Re: Green Genes
Sorry to alarm you all. I am not writing about getting rid of all of
the green genes. I am not a pumpkin Nazi. But to make some true breeding
lines for orange pumpkin would be a good idea. Then one could know without
doubt which seeds he could use to get a orange pumpkin
>From: LIpumpkin@aol.com
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: Green Genes
>Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:33:10 EST
>
>In a message dated 12/19/2000 12:21:56 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>jordangregory@hotmail.com writes:
>
>
> > . If we want to get rid of the green gene all one has to do is no
>longer
> > use green gened seeds and/or stop using seeds that we know carry the
>gene
> > in
> > secret. Mr Eaton knows that the seeds that produced his green monster
>both
> > are carriers and no longer using those parents will help to eliminate
>the
> > green gene from giant pumpkin growing.
> >
> > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Geez....a bit harsh no?...........and it cannot be that simple. There's
>green. There's grey/blue. There's salmon.There's orange.There's red-orange.
>There's yellow.There's an almost black green.Theres the white ones. There's
>the creamy ones. The mottled ones,the faintly striped ones,the half and
>half
>ones, etc........its not just green or orange...there's got to be more to
>it...the color thing is very interesting but not anywhere's as simple as
>this...........................................(.ps...do you have any idea
>what you would be eliminating Mr Gregory,if you eliminated all
>"heterozygous
>green genes from the pool?).......................................Glenn
>A.,a
>squasher by CHOICE !
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