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Ohio

Awesome color

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=144507

8/30/2010 6:38:19 AM

British Columbia, Canada

Wow! Beautiful color! Amazing!

8/30/2010 12:56:47 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

That's a beauty!!! Great color!

Here's another one that caught my attention:

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=144471

8/30/2010 1:17:32 PM

Bethlehem CT

Both are very nice.

8/30/2010 3:18:49 PM

Frankfort Ohio

Brooks mine is not huge only in the low 400s but it is a looker check out my diary

8/30/2010 7:09:07 PM

British Columbia, Canada

Take a look at my latest diary entries. Gonna be a real beauty in 10 days!

8/30/2010 7:25:02 PM

Joliet, IL

yep boz, i had to post a pic of teddy's pumpkin once he shot me the email. it made my day yesterday and it was nice talking with him again. i can't wait to see it at the weigh off. he hit the color gene jackpot in the 993 genetics.

8/30/2010 7:46:05 PM

Frankfort Ohio

wish my 993 had that color

8/30/2010 8:04:14 PM

Coventry R.I.

That,s what I call Orange Brook,s, You Can,t beat a Vincent seed,, I grew one as my backup plant,, 1059 late poll,,, but it is turning Great color Orange,,, it was (1059 x Selfed) Just the cross that I wanted,, Its about 215lbs,,,, Will post picture soon.

8/30/2010 8:12:29 PM

Claysburg , PA

Brooks, why did you have to bring up that 993 seed . I was hopeing to get a couple cheap at a auction this year but there goes that idea. You know how I like to try them orange ones. Awesome looking pumpkin.

8/30/2010 8:55:47 PM

Frankfort Ohio

hope the other 2 i got throw orange

8/30/2010 9:02:51 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Wow Brooks, that is nice. My 993 is pretty orange but not like that one.

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=144411

8/31/2010 12:49:07 AM

Ohio

this one isn't orange, but how do you like this monster?,,

I told shaz I wouldn't jinx him like I did last year by telling him how much his 1385 would go heavy over and over,, but I will say this for a fact, and this isn't jinxing him cause I know Im right,, this one is definitely a tad bigger!(not saying its going heavy shaz, just saying your 991 looks bigger,, haaaa! I dont want to jinx,,,lol,,, Its great to see a good bud grow a REAL monster after all his years of trying, I hope you do it shaz!

bring it home shaz,, bring that baby home TO MOMMA!!!,,ha!

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=144666

8/31/2010 7:28:21 AM

Il

brooks, how do i get some seeds from that Orange pumpkin, rookie uyear, so far got a nice orange one about 160lbs and one 310 white one but nothing like that??

Let me know would love to try and grow a pretty orange one like

That

Thanks Tucker

8/31/2010 12:32:00 PM

Joliet, IL

thanks Boz. it has been a silly fun ride but learned from last year that numbers do not mean a thing til they hit the scale. there is no way you jinxed my pumpkin last year with magical "brooksey" powers cuz it only averaged 4" thick across the entire top of the pumpkin and maybe 6" thick on the sides last year with many rib lines with only 2 inch covering. balloon. it grew so fast and was 522 lbs on day 30 last year and then slowed quicker. this one at least was only 23.5" on day 10, found a nice groove and got to 467 on day 30, and stayed with it for awhile longer than last years. i think this has to be better for internal wall thickness developemt. at least i am hoping. Dan Bowles',
Gene McMullens' and Todd & Sequoia Ellenbeckers' 991s all went 5% heavy last year exactly and those were the 3 closest 991s to my proximity and similar shapes. so my guestimate will be that it hopefully will go 5% heavy also. but i have been bitten by the balloon last year...like i said...the scales do not lie and the tape is just the tape. whatever it weighs, it is a big freak that looks like a dragon's head or a giant alligator's head and has been fun as hell to grow to this point. and who says it will make it to scale...still 31 days to go boz...that's a long long time a way...and also more time to grow if i keep'er her going. lol. ya just never know in this damn hobby. and that's why i love it so much.

9/1/2010 2:06:23 PM

Midwest

Remember the 919 Richards?

9/1/2010 6:52:59 PM

Joliet, IL

yep i do greg, my pumpkin that year was 400 lbs different in size from joe's 1159 grown off his 919 and weighed only 163 lbs less. mine heavy..his way light. last year my 1125 and 1173 were 30" ott difference in size and only 48 lbs difference. ya just never know.

9/1/2010 9:22:26 PM

Joliet, IL

should have said his weighed only 163 pounds more than mine. doh!!!

9/1/2010 9:23:21 PM