Re: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #24

Thanks, Toby, for the break-down of information.
There are new growers jumping in here all the time and it is nice to see a
Knowledgeable grower taking the time to explain things. There are many places
to turn, including Don,s "Growing Giant Pumpkins" series, but sometimes we
don't have time to do all the research right now. Sometimes we only need an
answer.
Thanks
Rich
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Toby Atencio
  To: pumpkins@hort.net
  Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 6:01 PM
  Subject: RE: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #24


  Tad,

  as has been stated, Bigpumpkins is a great source of information for you.
but to answer your question more directly, lets use a hypothetical seed...

  888 Orangebucket 03

  This is the name of a pumpkin, and all the seeds inside it, and all the
plants that grow from the seed.

  888 = the weight of the pumpkin
  Orangebucket = the name (usually the last name) of the grower who grew it
  03 = the year it was grown.

  Lets say you want to grow an 888 orangebucket.  You would contact the grower
(Jenny Orangebucket lets say) and ask for her 888 03 seeds.  Now you have some
888 Orangebucket seeds that came from her 888 pound pumpkin, grown in 2003.
On May first you germinate 888 Orangebucket seeds.  On July 1, you post a
question about pollinating your 888 Orangebucket female flower.  On August 1st
you post a question about healing chew holes some animal made on the pumpkin
growing from your 888 Orangebucket.  On September 1st, you inform us all that
your 888 Orangebucket is starting to slow down, haveing gained only 35 poounds
a day for the past 5 days--you are out of the 40+ pounds per day range now.
On October 3, you cut the pumpkin from the vine and take it to the weigh-off.
At the weigh-off your pumpkin weighs 914 pounds.

  Now you have a 914 MILLER 04!  People will refer to your pumpkin, and its
seeds, and the plants that come from those seeds from then on as the 914
Miller 04.

  Other lingo that you see on seed packets and stuff...
  self = means that the fruit was self polinated, not crossed with another
plant.
  Open = you did not EXPLICITLY CONTROL the polination process at EVERY
POSSIBLE MOMENT.  If there was a split secong when a bug could have flown into
either the male or female flower used in the pollination process, you have
open pollinated.
  sib = you have two plants growing from the same seed stock and cross
pollinate them.
  * = when you were at the weigh-off, judges determined that your fruit was a
squash, not a pumpkin.  If you didn't take it to the weigh-off, you get to
decide.
  UOW = UnOfficial Weight.  This means your fruit was weighed, but not weighed
on a certified scale.
  EST = this means your fruit was never weighed, only measured and the weight
was estimated based on weight charts.

  These are the ones I see the most.  I'm sure the questions can get more
specific, so fire away... Somebody here has to have answers.

  Come to think of it, what kind of nomenclature have we decided on for stuff
like clones?

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