Re: Lobes, genetics, and seed variability
Are you married Glen?
In my house if I compared my wife to anything relating to a GIANT pumpkin I
would be sleeping in the garden.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Needham" <sven@magma.ca>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: Lobes, genetics, and seed variability
> There seems to be a little bit of confusion on this topic.
> While not quite the same - certain aspects could be considered similar
with
> humans.
> Think of a pumpkin plant as a women - think of the female bloom as also
part
> of that women - think of the male bloom as . . .. .well you know. The male
> bloom does his thing - but the results are not seen immediately on the
> female - until the baby or seeds are born and in this case the resulting
> seeds are grown. When a human becomes pregnant (aside from gaining a
little
> weight) they do not start to resemble the impregnating father do they - so
> why would the pumpkin show any of the characteristics of the father?
> Not a real good analogy - someone else care to take a stab at this??
>
> Glenn
>
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