RE: Oregon Update Replied/3 unproven

I love this question.  I don't know how proven or unproven these seeds are.
They
may have been planted and not poduced anything to make it to weighoffs, or I
am
just not aware of what they have produced.  (Fairly good chance of that.)
But here
are three I would grow in a heartbeat if I had space and time for three more
plants.

#1 812 LaRue 97  I know this one has produced a few in the same size range,
    it probably hasn't been planted enough to realize it's potential though.
The reason
    I'm not growing it this year is I am growing a sib seed of one of it's
parents.
#2  871 Richart 97  This produced a nice one for Jake VanKooten a couple
years
     ago.  Probably not planted enough to realize the potential.
#3 (tie)725 Richart 96  I've heard good things about this seed but the
offspring hadn't
    made it to a weighoff.  Again probably not widely planted.
    460 Mombert 97  It's mother was a sib seed of the famous 567.5 with the
697 Ciliberto
    as the pollen parent.  Could it be another 567.5?  I don't know if this
one has ever
    been planted.

There are a couple others that I have that I could mention as well.  One of
the things I am
trying to do this year though is use seeds with very different backgrounds,
ones that are have
large fruit in their backgrounds but aren't too closely related.  I haven't
completely ruled out 
planting that 871 this year though.  I'm still considering that with the
909.5 Lloyd 96.  I have 
other seeds that would be well worth planting this year, but I want to grow
one of my own, and
one that I will be growing is the 563 Geerts 95.  I only have room for
three.  I have other worthy
seeds that will wait till next season,  a freind lobbying me to plant an 865
Mettler,  the 815 
Checkon, 937 Mombert and 850.5 Hester are all tempting me as well.  
Does anyone out there want to talk me out of or into one of these choices?
The 563 Geerts
and one of my own seeds are a lock.  The others, well.........  If I only
was retired and had a
few acres of bottomland.

Chris Michalec
Covington, WA
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	LIpumpkin@aol.com [SMTP:LIpumpkin@aol.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 20, 2000 5:35 PM
> To:	pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject:	Re: Oregon Update Replied
> 
>  I find Oregon Updates and similar updates very informative...it gets us 
> newer growers in sinc with the selections (and hopefully the thought 
> processes that go along with the seed selections) of the more experienced
> and 
> more successful growers.Mike's ramblings (I say that fondly) and other's 
> comments  on Mike's ramblings  spark great thought and dialogue. To other
> big 
> guys(and girls) out there.......what are you growing next year? What looks
> 
> good and why?
>  Here's a good question.....If you had space /time/money for three
> unproven 
> seeds,seeds that you think about growing but never seem to make the cut in
> 
> the end, which ones would they be?.....................................G
> 
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