Re: size, temp & wilting

In a message dated 1/28/2001 10:43:29 AM Pacific Standard Time,
brocfarm@pacific.net writes:


.  Say you and I both bought lottery
tickets you spent a dollar, I spent 10,000..............when you win you
win more than win I win.

 it only takes one pumpkin to make a sucessful season .


No Mike...we both win the same. I just overcame more odds than you.You
invested more than me. You may have invested more time than me,more money
than me,and because of this you may feel that you've earned it more than me.
Thats not the point-----same grower..same prepared plots,same weather,same
everything,...the one with three plants has an advantage over the one with
one plant.
 We all work to reduce the odds against us in a competition (whether its for
personal bests or prize money) but to deny the guy with 10 plants has an
advantage over someone with less is ludicris.
 The culling proceedures start at germination and continue to the day you
chose which fruit to take. A grower with 1-2 plants has most of his choices
made for him.The guy with 10 plants needs to do little more than the guy with
two until fruit set..he can abandon plants that don't perform early
on--before investing big time into them. A backyard guy with one plant (me
for instance) "has to dance with the one he brung " the whole season or pack
it in.  If you get a barren plant you just pull it and go with one of the
others.......I would be done. I could chose a great green vining plant over a
lesser growth performer to find out it wont set fruit two weeks later...
 I'm not whining or complaining...or angry or ,well,yes-I am
jealous......its just that the growers with 10 plants refuse to admit they
have an advantage............."its all luck"....well I say  POPPYCOCK
!..................................G
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