Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 15 Entries. Monday, January 19 View Page Please join me for a mail haul! Monday, January 19 View Page Package 1: My magic white fabric. I know it looks more grey here but trust me its bright white once its out in sunlight. I loved this specific fabric and would never use any other. I couldn't find it on Amazon anymore so I tracked down the factory in China that makes it and bought some in bulk. The amount I got should last me for at least 2 years and probably 3 if I continue growing around 2400sqf of plant. Monday, January 19 View Page Package 2: Jim Ford's book. I really like Moby Mike's video with Jim ford and he seems like a funny guy and a good grower so I thought I'd get his book. I'll let you know what I think. Also, watching too much TikTok over the winter has melted my brain so I need to start reading again lol. Monday, January 19 View Page Package 3: A 2154 Sperry from the SNGPG auction. Last spring, Steve offered me a 2 pack of these and I declined because I had too many good seeds already (Including his 2465 and 2198). I think this is without a doubt the most slept on seed currently and I hope to see high level growers plant it this year. Tuesday, January 20 View Page Package 4: I traded some seeds for this cool paleolithic weapon with a guy on Facebook. I feel like this deals +10% extra damage to forest demons or something. Sunday, February 8 View Page Found this on the merch page. A great last minute valentines gift! Thursday, February 12 View Page In the game Pokemon X/Y there is a Pokemon named Pumpkaboo. It's a haunted jack-o-lantern/bat creature and it comes in a variety of sizes: small, medium, large and giant. Every time you encounter a Pumpkaboo there is a 1% chance it's giant. It looks like kid Nick liked giant pumpkins too because I caught 14 of them for some reason. Thursday, February 19 View Page I got to meet with some great growers last night like Jim Ford, Travis Gienger, Brandon Dawson, Russ Pugh, Dave chan and many others. Here are some of the conclusions I drew from our discussion: - In the early season, temperature is king. This includes both soil and air temperature so you must control both if you want an early pollination. In about 2 months I'll show you how I intend to do that. - Almost every high level grower waters multiple times a day and it seems like the more often you water the better. Last year I watered 1x-2x per day depending on rain and I'm going to try to increase that drastically. I'm not 100% sure how i'm going to do that but I have some ideas. - It seems like high level growers are very split on biology. Almost all the guys in this call were very pro biology but then you have guys like Matt D, Steve Geddes and others who don't really buy into the hype and they grow huge pumpkins. I think I'm going to take the middle road and only use Rootshield+ (Tons Tuesday, February 24 View Page I'll never doubt that f-ing groundhog again. Saturday, March 14 View Page These 2 felted cats were made by Maurice. They are modeled off of my girlfriend's cats and she loved them! He made one more thing but I can't reveal that one yet... Thursday, March 19 View Page Practice seedlings: This year I am planning on transplanting my seedlings only once, from these 18oz "solo cup" sized clear cups directly into the ground after I get a glimpse of the 1st true leaf direction. I think the less time spent under grow lights and in a pot the better. Given my horrible track record of grow tent failures I think it's best to minimize my time growing indoors. These are just in Jiffy seed starting mix. I am keeping bags over them to create a warm/humid microclimate. The clear cups will allow me to see how rootbound these get in their 1 week of life. Monday, March 23 View Page Cots w/ cupped and burnt edges and 1st true leaf w/ deep wrinkling and burnt edges. These are in 100% seed starter so there's no chance it's nutrient burn. I swear the LED light panel's I've used since 2024 are just not good for pumpkins because my seedling are either burnt to hell or leggy, and they get this yellowing/necrosis either way. I grew my seedlings in a mini greenhouse last year w/ natural sunlight and they looked great so that makes me think it's a light issue as well. Wednesday, March 25 View Page Strange Soil Report: - PH has dropped from 6.5 to 6.0. It may have just been the samples I took but that's strange because I've put down a lot of lime over the past 2 years. Lime is cheap so that's not the end of the world. - Soil texture is now loam and my CEC has gone from 11 to18 which I love to see. - OM has stayed the same. I was going to add a few yards of leaf compost but seeing as my CEC has gone up and my PH has gone down, I don't really feel the need to do this given my history of soil disease. - Phosphorus has doubled even though I haven't added anything heavy in P and I fertilize with low P blends. That's just a mystery. - Calcium has increased by about 40% which is awesome. Most likely due to last years 600+lbs of gypsum. - Potassium Has increased by about 40% as well which is good. I'm still going to have to add some 0-0-50 or langbeinite. - Magnesium has dropped a negligible amount. I'm not sure how to add magnesium that will "stick around". I feel like Epsom salts will just wash away after a few rainy days. - Manganese has slightly dropped. Once again I'm not sure how to get manganese sulfate to stick around. - Boron has stayed the same. I'm going to add amino acid chelated boron this year instead of borax since I have a feeling it will stay in the soil longer. Time to play around in the Langley calculator. Sunday, March 29 View Page 720lbs of gypsum. We don't have much calcium in our soil here in Connecticut so this is our best option. Sunday, March 29 View Page Here's how the Langley calculator is looking. I wasn't sure what to add for hydrogen PPM so I think the base saturation section is off. Yesterday at the SNGPG spring meeting, Steve Sperry told me something to the effect of "Don't try to make everything perfect, just push things in the right direction" and thats how I'm feeling about this plan. Will every ratio be near perfect? No, but they're either close or headed in the right direction.