Re: What to plant --------------
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- Subject: Re: What to plant --------------
- From: "* J* N* <c*@execpc.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:07:50 -0600
It would be a good idea to check the archieves if you are wondering about
different segements and pollination. I know we had a lengthy and somewhat
heated discussion on the topic a while ago. Some really good info came
out as a result.
Rick
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> From: Mike Nepereny <MikeN@optiosoftware.com>
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: RE: What to plant --------------
> Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 2:44 PM
>
> 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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