Re: What ever happened to those clones?

I am sorry to hear that I am not the only one here in Colorado suffering from the heat and dryness, but I will say that you have got a lot more rain then I have here on the High Plains in between Colorado Springs, Denver and Limon at 7000 feet, usually the storms in the Springs will come my way but this year they keep passing me by. I think in the last 2 months we have had 5 small rain showers :-( . I have been babying my plants and they were planted in the middle of May and it has been so hot that they have barely reached 4 feet, by this time of the year my patch is usually looking fantastic! Thank goodness the heat wave has broken even if it is just for a little while :-) This has been the worst year that I have had in the last 8 years of growing, I have been on this board for over 4 years but I usually don't say much but I just had to vent a little bad luck frustration but I will say this, my tomatoes are doing great! It has been so hot my hive of honey bees pulled up stakes and left their hive in a old outbuilding where they have lived for the last 10 years also :-(
With our luck this year we will get hit with hail again (One of our rainstorms was a hailstorm and did the plants no good).

Good Luck and may the good weather and pumpkin gods be with you :-)

Errol


At 11:11 AM 7/5/02, you wrote:

Have just enough time to spend a brief visit to my computer and e mails to realize a 4th of July posting was needed. Apologies to those I have not e mailed...

Colorado Springs is DRY and HOT, more so than other areas of the state. Growers here in the Springs look to have a very possible disastrous season. We have had the driest recorded winter spring and summer since they started keeping records. So far my results are good despite poor conditions...

I am growing the 712 Kuhn, 1064 Needham, 845 Bobier in the # 1 patch, along with a 991 clone x self,, 563 Geerts clone, 711 Sawtelle, and 891 Holland x 354 Eiffler cull as back ups {more so....I'd call them experimental plants, as they will be culled soon to make room}. I also have a 975 Gervais and another 1064 {a once sick} Needham growing next door {#2 patch} in neighbors yard, an 850.5 Hester in a friends [Adam Eiffler} yard, and a 354 Eiffler {991 Hunt x 723 Bobier} as well in a mowing clients yard. {#3 patch}

Time has been short this season, and am not able to get on line much being way too busy. I am guilty of not tending to my plants as insane as I normally would, but I seem to still be doing well. Pollinated the 1064 on 6-27-2002, and will be pollinating the 712, 845, and another on the 1064 very soon. The 850.5 Hester will be pollinated tomorrow { July 5th }. Good friend of mine James Kane is growing the 845 Nesbitt and is seeing super growth from it...already 2 pollinated pumpkins on it. Plant shot sides out long before most plants ever do.

So, What ever happened to the clone guy? The 746 Scherber clone is no longer of this world either, dying in 110 plus temps in the springtime inside of a cold frame I was unable to get home in time to provide adequate air to. My breeding experiment is now one year behind, or, perhaps even two, if a silver bullet plant is not discovered growing this season. The 746 Scherber may be dead, but I am not, nor is that experiment. I have had 3 pumpkins open so far....females... with no males in town to use. That is a reason alone to keep a great plant alive for a breeder plant. I'll be back in the clone laboratory again this winter, you can count on that.

Until I have time again, best wishes to everyone, lots of luck, and happy growing to EACH and EVERYONE. I'll send some personal e mails out when things stabilize a little bit...

"Madman" Marc Sawtelle

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