RE: THE BAD SEED
Brett stated in his last post that he has grown several of these. I don't
know of anyone else who has planted that seed. Perhaps he can fill us all
in. I just want to get more information so I can make better choices this
spring. We all go to the weighoffs and see the ones that make it and get
the chance to learn about them. We don't often get information about the
ones that don't make it other than the overheard comments like, "No Bill
isn't here today, I heard he had one over 900 that went down 2 weeks ago."
Who is Bill? And what was he growing? The value of this list is that it
brings many of us from diverse areas together year round so we can address
these issues. I love to visit with my fellow growers at the weighoffs, but
we don't get together often enough to go into much detail on these issues.
I suspect these problems aren't limited to individual plants, but are common
to certain pumpkins or genetic lines. Maybe it is a metabolism issue. Lets
find out.
Chris Michalec
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> From: rado1000@hotmail.com [SMTP:rado1000@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 5:10 PM
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: THE BAD SEED
>
> >...my best and most agressive plant ever, but every pumpkin but one
> >split
> >on it. I had stem splits, blossom splits, bottom splits.
>
> Chris, I am beginning to suspect that this is a metabolism issue worth
> looking at... the "early vigor" that gets everybody so revved up early in
> the season may be an undesirable trait.
>
> I remember lots of people talking about Brett Hester's 627.5. Around the
> end of July we heard lots of screaming and shouting about the developing
> world records, but then the splits started. If my memory serves me
> correctly. I would be interested in comments from folks who have grown
> that
> seed - am I remembering correctly? Were there any big ones from that seed
>
> at weighoff? Also how did the whole plant look in, say, early September?
>
> This is one of the questions I'm addressing in the questionnaires I'm
> sending out. Unfortunately, the bulk of that work will be by snail mail,
> so
> it will be a while before I have much data back.
>
> Beth
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