Re: Exploding pumpkins - New theory
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Exploding pumpkins - New theory
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 21:42:38 EDT
In a message dated 4/20/99 7:44:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, cmicha@chmc.org
writes:
> 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
Cuttings would not really be the best way to go, for sure, since basically it
would just be different sections of the same plant, and we all know how
totally different pumpkins can grow on one plant. I am really talking about
seeds that are actual clones of each other. If there was some way to split
the genes into two "identical twin" embryos, this could work. Maybe?
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