Re: What to plant --------------

At 01:25 14/01/98 EST, you wrote:
>One more thought on seed selection. If everyone agrees that most
>proven/successful growers, will not plant a first year seed, then who is
>planting these seeds? First year growers? if so we all can remember our first
>few seasons growing AG's. Do you think at that stage of our pumpkin growing
>ability, we were able to get the full potential out of those seeds?
>
>Ron Wallace
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Hello Ron

On the above point I can add an interesting fact.
 
 Having looked at the mothers of the 700+ 1997 official AG pumpkins---I
found that 60% of the mothers were of 1996 vintage.

Considering all the seeds available from earlier years,I found this a bit
surprising.So then I went back to the 96 crop and found that 58% were grow
from 95 fruit.

So I think the pattern is there,ie.60% of the best each year are from the
"unproven seed" of the previous year. I would expect this figure to increase
to increase to 75% once the "567.5 mombert 92" is all gone.

                              Best Regards---------Al Eaton

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