> <description>AI Overview Here is the Ai statement again "Most apple trees are not self-fertile, meaning they require cross-pollination from another apple tree of a different variety to produce fruit. This is bec...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353280</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353280</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:31:30 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/12/2025</title> <description>So it got me wondering how are apples actually pollinated and why don't they succesfully self pollinate themselves like a peach or a tomato? The apple has a perfect flower too, just like the peach an...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353279</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353279</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:12:11 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/12/2025</title> <description>My Next few entries are not pumpkin related but are ramblings from a horticultural rabbit hole that I went down that ended with a question about AI. So don't say I didn't warn you!I just watched t...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353277</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353277</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:02:48 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/09/2025 - with photo</title> <description>I love it when things turn out the way you want them to. I pollinated this nice 5 lobe female on my 2465 Sperry plant this morning with my 2301. It is sitting just past 20 feet on the main and has 25...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353172</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353172</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:50:09 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/08/2025 - with photo</title> <description>7 giant watermelons and 3 giant cantaloupes. The weather has been terrible, so I am not as far along as in past years.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353131</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353131</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:29:33 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/01/2025 - with photo</title> <description>I bought one of these jab style planters this year. it saves your back in a lot of instances. It will plant into tilled garden soil or punch right through plastic mulch. If you have a big garden ...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352888</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352888</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 08:38:04 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>05/26/2025</title> <description>I have been reading lots of reports of extremely long main vines (like 10-12' or more) without much or any secondary production. I have a suggestion or an idea that could help with this unfortunate s...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352692</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352692</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 11:39:30 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>05/19/2025</title> <description>It's never to early to start sandbagging, weather has been abysmal. Constant rain and clouds, this week it is going to get even better with cooler temps moving in. The growers who are pushing thei...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352536</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352536</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 08:10:50 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>05/04/2025 - with photo</title> <description>In this picture, we see the different rates of growth in a grafted cantaloupe. The cantaloupe is the 56.2 English and the root stock is a kiwano melon it's supposed to be a good route stock for cantal...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352159</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352159</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 13:21:25 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>05/04/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Let's try this again. The Pumpkin on the left is my son's 1668 ciesielski, the Pumpkin on the right is my other son's 2147 Marshall.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352158</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352158</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 13:19:03 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>05/03/2025</title> <description>Kawano melon rootstock grafted 256.2 English giant cantaloupe look at the difference between the rootstock diameter and the scion diameter. Hopefully this doesn't mean we're gonna have big graft in co...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352134</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352134</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 17:53:19 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>05/03/2025</title> <description>My sons are growing competitively in my place. Abel's 1668 ciesielski on the left, Ethan's 2147 Marshall on the right It was hard for me but I gave up that 2147 seed. Plus also my growing spot!!! B...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352132</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352132</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 17:49:49 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>05/03/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Here they are in their pots.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352129</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352129</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 17:25:11 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>05/03/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Getting ready to plant seeds for my squash, genetics project there are 30 seeds in total. Thank you to Richard Mace for these seeds. Hopefully I get a few greenies. The 2365 Wolf genetics combined w...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352128</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=352128</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 17:23:59 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>04/12/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Oops left these tomatoes out! I woke up to them covered with snow. I didn't expect it!!!</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=351665</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=351665</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:02:11 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>04/02/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Free soil test came back today. It's pretty much just for the pH test. I am surprised how high the pH is. It has been a few years since I added lime.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=351467</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=351467</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:09:13 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>03/26/2025 - with photo</title> <description>This is the Atlantic giant pumpkin patch. my son Ethan and my son Abel will be growing a giant pumpkin this year in this spot. I am taking the year off of giant pumpkins to work on a squash genetics ...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=351341</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=351341</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:38:28 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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