RE: 2000# Pumpkin Paradox

you mean pumpzilla....?

Mark Smith

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mills, Joe [SMTP:MillsJ@doaks.org]
> Sent:	Tuesday, January 20, 1998 12:23 PM
> To:	'pumpkins@mallorn.com'
> Subject:	RE: 2000# Pumpkin Paradox
> 
> 
> AGodzilla!
> 
> 
> >---------
> >From: 	Ernest Quintiliani[SMTP:click@ma.ultranet.com]
> >Sent: 	Tuesday, January 20, 1998 4:54 PM
> >To: 	pumpkins@mallorn.com
> >Subject: 	Re: 2000# Pumpkin Paradox
> >
> >Dearest Pumpkineers,
> >
> >    Why do I get the feeling that eventually one of you is going to
> >genetically engineer a pumpkin that will somehow threaten the very
> existance
> >of mankind?  I have seen armageddon, and it is orange.  And pretty
> damn big.
> >(With great big ugly fangs...)
> >
> >
> >Ernest
> >
> >Beth Rado wrote:
> >
> >> >>...Even some silly explanation based on something you observed
> could
> >> be a key to the answer of the 2000# pumpkin pair-a-ducks!
> >> > >Rick >>
> >>
> >> > There are two phases to a pumpkins development....cell division
> and
> >> cell enlargement. At the beginning... cells begin dividing,....
> Large
> >> fruited varieties probably have a longer period of cell
> division.... The
> >> more cells, the larger the ultimate pumpkin after the enlargement
> phase.
> >> So the ultimate size of your pumpkin may be cast in stone at a
> >> relatively early stage.   Is the Atlantic Giant converting to cell
> >> expansion when it is the size of a basketball, beach ball or 80
> inches
> >> in circumference? I don't know yet. ....
> >> >                                        pumkinguy@aol.com
> >>
> >>      I don't know about the multiple fruits discussion where this
> >> started, but Wayne's knowledge here strikes me as important for
> growing
> >> the largest possible pumpkin from a given seed....   It corresponds
> to
> >> humans:  a high-protein diet during pregnancy, especially in the
> last
> >> month, actually produces more fetal brain cells than a low-protein
> diet.
> >> Then toddlers & small children need lots of high-fat foods, which
> >> encourage growth of more, and more complex, dendrites.   But around
> age
> >> 5, development of brain cells/dendrites levels off.  No matter how
> much
> >> protein or fat they get later, it won't affect the brain cells the
> same
> >> way.  You've just got that one window of opportunity.
> >>        So.     What do we know about growth and nutrients for
> pumpkins
> >> in that early stage?   We hand pollinate to get total pollination,
> which
> >> produces the most PGR hormone.  Don Langevin talks about stressing
> >> phosporous for seedlings & pre-fruit plants and stressing potassium
> from
> >> late July on.  He just says use a balanced fertilizer in between.
> But
> >> I bet some of you veterans out there have growth records and the
> >> experience to have ideas about specific nutrients that  might
> especially
> >> enhance that cell-division stage, and thereby enhance the maximum
> >> potential of a given fruit.
> >>       Another issue is how to figure out exactly when the
> cell-division
> >> process is occurring.  What does this take - sacrificing a few
> pumpkins
> >> and a plant physiologist?        Rick, this is your kind of thing,
> isn't
> >> it?
> >>      Any thoughts or speculation, folks?
> >>
> >> Beth
> >>
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