RE: Exploding pumpkins - New theory
- To: "'pumpkins@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: Exploding pumpkins - New theory
- From: M* C*
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:44:28 -0700
Steve, For a plant patent to be granted the seeds have to consistantly
produce a plant that is true to the descriptive type. If you want to clone
a plant why don't you talk to a Florida grower who has a head start on the
season. They could then take rooted vine cuttings and send them to various
growers around the country and then grow those cuttings in different
environments and conditions and see how they do. This is how new rose
varieties are introduced, although most of them are grafted onto rootstock
from other roses, miniatures are grown on there own roots. Several growers
last year demonstrated that AG plants can produce large fruit without the
main stem and root. I imagine it would not be too difficult to grow a whole
new plant from rooted cuttings of growing vines. The main difficulty would
be shipping them without doing too much damage. By the time the vines are
rooted the leaves are already quite large. I personally wouldn't want to
do it as I have my own experiments and goals in mind. If you could find
others interested in doing this go for it. It would be very interesting to
learn of your results.
Chris Michalec
Covington, WA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SteveS012@aol.com [SMTP:SteveS012@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 4:11 PM
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Exploding pumpkins - New theory
>
> In a message dated 4/20/99 9:46:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> troynayler@golden.net writes:
>
> > There is a control group. The people that issue pvp have 2500 control
> group
> > seeds. And I am sure Ray Waterman has some also. Since he grew the
> controll
> > group for Howard Dill to get his PVP in the USA.
> >
> > Troy
> >
> > troynayler@golden.net
>
> There can be no "true" control unless they are genetic clones....are they?
> This would be interesting!
>
>
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