Re: Pollination
Kathie
You Wrote...
In a previous post, you suggested pollinating everything on the main with
the same male so as to eliminate that one variable when culling time begins.
I never thought of the male as being so important that one would base a
culling decision on it. Can someone explain to me WHY it's important, unless
you're growing seeds to sell?
Kathie come on you know this game as well as I do !!! I plan all winter as
to the pumpkins I am growing to fit around my crosses. if we didn't care about
the pollination then we would let everything just go open pollination !! if
you had been planning a pollination for the whole winter say you had a 935
Lloyd and you crossed one female with the 865 Mettler, one with the 703 Smith* one
with the 600.5 Gregory and one with the 895.5 Hester* just because you didn't
plan your pollination's well ahead of time. well now you have to decide all
the factors involved with choosing a pumpkin and OOPS you don't want a chance
to have a green offspring but it is growing fastest so there goes the 895.5,
OOPS but the 703* is green also and it has best shape. now we are down between
the 600.5 and the 865 ... well the 865 will produce seeds that have a Higher
potential for people to grow if it turns out to be a big pumpkin since the 723
and 845 are the same cross ... so I would want the 865 cross to remain .....
see what you have created ..... yes, a Mess !!! so simplify and enjoy what we
are doing !!! Got it !!! take care and have a wonderful season!
Kevin Smith
Squash Buckler !!! Still waiting !!!
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