Re: Oregon Update Replied/3 unproven
To Chris and the list;I just joined the list a couple of days ago,and I am
a secound year person and the first year didn't count. I have a question I'm
hoping you nice peoples can answer .I live in northern Kansas.Last year(99)
I had super soil,and bought some seed out of a place that said 600# to
700#.I bought several and shared them with two other friends(we previously
just planted the 'Atalantic Giant seeds out of Gourneys)I figured if i
wanted bigger I had to buy genetics.What we 3 guys got was a huge plant and
pumpkins that just sort of melted in the summer heat before they weighed
much over 20#.I read the list of pumpkins weighed this year and I asume I
live to far south to grow these giants.I just wanted one around 4 to 500#
for my two little girls.No fairs or weigh offs just growing a giant
together.Iv'e grown em to 200# and figure that is what the seed will do that
was purchased. Ifmy short comings were not due to climate I would be
interested in some good seed and a true chance to make great big smiles on
my 4 and 6 year old girls.Sincerely Kris Hoard,P.S. My thumbs are both very
green.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michalec, Chris" <cmicha@chmc.org>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 2:11 PM
Subject: 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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