Re: Oregon Update Replied/3 unproven

  I have had the same problem here is California with the heat.  It is
important when pollinating in the heat, which you must do by hand early in
the morning, so keep the enviroment cool for a few days.  We do this by
putting ice all around the blossom.  One can take a tomatoe cage and put foam
around it so it is like a cooler.  than place ice inside and it should keep
the female cool so that it can "take".  It is also a good idea to keep it
shaded and keep styrofoam underneath.  And if you still want to increase your
chances of a big one, start your growing season early!!!!!!!!!!

--- Kris Hoard <efishunt@ncknet.com> wrote:
> 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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