Re: Germination box

Glenn:
       All I'am saying Glenn is maybe because we are doing what we do, we
may be throwing out some of the best(strongest) seed because we have found
way's to overcome their weakness and therefore are losing out on the strongest
which if we done the same things, would really proudce bigger fruit with less
trouble.
       Just a thought, not a argument.



At 09:07 PM 2/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Bill....I'm no philosopher...probably spelled it wrong too....but who said
>anything about the best surviving? We cater to every whim of these plants we
>can figure out...these giants are the queen ants of our
>backyards---constantly preened by worker ants ..constantly fed by worker
>ants...constantly .well...you know...by worker breeding male ants......she
>cannot go out and  catch dinner or build a nest....she's been catered to for
>eons and does what she does.We are picking the biggest/heaviest pumpkins and
>breeding them.Then choosing the biggest heaviest offspring from them and
>breeding them.We are more than likely losing any disease resistance,drought
>resistance,limiting variability along the way.we are making big pumpkins
>...thats it.We are creating the seed stock that produces the biggest/heaviest
>fruit under catered conditions,not making the strongest plants.
>  I am heavy,short,wear glasses,and certainly not the brightest dork in these
>parts...but I survive because of optometrists,high blood pressure medicine,a
>society that allows for people 5'-7 3/4",and the fact that i don't have to go
>out and kill a wild cow everyother day.(hey..I'm from NY..all our cows are
>wild).I survive because the environment i live in allows for it. Now living
>on PEI you may get away with leaving your plants untended a week or two...but
>many others would lose everything if left alone. We are not breeding the best
>plants.We are breeding the biggest fruit producers under optimum conditions.
>  Sorry...I may have digressed a bit there.We may be ignoring the best seed
>to handle the real world(I'd bet on it) ,but we're looking for the
>biggest,not the best...and it depends on your definition of "best"....g
>
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Thanks,
Bill Van Iderstine
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