Re: Return to Genetic ramblings

Something else that I have noticed in the last few years experience with
about 80 plants is that if you leave a fruit on the vine (long past weighoff
time) and closer to Halloween allot of them will get green patches.

Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: Cliff Warren <cliffrwarren@hotmail.com>
To: pumpkins@hort.net <pumpkins@hort.net>
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Return to Genetic ramblings


>Yeah, I know that they were splitting hairs as far
>as a determination is concerned, that's
>why I called them both pale. But in the pictures I've
>seen, I was surprized in the amount of difference in
>color among two fruit on the same plant. All the plants
>that I've grown, all the fruits on a plant are nearly
>identical in color.
>
>There could be some other error, a picture could be
>wrongly attributed, or in the digital world "white
>balance" in photography is really a problem... but
>what I saw was kind of puzzling in the difference in
>color. Maybe someone who was at Canby in 2001 could
>comment.
>
>Cliff
>
>
>
>
>
>>From: LIpumpkin@aol.com
>>Reply-To: pumpkins@hort.net
>>To: pumpkins@hort.net
>>Subject: Re: Return to Genetic ramblings
>>Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:29:03 EST
>>
>>In a message dated 2/19/2003 10:07:29 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>>cliffrwarren@hotmail.com writes:
>>
>>
>> > Then on the other hand, some things are unexplained to
>> > me, such as Kirk Mombert's 723 plant in 2001. He had a
>> > tremendous squash and pumpkin on the same plant. True
>> > that both were pale, but when they're growing on the
>> > same plant, they should have the same genetics, right?
>> > That is something that our simplified model does not
>> > explain.
>> >
>> > The 723 Bobier seems to be one of those seed stocks where
>> > some seeds fall on one side and some on the other.
>> >
>> >
>>  First off...lets get the facts straight....the Mombert "squash" was not
a
>>full green/blue from day 30 squash but a  late season greener from what I
>>understand. Secondly, due to the wishy-washy determinations of what we
call
>>squash and pumpkin you cannot go by the common terminaology or
>>classification
>>as found in contest records or AGGC. The only difference between the first
>>fruit on the MOmbert plant and the second fruit was the % of
>>green...................G
>>
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