Re: Big Zac Seeds
Bob.....this is getting serious! Keep me in mind. If you hit the
impossible to find key on Big Zac. If four or five seeds would ease your
desire to grow I could split with a few. I can only grow two plants. I do
have ten or so seed held over from last year.
Dwaine Gipe docgipe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Claudia Temmermand" <ctemmerm@yahoo.com>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: Big Zac Seeds
> Just to let everyone know Big Zac tomato is sold out at Reimer seeds I
just
> tried to buy some.
> Bob
>
>
> On 2/17/05 11:55 AM, "beamup" <beamup@charter.net> wrote:
>
> > I just finished ordering some Big Zac tomato seeds from Reimer seeds.
The
> > website said that they had become available on 2/15/05. The price and
> > shipping are reasonable. However, I don't know if it is like getting
AG's
> > from the mail order places---genetics? It sounds like it is worth a
try.
> >
> > Charles Leonard
> > Talbott, TN
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ned Sandercock
> > To: pumpkins@hort.net
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 1:36 PM
> > Subject: Re: Big Zac Seeds
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the reply Marv. I think I should have a couple of packs
left.
> > Let me know if you can't find any seeds I could send a few your way.
Last
> > year I had 5 plants going. I don't really know what I am doing
pruning
> > wise
> > but I gave it a shot. I have them at the edge of my pumpkin patch so
it is
> > fun to watch them and easy to feed them. I had one weighing 2 and a
half
> > pounds that split on me and rotted prior to going to Altoona. I also
had
> > another plant that had toppled over and I thought I had picked all of
the
> > fruit off of it. When I had my pumpkin picking crew over to get our
> > pumpkin with all of the goings on I forgot to give the tomato plants a
> > final
> > look over. While we were at the weighoff my mom noticed that I had
missed
> > a big beautiful tomato on the fallen over plant which was hiding near
the
> > bottom. She said it was perfectly shaped and ripe and huge. She
decided
> > to weigh it by getting on her digital bathroom scale and weighing
herself
> > and then weighing herself holding the tomato. There was a "4" pound
> > difference. I don't know what the actual weight was but I was
disappointed
> > that I did not find it myself in time to take to Altoona :)
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Ned
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Lubadub@aol.com>
> > To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:39 AM
> > Subject: Big Zac Seeds
> >
> >
> >> Ned:
> >> Your Big Zac seeds should be okay. The problem was farther back than
two
> >> years ago. The hybrid seeds then were not correctly made and the plants
> > ended up
> >> not being quite what was expected. However, there is a problem again
this
> >> year. Two of the usual sources have already run out of seeds, Totally
> > Tomatoes
> >> and Reimer Seeds. Totally Tomatoes must not have made enough. They
have
> > an
> >> exclusive on hybridizing the seeds, They then sell seeds to other seed
> >> companies in bulk and to the public. If you have any seeds at all you
may
> > be among
> >> the lucky. Some growers will be left out in the dark this year. We may
> > end
> > up
> >> with Big Zac seeds being offered guess where? On E-bay?? When
opportunity
> >> knocks there will always be someone somewhere waiting to open the door.
> >> Marv in Altoona, PA
> >>
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