Re: All About Eve
- To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: All About Eve
- From: "* C* <m*@neo.lrun.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 10:16:16 -0500
Dear Stewart:
I don't have any information on the origins of Big Max. However, its
discription suggests it might be a distant cousin of Mammoth Pumpkin. The
information I have on Big Max says it is one of the most successful of all
commerical varieties of pumpkin grown, being offered by 71 seed companies
here in the US alone.
Unlike Atlantic Giant (AG,) Big Max is geneticly stable, producing a fruit
that is relatively uniform in color, shape, flesh, size, etc. At the rate
growers are mixing and crossing AGs with other varieties of squash and
different AGs, producing wide differences in color, shape, size, etc. the
variety may never stablize. In all probablity the variety which was known
as Atlantic Giant in the 1980s will probably become extinct in a decade or
so to be replaced with something else, something much bigger and uglier,
yet still not a geneticly stable, uniformily predictable fruit.
Michael in Akron
mcohill@neo.lrun.com
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