Re: 1370 Rose--why are the offspring orange?

  I'd like to find some giant seed sso i can start some for neighbors little
boy to help with and have some fun for him any one got some for sale  for
super large size .......would love to take him and his dad to fair with a
giant for fun.

 thanks
  dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DBHASKARAN@aol.com>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: 1370 Rose--why are the offspring orange?


> Matthew,
> Thanks, but I'm not much of a genetics major.  I do like the  red/orange
> though!
> My thoughts?
> It is true that the 1370, in theory, should only throw Orange about 1 in 4
> times...but the 845 Bobier does have a 567.5 Mombert(red orange!) ....plus
the
> 810 McInnis from '96 is also on the other half of the bracket and that was
an
> ok  orange...so maybe this alignment produces very high  nice orange
> colors....like the 801.5 Stelts,  810 Dill, 940 Mombert, etc.
> Not sure what else to say...except  to wish everyone a great 2006  Season
> growing nice red/orange pumpkins!  :-)
> David Bhaskaran
> Rochester, MN
>
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