GOOD SEED--BAD CONDITIONS
I'd like to get some input on future generations' potential on the above
subject. If I had a seed that had good parents, great grandparents &
great-grandparents, etc and it was grown in poor soil, improper feeding &
watering, wrong set-out date, poor fruit set or pollination, poor growing
conditions, etc etc and it produced a small fruit short-lived by frost or
whatever reason, just how good is the harvested seed, assuming the pumpkin
was old enough to produce mature seed? My question isn't if the seed is old
enough (I already germinated some successfully) but rather what is the
potential? did it lose its good "blood" thru the generations or is it still
there? If my 792 Holland and Sherrie LaRue's UOW 1016 produced a 300 lb
pumpkin, would there be an interest in the seeds? And for those who would
want them, would you still want them if the seeds were small? If someone
grew these seeds PROPERLY, what might the results be?
I'd like to get some opinions on this. I'll be at the Niagara Falls seminar
if somebody wants to see the seeds, page me by BowTie or GoodSeed-BadSeed. I
don't think I'll know anyone there, maybe 1 or 2 at most.
Mark
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