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

Polly: At this time, my wife is in bed cracking & eating pumpkin seed's, she cleaned my hoard of
my own grown pumpkin seeds 372 to 625 lbs leaving me only 25 of each. She roasted close to 2500
seeds. Any one want some seed ? (Not the roasted ones.) To get them you will have to grow them.
The parentage can all be found on the AGGC site. Slightly depressed  Bill          Looking for big one in 2001



At 05:04 PM 12/12/00 , you wrote:
>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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Thanks,
Bill Van Iderstine
P.E.I. Record Holder @ 862 lbs.
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