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Sequim, WA

Well while loading up for the Tualatin weighoff I pulled the ultimate bonehead move and dropped my pumpkin as I was raising it up to put on the pallet in the back of the truck. Thats what I get for doing it in the dark alone. I should have put it on the pallet on the ground and then put the forks on and lifted it into the truck, but I don't like to do it in the dark unless I have a spotter. The chain around the bucket did a little spin and dropped it about 4' onto the blossom end and shattered the fruit. So now I have a 650 Michalec 05 est. DMG. Not what I wanted.
It was a sound fruit and evenly thick. I scooped out the seeds and put them in a bucket. The pumpkin will now be fed to the cattle. It was on the 1033 Emmons 04 and the youngest fruit in the patch. OTT at on 9-21 was 313.5".
92" SS 90.5" EE 131" Circ. I briefly thought of loading it up and getting a weight on it anyway, but decided to take a smaller fruit off the 1074 Calai 02 grown on a secondary. Not nearly as big but prettier. I will post some photos of the damage in my diary later this weekend after I return from Tualatin. This pumpkin was pollinated with the 576 Michalec 03 and it looks like I have a decent number of seeds from it. Welll I've had my bad luck, hopefully that's the last of it.

9/24/2005 2:25:34 AM

Spanish Ontario

TILLER that.s a bummer sorry about the bad luck BEST OF LUCK NEXT YEAR KEN

9/24/2005 9:16:05 AM

Puyallup, WA

Sorry for the very bad news, Chris. Do have a safe trip.
Thanks for supporting the weigh-off.

9/24/2005 9:36:02 AM

Grants Pass, Oregon

Sorry to hear that tiller.

9/24/2005 11:14:03 AM

Midwest

That's awful. It'll give you some good seeds.

9/24/2005 4:58:37 PM

addison Il

just goes to show everyone dont say yeah and celebrate until your pumpkin is on the scale anything can happen be care full and tiller that is a bummer but next yr theres always next yr

9/24/2005 5:24:47 PM

Greencastle, PA

maybe you could enter it as a squash.

9/24/2005 6:06:46 PM

Utah

Chris ! ... that's to bad ... sorry I couldn't be there to spot for you.

9/26/2005 10:18:42 AM

Sequim, WA

Well I'll never know what that one actually weighed, but I learned a lesson from it. It could have placed 4th at the Tualatin contest, but I was fortunate to get 6th with the second choice pumpkin. Thank goodness it wasn't the squash I dropped, that ended up being a new PB at 716 lbs. and made my day for me at the weighoff.

9/26/2005 12:49:31 PM

Spokane,WA

Tiller,

You sure know how to make a grown man cry. i thought I had it rough when my son decided to scratch my pumpkin this year....and yes I let him live. Barely

9/26/2005 5:11:05 PM