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Buffalo, MN ([email protected])

Are you willing to share your 2006 goals?

I have three goals for 2006
1. Win the MN St Fair with a 1000lb pumpkin
2. Grow a 1100lb pumpkin and a new MN State Record
3. Average 850+ pounds per plant, counting only one pumpkin per plant.

Bill Foss

12/30/2005 9:36:23 PM

[email protected]

I have 3 goals next year for growing the monster pumpkin.

1. Add a shitload of manure (pun intended) to the patch.
2. Plant only Checkon seeds (most unplanted - yet genetically perfect seeds on the face of God's creation.
3. Not to worry abou things I cannot change, like the weather, yet focus on the things I can influence like powdery mildew control, pest control, soil management, etc.

Happy New Year, time to rededicate myself to this great sport and give it another big shot/push for the 1000 pound mark.

I would also like to give thanks to the growers and friends who have influenced/encouraged me through this rough last 14 months of AG madness.. Larry Checkon, Andy Wolf, Brian Staring, Norm Gansert, Doc Meisner, Matt Teeter, Ned Sandercock, Andy Box, Joe Pukos, Randy and Deb (thanks for the Yuengling last year), Len Knauss (what an awesome man, if you dont know him, you dont know friendship.. wow), and many more I have not forgotten but think the world of!

12/30/2005 10:30:12 PM

Chippewa Falls, WI

1. Beat Bill F at Stillwater
2. Beat Bill F and have a bigger pumpkin at the weigh
off than his Minnesota Record
3. After I Beat Bill...I will be concentrating on
getting the "Great Pumpkin Patch" going. Along
with continuing the friendships That have grown from
this insane hobby.

12/30/2005 10:31:07 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

The last post was made by me. Now I have probably jinxed myself and April will kick my butt in 2006.

12/30/2005 10:33:22 PM

addison Il

my goal is to make more great friends here and too grow a actual giant bigger then 60pds LOL, also to beat my sister in our personal pumpkin weights but all and all to have fun.

12/30/2005 11:05:45 PM

Mill Creek West by god Virginia

my goal this year is to give the west virginia pumpkin record a go to do this i have to eliminate mistakes get plants out early and make sure the start of my season get going without any hitches! ive learned alot and want to say thank you to all my friends here on bp and one last thing to all the west virginia growers watch out burrheads a coming! he he god bless ya

12/30/2005 11:47:56 PM

Newcastle England

you go get em kieth lol

12/31/2005 2:53:58 AM

ENGLAND

My Goal......Let me think...........To grow a Pumpkin, or Squash, heavier than my buddy Alun Jones did this year. 1048 Lbs is going to take some beating but just watch this space !!!!!!

Regards
Mike

12/31/2005 4:04:58 AM

Netherlands

Bill, I have a few goals as well. Don't harrass me if I don't make them though. I have arranged them in order of probability.

1. Grow a bigger pumpkin than last year (454 lbs). Shouldn't be too difficult as I have a new patch, more room and manure, experience, water, etc.
2. Break the 300kg (660 lb) mark. That would get me into the top 5 Dutch pumpkins ever grown.
3. Grow a 530 lb squash. That would break the Dutch record.
4. Get a pumpkin above 833 lbs. That would break the Dutch record.
5. Grow a thousand pounder. That's just for the fun of it and what a lot of us try to achieve.

12/31/2005 4:37:15 AM

Ohio

My goal is to pray someone will grow over a grand with one of my seeds from 05'first, then me to follow. (God said put him first, others second and your self last.) Bill, Pap?,grow em BIG!

12/31/2005 4:52:14 AM

Alex, IN

Here are my goals.

1. Beat my own Personal Best (644 lbs.)
2. Grow a 1000 pounder.
3. Dont let my Dad, Brother or Sister Beat Me!
4. Beat the other two Local Growers.
5. Beat BEACHY!!!

Mikkal

12/31/2005 8:35:12 AM

Norton, MA

1. Prove it can be done on 200 sf.
2. Grow a world record pumpkin and squash.
3. Beat my PB 720.6 by alot with everything.
4. Have my 720.6 grow a monster.
(I don't want to aime (ame?) to low and then stop when I reach that.)
5. Learn to spell!
AleX Noel.

12/31/2005 8:53:58 AM

Southeast

Calm down and have a little more fun. You cant win if you try too hard

12/31/2005 8:55:03 AM

Romney West By God Virginia

My goals are to have fun, hopefully grow a monster or 2 and share the seeds with the people who have helped me. I would also like to be one of the West Virginia growers to help put us on the pumpkin growin' map. I wish everyone the best of luck, but especially the Mountaineer growers!

12/31/2005 9:18:10 AM

Walkerton Ont

1) stay focus
2) Dont slack off
3) Dont Give up so easily
4) Make sure pruning and culling is done all the way through to the end of season, not just 3/4
5) spend more time
6) Grow 1000 lbs finally and not get burned for the 3rd year straight season
7)Do what im Capable of doing, and i should do just fine. lol

12/31/2005 9:26:02 AM

Walkerton Ont

1) stay focus
2) Dont slack off
3) Dont Give up so easily
4) Make sure pruning and culling is done all the way through to the end of season, not just 3/4
5) spend more time
6) Grow 1000 lbs finally and not get burned for the 3rd year straight season
7)Do what im Capable of doing, and i should do just fine. lol

12/31/2005 9:26:02 AM

Western NY

grow a new personal best. as long as i have to jump that high of a hurdle, i want 1500.

12/31/2005 9:26:41 AM

[email protected]

1.) Figure out where I'm going to grow.
2.) Develope a hydroponic system in case #1 fails.

12/31/2005 9:38:14 AM

Mt.Pleasant,Iowa

1) Get one to a weighoff before it goes bad.
2) Grow several 1000 lbers (3 would be great)
3) Have one go over 1100 pounds.
4) Grow a watermelon over 200 pounds.
5) Take a pumpkin to the Iowa State fair.
6) Have fun
7) Make many more new friends on Big Pumpkins.Com

12/31/2005 10:23:55 AM

Michigan

Keep it simple Bigger& Better.

12/31/2005 10:25:41 AM

Roanoke Il

grow one plant. i'll be happy.

12/31/2005 10:32:34 AM

Rhode Island

to win topsfield weighoff on a saturday, penfield beach ct weigh off the next day, then come back and win the sngpg weigh off the following saturday.( with a new all new england record of course )

12/31/2005 10:48:21 AM

Greene R.I.

not if i visit your patch late at nite, pap LOL

12/31/2005 11:25:44 AM

Santa Rosa, CA.

1. share better seeds with all who shared with me.
2. grow a 1000lb AG.
3. beat Vineman in Elk Grove.
4. beat Vineman at local fair.
5. beat Vineman after all the help he gave us. :o) LOL

12/31/2005 12:11:06 PM

Claysburg , PA

My goal is simple this year, win at Altoona with a site record squash. LOL

12/31/2005 12:22:23 PM

My goal is to have a fun year off from serious growing and create the perfect plan to kick all your butts in 2007.

12/31/2005 1:35:06 PM

Mn

1. get my SABE out to you bill!
2. Get a good cloning project going
3. I would like to grow a 1100 pounder but I'll settle for something like 800 to break my PB.
AlexG

12/31/2005 2:04:18 PM

Eugene,OR

Patchy, that sounds like a challenge to me. Bring it on!

12/31/2005 3:23:52 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

Bill,
I'd like to break 800 lbs.
I also hope to make a few nice crosses.
I think the MN state record is about due to fall. It was set in 2002.
It should be a fun year.

12/31/2005 3:48:13 PM

Mocksville, NC

Beating my personal best, and go from there, And get myself a big double lawn,and leaf catcher for my own compost. dont want waste a ton a year no more.

12/31/2005 4:13:13 PM

canal winchester ohio

(1)Try not to overthink things
(2)Try not to focus on one problem so much I miss others
(3)Try to win the 100th annual Circleville Pumpkin Show

12/31/2005 9:10:33 PM

Sort of Sunny Sometimes, WA

To keep my grower diary under 200 entries (tryin' to keep it real. . .) and to grow a pumpkin over 800 lbs.

12/31/2005 9:19:31 PM

Buren Ameland,West Frisian Islands, Netherlands

1. Grow again the biggest pumpkin on Ameland and in the region, in my improved patch with irrigation (dry summer= welcome), plastic greenhouse (against colds spells and summerstorms), extra dung, fertilizer and fishheads.
2. Beat my Personal Best 499 lbs, 226,5kg, easy?!
3. Grow big beautifull shiny orange pumpkins, (good seeds!)
4. Beat the Dutch record and grow at least 900lbs or 400kg!
5. Beat the European record and grow a 1200+lbs or 500+kg...
6. Don't grow squashes. :D

1/1/2006 3:46:07 AM

Cameron,ontario Team Lunatic

1. Grow a new PB
2. Help my close friends grow 1000# pumpkin
3. Spend more time in the garden.
4. Figure out a better watering schedule so I don't blow up most of my pumpkins again.
5. Take a 1000#er to our local fair and to all the Ontario weigh offs.

Phil

1/1/2006 8:04:53 AM

Sequim, WA

Spend more time with my kids.
Spend more time with my wife.
Spend more time fishing.
Have something for the girls to take to a contest.
Have something for the front yard.
Make some genetic crosses.
Make plans to kick butt in 2007.

1/1/2006 1:28:12 PM

Liverpool , England

Just have fun growin' my babies............ nothing else matters ............. New personal best welcome but not the end of the world if I don't manage it.

1/1/2006 3:11:15 PM

Anamosa, IA [email protected]

My goals for 2006:
1. Be thankful that I had great doctors and my shoulders are getting back to normal.
2. Keep my pumpkins in one piece until after the weighoff.
3. Grow a monster on the seed BillF gave me.
4. Make the top 10 at Anamosa. That will be tough considering the competition we have!
Mark

1/1/2006 7:25:35 PM

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Easy goal: Maintain title of "Crazy Pumpkin Guy".
Harder Goal: 1000 pound pumpkin, 700 pound squash
Almost impossible: Win trophy for "Largest Pumpkin Grown in Hants County" Note: Howard Dill lives in Hants county and is the only person to ever win this trophy.
Impossible (but a goal anyway): Beat Leo in the Pumpkin Regatta.

Funny, I think it'll be easier to grow a thousand pounder than to beat a 72 year old man in a giant pumpkin boat race.

1/2/2006 12:35:50 PM