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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 'BlossomDown'</title> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryView.asp?season=2025&grower=79183&action=L</link> <description>Last 20 Diary Entries for 'BlossomDown'.</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>07/10/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Should have named her Cindy!</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354340</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354340</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 02:27:37 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/05/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Sassy the Squash. I don't think the wood shavings are a great idea but for now they are supporting (and shading) the squash.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354157</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354157</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:06:11 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/05/2025 - with photo</title> <description>I'm going to call this 10 DAP. 22 1/2 inches.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354154</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354154</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 13:59:46 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/04/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Squash culls. The largest (top) is 10% larger by volume than the one I kept, pollinated on the same day. Would it have been a better choice? Perhaps, but I would have had to pull more precious root...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354130</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354130</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 01:46:37 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/04/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Happy 4th of July! Marking tape fireworks? Squash blossom down... Maybe. Did damage the vine in the process.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354127</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354127</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:07:54 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/04/2025 - with photo</title> <description>And one more try.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354125</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354125</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:19:16 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/04/2025 - with photo</title> <description>A paltry 5 lbs per day/ est 30 lbs at day 25? It thinks its a field pumpkin. It feels like a rock though, dense and heavy, so I think it may still be in cell division mode. And the first thing abou...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354124</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354124</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:16:45 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/04/2025</title> <description>A paltry 5 lbs per day/ est 30 lbs at day 25? It thinks its a field pumpkin. It feels like a rock though, dense and heavy, so I think it may still be in cell division mode. And the first thing abou...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354123</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354123</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:03:30 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/03/2025</title> <description>Plants are acting low in zinc. Which is weird. That was one of the nutrients they tested high in earlier in the year. Of course the plants are much larger and all the little females (and males) m...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354114</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354114</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:57:17 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>07/02/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Left: Squash on the 1677. Sibbed. I had a different one in mind but it was a bit lethargic. Right: 1448 Bongers is lethargic, it has a bit of the shrivel-butt thing so it won't reach its full po...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354044</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=354044</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:23:14 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/30/2025</title> <description>Pumpkin measures 33 1/2 cc day 21? Terrible! Would be a nice sized tomato though... don't know what to say other than I probably shouldn't be getting the foliage wet all day long. Plant looks grea...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353983</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353983</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:13:00 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/27/2025 - with photo</title> <description>The 2054 Strickler is a nice big long pumpkin, DAP 12 hrs... but this was x open so I'm going to wait until next week for a different blossom. I havent done a long-shaped pumpkin blossom-down. I th...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353894</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353894</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 05:42:29 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/25/2025 - with photo</title> <description>West side of patch. My kid cut off the main vine pumpkin, which would have been on the south side. Culled the pumpkin on this side. Patch is 95% filled. Good timing for pushing the pumpkin, maybe ...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353807</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353807</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 04:33:57 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/24/2025 - with photo</title> <description>150 sq ft patch. Pumpkin is about as big as a grain of rice :( So I circled it in red. 1448 Bongers x self. DAP 15 or so. Nothing to be proud of.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353804</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353804</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:42:00 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/24/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Set up to grow blossom down. Is pine shavings a bad idea for under a pumpkin? The calcium got a bit low today, this will hinder the pumpkin a bit. But the plant is only 150 sq ft, so its going to b...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353801</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353801</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:28:51 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/20/2025 - with photo</title> <description>A wild cat family moved in. They all look very well fed. So maybe the momma is a good mouser... Or maybe she is hunting birds</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353603</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353603</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 02:41:27 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/20/2025 - with photo</title> <description>Its not touching the ground! Trying to get it to bend to go blossom down. 1448 Bongers in 150 sq ft... DAP 11? Small, but I'm not worried about the size... The 1677 was the same size. Slow a...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353602</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353602</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 02:36:25 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/10/2025</title> <description>I like to learn from my mistakes but sometimes there's not much to learn. Ugh. This year is not going great.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353221</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353221</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 01:40:49 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/09/2025</title> <description>1448 Bongers x self today. 2nd attempt after my youngest child unilaterally decided the first one wasn't going to be our keeper.</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353187</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353187</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 02:19:24 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>06/06/2025</title> <description>Had a flawless start with the 1448 Bongers and looked great and the forcast is good but my youngest son cut the pumpkin off. Not sure what the plan is now. I like to try new things and the new thing...</description> <link>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353039</link> <guid>http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=353039</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:57:26 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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