Re: bark or not.
Tracy,
I'm no guru on genetics but from what I understand the seeds from the
resulting pumpkin of such a cross will have genes from both the superior
and inferior one. Each seed will have a different mixture of both genes
in them and it's a matter of chance of which gene will be dominant or
recessive.
For example:
Pumkin superior is large and dark orange. Pumpkin inferior is yellow
and small.
Your seeds from the resulting pumpkin could be
large and orange
large and yellow
small and orange or
small and yellow.
Please correct me anyone if I'm wrong here. I'm also trying to learn.
Does anyone know if the female or male has dominance in the cross?
(This would be good to know to figure out choices such as "should I
plant the
846 Calai x 801.5 Stelts or vice versa...")
When I chose my own seeds to plant I look at how many pumpkins were produced
over 700 lbs. from it and rank the seeds that way. I use 400 seeds per
pumpkin as
average and calculate my chances of growing one over 700 that way.
If a pumpkin produced 9 pumpkins over 700 then I figure
9 divided into 400 equals a 2.25% chance to also grow one that large.
In reality all the 400 seeds were probably not planted and some seeds were
not given the best treatment and not all of the data was
submitted but it gives a starting point for me to evaluate the seeds.
Michel White
saylor683@cox.net wrote:
>I agree with Dave. If these are the THICK bark chips, they may take several years to break down, and will be tying up nitrogen in the mean time. I'd get them out.
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>Bryan Saylor
>Herndon, VA
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>>From: Dave <belcherdv@earthlink.net>
>>Date: 2003/01/12 Sun PM 09:35:41 EST
>>To: pumpkins@hort.net
>>Subject: Re: bark or not.
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>>I read that bark mulch robs the ground of nitrogen. I would remove it. The
>>same holds true for wood chips.
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>>Dave
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>>tracy.fisher@attbi.com wrote:
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>>> I was wondering, this is my first year attempting to grow a bigg'n. I have an
>>>old play ground in my back yard that has had bark in it for 10+ years. Its
>>>about 30 by 24. Question was do you think I should remove all of the wood
>>>chips in the area or till them under and add compost and good soil? Any advice
>>>on this would be appreciated...
>>>
>>>Second is I've been reading about seed genetics. Does pollinating a higher
>>>genetic seed with a lower genetic producing seed take away from the Higher
>>>seeds genetics?
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