Re: 2000# Pumpkin Paradox

Bret
Amazing 3000 lbs sounds like a good seed.
Stewart ACT Aust
sdeans@pcug.org.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Orion 910 <Orion910@aol.com>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Monday, 19 January 1998 16:45
Subject: Re: 2000# Pumpkin Paradox


>Hi all,
>I thought I might get in on this one too.  This last year (1997) I had a
plant
>which only held one pumpkin.  I pollinated by hand, bees, and both, but
could
>not get another pumpkin on the plant.  There was pleanty of space for the
>plant to grow, but evey young pumpkin aborted after the first one was set.
I
>was unable to give it the attention it needed, for it was at my now ex-
>fiance's place.  I thought it very weird to have one nice fruit, and
nothing
>else.  The mother seed to that plant was my 627.5, which has never had any
>problem with fruit set before, in fact it is a fertile buzzard.  In this
case,
>the plant did put all its energy into one fruit.
>
>On the other side of the token, in 1995 (my second year) I didn't know the
>importance of pruning back vines, and let my plants just grow at their own
>free will.  I pinched off excess fruit until September, but then let the
plant
>set anything it wanted.  It was a Nelson 910 plant, and was 112 X 95 feet
when
>I removed it from the patch.  What came off that plant was my #627.5, #558,
>#510, #476, #408 and three others over 300 pounds.  It doesnt take a
genious
>to addup that over 3000 pounds of fruit came off that one plant.  Now if
one
>could combine the one fruit only plant with that 3000 pounds of pumpkin
>production, well, we should be talking about a 3000 pound paradox.  Could a
>Nelson 910 X Hester 451 be in in the near future???
>
>Take care,
>Brett  The Pumpkinguru
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