RE: What to plant --------------

The way I understand it, each segment of a female flower can be
pollinated by a different male. Each segment results in a separate seed
sack inside the pumpkin. This could explain wildly different results
from seed from the same pumpkin. 

For this reason,  I really have to wonder just how accurate the lineage
charts I am seeing really are. If a grower hand pollinates and then
leaves the female flower open, who is to say that the pollination 'took'
and that Mother Nature's bees did come along and do the job with pollen
from who-knows-what male flower? It seems that only flowers that remain
covered at all times in the absence of the grower could be reliable in
their offspring. Is this a common practice amongst those that hand
pollinate?

Always thinking (don't ask about what),

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	brocfarm@pacific.net [SMTP:brocfarm@pacific.net]
> Sent:	Tuesday, January 13, 1998 11:06 AM
> To:	pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject:	What to plant --------------
> 
> To go back to the well or plant the cutting edge??.......This is one
> of the
> most puzzling questions?  It is thought that you should plant "proven
> "
> seed but a lot of top growers don't make this a rule and don't seem to
> go
> back to the well ..  They plant the cutting edge of the new
> Giants.....what
> appears to me to be a pattern, is seed from these giants have 1-4
> seeds
> that are superior and the rest just prove to be average.........This
> holds
> true for alot of large fruit in the AG past.....So if this is  the
> case say
> for the 1006 which produced Chris' monster and a few other pumpkins
> over
> 700 can one expect only average pumpkins from the remaining 1006
> seeds..??(who knows).......then you have those that grew the very
> large
> pumpkins that didn't make it to the  weigh offs that were from going
> back
> to the " WELL" pumpkins under 700.......apparently there were three
> pumpkins that were unofficial weights that were in the 1000lb.
> range.......Any other Theories thoughts,
> questions,???????.........brock..in seed limbo  Ah!!
> 
> 
> 
> 
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