Re: heavy to the charts
Mike, Good topic. Being in one of hottest growing environments I have
seen weights all over the place. What I have observed is orange pumpkins
tend to weigh light and cream pumpkins weigh heavy. Now there is the
occasional orange pumpkin that weighs heavy but rarely. Now in the bay
area where it is cooler the orange pumpkins weigh to the charts or a little
heavy. Almost always the cream colored pumpkins weigh to the carts or a
several percentage points above the charts. I would have to guess but from
a CA perspective that weight is genetic. Several years ago I had a bright
orange pumpkin that weighed 70 lbs. under the chart the other pumpkin on
that same plant was cream colored and was 70 lbs. over the chart explain
that one?
My thought is cream colored pumpkins tend to have thicker walls?
Jon
At 05:28 PM 1/29/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Whats the general feeling out there.................is heavy to the charts
>strictly limited to genetics or is it manipulated in the soil..........or
>both..................any hunches??
>
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