Re: What to plant --------------
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: What to plant --------------
- From: P* <P*@aol.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 23:25:21 EST
Al Eaton has a good point. I have always been a proponent of planting proven
seeds, but there is a difference between proven performers. The 567 is the
most successful proven performer, maybe of all time. If the 1006 had 3 good
offspring, it has been proven to produce, but 3 good ones out of 300 tries is
not a good percentage. Lady luck is needed with any of these. There are some
pumpkins out there who have never produced a good offspring. Thereare also
pumpkins out there that have been prone to spliting. If you find a seed that
was only tried by 4 people and one good pumpkin came of it.....it might be the
next mombert. I certainly wouldn't be thrilled about trying a 1006, if it has
a 1% success rate. The next question would be, what constitutes a proven
performer.? 5%, 10% or a 20% success rate. I wonder what the success rate of
the 567 was? What is considered a success? 600 plus pounds? I have to tell
you, my biggest was a 729.4 from the Mombert and now that they are basically
gone there is nothing out there to replace it, or , maybe I should say the
next Mombert hasn't been discovered yet. Maybe the thing to look for is a seed
with a few sucesses that hasn't been tried much yet.......a possible new
sucessor to the Mombert throne.
pumkinguy@aol.com
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