Re: Needham seed requests - and a really good question!
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- Subject: Re: Needham seed requests - and a really good question!
- From: C* W*
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:01:19 -0700
- List-Archive: <http://www.mallorn.com/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
Maybe they just want to roast them...;-)
On another thought, my multivitamin lists
pumpkin seed as one of the ingredients.
Cliff in Idaho
>From: LIpumpkin@aol.com
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: Needham seed requests - and a really good question!
>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:42:04 EST
>
>In a message dated 12/11/2000 7:03:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>sven@magma.ca
>writes:
>
>
> > On a different slant - -
> >
> > I see Stokes Seeds in Ontario sells Atlantic Giant seeds....
> > Seems you can buy a pound for 112.45 Cdn.
> > Now if you were to buy 5 pounds or more you can get them for 99.60 Cdn.
> > Now if you really want to save a few bucks you can order 25 pounds and
>get
> > them for 94.25 Cdn. per pound.
> >
> > This really confuses the h**l outa me.
> > An average AG seed - you would get 1000 - 1400 seeds per pound.
> > Now if you wanted to take advantage of that 25 pound price you would
> > recieve about 30000 seeds.
> > Now lets say you were to get 90% germination rate (quite poor - should
> > easily get 95) you could start 27000 plants with your 25 pounds seed.
>Now
> > lets say you allow 1000 ft square per plant that would be 43 plants per
> > acre. Your 25 pounds of seed would plant about 628 acres!!
> >
> > Does anyone know of anyone growing this kind of acreage of Atlantic
> > Giants:)??
> > Not me!!
> >
> > Glenn
> > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Glenn N.......you obviously have WAY TOO MUCH TIME on your hands. Lets
>see....they are probably apealing to the people who would buy their seeds
>this year for the future. A seed will last about 10 years with ,say....10%
>loss of germination per year.So,if the guy who bought all those seeds
>wanted
>to maintain the same amount of plants each year he would grow (1X)seeds in
>the first year at 100% germination, something like (1.1X) in the second
>year,1.2X the third etc down to 1.8x seeds the 10th year. This means
>approximately 30000/14.5 (x) or roughly 2000 plants per year for each of
>the
>ten years. You can figure 4 seedlings per hill culled to one and given
>500square feet per plant would bring the total down to a measly
>258,620.68sq
>ft (about the size of Paul McIntyre's patch..hee-hee) divided by 42,000sq
>ft
>per acre and you have a measly 6 acres of giant pumpkins.Furthermore,....my
>friend has six acres and is only growing ONE pumpkin plant and since MORE
>THAN 50% of these giants don't make it to weighoff,well the answer is
>simple....you need to get TWICE the 30,000 seeds just to get ONE to
>weighoff
>!..............g
>
>
>
>
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