Re: anybody growing the 582 Hester this season?

Dave, 
Interestingly, I am growing another Hester, the 1028/01 that I obtained 
thru the NPGPGA raffle.  It is displaying some of the characterisics you
describe.  As the main vine grew longer, it got wider and wider and had 
duplicates of everything on it kinda like a siamese twin.  It did, 
however, produce female flowers at about 15 feet out, but there were 
four of them all at once in very close proximity.  It also split just 
ahead of the 4 female flowers.  Then it "brocoliied" just beyond the 
females like Jack describes in his question about the 812 LaRue (exerpt 
below).......... 

I need a little advice on what to do with my 812 LaRue. It has produced 
a 
> double vine and split at about 15 feet. It has produced a pumpkin that
had 
taken 
> but, I feel that the vine is to mutated to sustain a fruit to full 
term. 
> Should I dead head it, leave it and bury it, it kind of looks like a 
very 
large 
> head of broccoli It's a mutant 
> I have let the first secondary vine take over as the primary vine and 
I 
have 
> two pumpkins that have set on it 
> A little advice is all I need. 
> Thanks 
> Bob WAZ New Jersey 
 
I was also tempted to cull the whole plant, but what I decided to do is 
pick off 3 of the 4 females and pollinate the remaining one (today).  I 
also cut off the whole main vine just past the female I pollinated.  My 
thinking is maybe this is so mutated that, like the Incredible Hulk, it 
will produce a giant mutant pumpkin that is out of this world.  I have a
couple of other good prospects on other plants, so I guess this is an 
experiment.  Seriously though, from those who know, is this mutation 
something we should strive to eliminate (like hip dysplasia in dogs)?  
Or is this double vine or flat vine or whatever you want to call it some
kind of indicator of great potential?  Is it a genetic thing or an 
environmental thing? 

Kurt Frederick 
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 
***************************************** 
At 10:01 AM 7/10/2003 -0400, you wrote: 
>Is there anybody out there growing the 582 Hester this season?  I would
be 
>interested in your feedback.  I am growing the 582 Hester myself but 
have 
>had very bad luck with it so far, it flat-vined on me and now it will 
not 
>even throw a female flower (I have had only a few males on it so far).
  The 
>flat vine finally broke off into two leaders, of which I terminated 
one. 
> 
>Thanks, 
> 
>Dave 
>Sterling, MA 
> 
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