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Well said Bob, I agree completely.
The AGGC site is the best site available for
pumpkin stats.
Bob Attaway
----- Original Message -----
From:
r*@earthlink.net
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:01
AM
Subject: Re: So how many growers already
knew all this in the first place?
And that's the name of the game .... Trying to figure out what
your going to get.
Special thanks to Mike Nepereny and Rock Rivard for
supplying all of us with such an outstanding resource.
The more
information we can provide to them for the AGGC site, the more we can all
learn.
Keep track of those plants during growing season, Fill the forms
out in fall and send them to the AGGC site.
The more ya give, the more ya
receive.
Bob T.
clarion wrote:
I would like to know how many growers pay
attention to what a male pollinator plant produced [weight wise] when
determining what seeds to grow?Everyone looks at the weight of the pumpkin... see what the mother
seed is... and after noticing just what male pumpkin was used, most think
that they can figure out what is a good genetic seed. I used to do this,
until brushing up on my genetic research. Now I have realized there is one
more detail to research.What
characteristics did the plant that was used to be a pollinator exhibit? Did
it grow as well or better than the female it was crossed with or was it a
"runt"? Also, what did the male plant grow for fruit size? Perhaps the male
plant had a less fortunate chromosome map as most of its siblings, [since no
Atlantic Giant can breed similar chromosome mapped seeds, as it has been so
outbreed forever and ever].Say
that a "runt" seed of a 801 Stelts was planted, grown, used as a pollinate,
and then discovered by fall that it just wasn't like most of the other seeds
growers had. This has happened with many "proven" seed strains. Say for
example that it was used to pollinate the world record Stelts pumpkin.
Chances are high that the seeds grown the next year are not going to grow
anything near what the grower envisioned! Go to the AGGC web site and do
some research if you have not thought about why certain seed strains just do
not produce what they look like they would on paper. There are several
examples if you do a little homework.So how many growers already knew all this in the first place? I have
lost several great growing years and wasted a lot of time not actually ever
thinking twice about it. I guess, as the saying goes..." you can never learn
too much."Marc
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