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

>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.
>
	Along these lines, what about the Shymanski 825 '96? I noticed a
Stelts 801 and a Hebb 785 in Al Eaton's pumpkin family trees. How many
seeds were planted? Richard Noffke also grew some 500+ pumpkins with seeds
from the 825 and was kind enough to trade with me. I also noticed the 825
was produced with a seed from the Mombert 567.


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