Re: Let's get back to reality
Rock,
Do I have something you want?
Redbone
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyle Rockwell" <rocky.r@cyber-quest.com>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: Let's get back to reality
> I would tend to think the idea of acquiring seds now before the
> weighoffs would be a very smart idea, because people might be less
> willing to trade a seed after they hear 3 800+ pumpkins came from it
> (after the weigh offs) than they would be before, because at that point
> it is still an also ran.. I for one, have to agree with Andrew, give me
> a one in ten chance at 1000 pounds, or a guaranteed official weight of
> 600 pounds, and Ill take the 1 in ten chance every time..
> My buddy Mark Elsbree, the king of our local wiegh off said it best...
> If I know I dont have a shot at a big one, and had to settle on 5-6
> hundred pounds each and every year, I think the next seed planted in my
> patch would be grass seed..."... Long live the king...
>
> Rocky Rockwell
> http://www.pgpga.com
>
> Orange is nice, but green is keen.......
>
> Bill VanIderstine wrote:
> >
> > Hey Guy's & Gal's:
> > Let's get back to reality, if it doesn't make the weighoff, its not
> > official, it's like the
> > fish that got away. We all seem to be honing in on a maybe &
> > forgetting the ones that are
> > going the route. I myself, am growing both this year, 926 maybe, 914
> > official, no comparison,
> > the unofficial is just that, a maybe, the official is doing well at
> > the present time.
> > Let's give credit to the ones that credit is due to, weighed off , not
> > the ones that might
> > have made it if something had been different, there are thousands of
> > them in North America that
> > we never hear about because that is the difference between Champion &
> > maybe.
> > Don't get me wrong, the 825.5 grows big pumpkins, I have the seed but
> > am to chicken to
> > try it, as most have not made a weighoff to my knowledge, they were
> > big though, my 926 is the
> > second generation of this seed.
> > Last year we heard the same story from Ontario, I think it was a lady,
> > big pumpkins that never
> > are there in the end.
> > Let's wait for the weighoff's and then we know which seed we should be
> > seeking. Just my opinion.
> > Thanks,
> > Bill Van Iderstine
> > Personal Best 862
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