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I think George Lloyd summed up my season very well and Chris
Dueck's. To grow a pumpkin over 900 pounds takes good seed, good soil prep, and
good gardening practices along with a lot of hard work. To have them stay
together takes a lot of good luck or in my case bad luck. I only have room for
two plants and my parents three and Chris has room for one. I think it takes
good soil and seed, Chris is a first year grower and look what he accomplished
1056.5uow with a little help from me, but I am a second year grower so it can be
done. Gary Burke had only two plants, all it takes is the right seed and soil.
The rest is hard work and a lot of luck.
andrew
----- Original Message -----
From:
L*@aol.com
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 3:59
PM
Subject: Re: size, temp &
wilting
In a message dated
1/28/2001 10:43:29 AM Pacific Standard Time,
b*@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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