Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 8 Entries. Thursday, June 25 View Page 1849.5 Adkins. So the plant grew like this and it's "first" female blossom came exactly after "16 secondaries". 2nd attempt and 2nd blossom at 20 secondaries in a day or 2 Thursday, June 25 View Page 1849.5 X 2501 Dap4 Friday, June 26 View Page 2501x2026 Dap14. I have both plants growing side by side in same direction. Never could make a culling decision so I just cut off the inner secondary vines and let only one side of secondaries grow so they wouldn't cross. There are only 5 secondaries behind this pumpkin but I continue to grow main. No reasoning Saturday, June 27 View Page I have always had a hard time throwing away extras so I decided to try something with these. I let them grow on their side in a 1 gallon pot after I removed the 1st leaf until they grew themselves upright. Then I planted the rootball horizontally on top of soil vs vertically in a hole. They each vined a-ok. This is 1 month, I'll just keep em going in opp directions but yes I like the easy start Sunday, June 28 View Page This is my water supply for drip lines. 20,000 gallons of really old dirty pool water :-) Monday, June 29 View Page Bubba's sunflowers hit 6' today. Thursday, July 2 View Page 2501 x 2026 DAP 21- 54" circumference, 39" side to side. No potassium added yet but I will probably start to add some gradually in near future . That's my plan Thursday, July 2 View Page 1849.5 x 2501 DAP 11-Growing good but I'm not sure about this one. It was sweating some sap all over quite severely today. I'm not sure if that is something that normally happens in 100 degree temps.? Another strange thing that is happening is that every time I move the pumpkin to position it the stem actually bends back towards the main. My stem has the shape of a banana and the curve is worsening. Lol oh well