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Re: The 5$ question

>The rules of the game were grow the biggest damn pumpkin you can that
>weighs a ton....... it was open to intelligence and any way you could
>psyche out the game.  and believe me there have been some wild  ideas...
>and what ever the Zehrs do works!! they have  psyched it out and kicked
>butt.... MAYBE! Does anyone know for sure what they do this cloning BLAH
>BLAHBLAH...... Look at Greer 1006 on basics. 990,945,941 and a few
>others....  In alot of our large pumpkins in 96 they were off spring of
>the 804 Zehr.. and many other zehr combos.  Maybe they do this  genetic
>check or what ever is___  cutting through the fat and passing us a better
>seed.  And not costing us regular joes or janes for the check. I would
>never box Mike Tyson but sooner or later the big guys will
>fall................Brock
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>>> I've been listening attentively to these discussions about the Zehr's.
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>>> You've infered the use of colchicine in doubling chromosome numbers.  Do
>>> you think anyone has had the resources to make a poly ploid pumpkin and be
>>> able to sucessfully get it out of tissue culture and into the ground?
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>>The technical know-how and resources to clone plants and otherwise affect
>>them in quintessential chromosomal reproduction and growth has been
>>understood and used for a great many years.  I can well remember attending
>>a somber symposium on that issue and other ethical issues in 1974!
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>>If the Zehr's are in fact using the methods mentioned, then they ought to
>>be enetering their pumpkins in a different category.  Analagously, it's
>>like a bodybuilder on steroids contesting against a bodybuilder who
>>refuses to use steroids.
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>>Frankly, although I can appreciate the quest of growing the biggest
>>pumpkin, it loses all joy and fun if there are those who are using
>>laboratory genetic methods.
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>>I am an organic grower.  My goal is to produce the best (perhaps biggest)
>>nutritious pumpkin possible.  I grow plants basically for four reasons
>>        1.  For food
>>        2.  For beauty, and sometimes utilitarian reasons
>>        3.  For curiosity/scientific exploration
>>        4.  And just for the sake of it
>>
>>I have developed some interesting organic methods in growing crops.
>>I'll share them sometime soon.
>>
>>Richard
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