Re: What to plant --------------
I AGREE; THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT HOW BIG A BREED WILL GET; PLANT IT!
Alan Eaton wrote:
> At 09:58 14/01/98 -0300, you wrote:
> >>This is a ''hot topic'' for me. My feelings are that any Atlantic Giant seed
> >>can produce a very large pumpkin. I think what is happening now is too many
> >>seeds are being collected and not planted. Everybody is waiting for someone
> >>else to take a chance and plant them.Let's look at the 1006, yes it did
> >>produce a few big ones this year, but how many of these seeds were planted to
> >>get that many? I would be willing to bet a few hundred were planted, when you
> >>now look at how many were planted and what it produced the average is not very
> >>good. The only real proven seed on a grand scale over the past few years in my
> >>opinion is the 567.5. Another trend, I see developing is, one year after
> >>someone pops a big one, the next season that seed will get planted heavily and
> >>then it disappears never to be planted again. What ever happen to the 923, 887
> >>or the 914? at one time these were good seed stocks. I just think we all get
> >>bored with these seed '' studs'' and move on to the next batch of hopefuls.
> >>
> >>Ron Wallace
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> >I agree totally Ron but the pattern I see is just a few seeds pop as big or
> >bigger than the parents......Heres the question I am trying to answer take
> >the 1006 would you plant the 1006 or go back to the parents the 697......OR
> >another example would you plant the 977 or go back to the parent 1006. If
> >my hunch is true than the 1006 is maybe over.....so know the 977 offers
> >better odds with 4 to 5seeds able to hit big ones out of 400 seeds.........
> >I wish I had a Mombert567.5.........the part thats killing me is that all
> >seed has great potential til you plant it.......brock
> >
> >
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> Brock-now and then I see something that really catches my eye and you
> produced a line above that is just super.
>
> It is:"All seed has great potential,until you grow it"
>
> I can add a couple:
>
> "Every seed in an AG is different"
>
> "Color has no weight so the prettiest color is the color of the heaviest at
> the weigh-off"
>
> "Luck is important,but the harder I work the more luck I have."-by a USA
> President
>
> "More big AG's come from "proven growers"than from "proven seed".
>
> Anyone care to add to the list?????????????--------------------------Al E.
>
> Anyone care to start a collection of AG "truisms"?Ever email AG grower could
> come up with one personal observation,surely.
>
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