Re: Let's get back to reality
I cant just pay you a compliment without an alterior motive?
Still growing .... 139-89.5-93=321.5"OTT
Rocky
Elsbree wrote:
>
> 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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