RE: Needham seed requests - and a really good question!

Be Prepared for anything when using the R' word on a pumpkin newsletter!!
It's a bad word, hurts my ears..even tears...makes us Nuts!!

LOL

Polly-Totoland
Kansas

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> From: 	Cliff Warren[SMTP:cliffrwarren@hotmail.com]
> Reply To: 	pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Sent: 	Tuesday, December 12, 2000 1:01 PM
> To: 	pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: 	Re: Needham seed requests - and a really good question!
> 
> 
> 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
> >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  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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