Breeding AG for eating

pumpkins@mallorn.com wrote:
> 
> AG fruit are excellent eating.   The key is that the best fruit are 
> fully mature, and have dark flesh. Also look for those with fine 
> grained flesh, I have had the best from descendants of the 917 Zehr, 
> and 539 Stellpflug. 
> Nic Welty
> 
Dear Nic Welty and others
  Barb Kincaid is sending me two seeds she has selected and I will cross
them in an 1800 sq ft plot. That will be my first start in AG after
looking longingly at the pictures in the Shumway (Rockford IL) catalog
50+ years ago. 
  I think I am more interested in large, dependable, eating pumpkins
than in record weights. I joined this list to learn about growing eating
pumpkins before I learned the list is aimed at record weights. I was
really disappointed when my first message brought replies that AGs are
watery and useless as food for man or beast. 
  Therefore, I was elated over the recent posts that AG make good pies,
bars, etc. 
  As a kid and for fun since then, I have enjoyed selfing grains from a
single ear of corn to see the great variety of types that generally
result. One gets lots of interesting ratios from such and this is a nice
project for any schoolkid. Just begin with an ear from a roadside market
that has a huge variety of colors, etc, which were grown in a simple
patch.
  Now I come to the point of this request. I would like to plant a dozen
seeds which came from ONE FRUIT which was good eating. I would then self
and sib in hopes of learning something about the genetics of AG. I have
already been to the genetics cooperative lists that Mike lists in his
genetics site. I have been a member or avid reader of such genetics
cooperatives for corn, Tribolium, Tomato, Drosophila, etc. 
  Nic and others, if you have 6 to 12 seeds you can spare from a single
fruit, preferably a good eating line or cross, please e-mail me some
information about the fruit and the general traits of its pedigree (if
know). I would hope the line I begin with has good disease resistance
and other traits important in a good eating fruit. I will keep the list
advised of anything I learn and make the seeds freely available. 
  I would like to keep the vines for these 6 to 12 plants pruned to
produce 1 to 3 medium fruits each in minimum space so that I can grow as
many plants as possible. Any genetics project is improved when one has
lots of individuals to study and select from. How much space will each
plant need?
  Nic, when you said dark flesh, did you mean deep orange flesh?

-- 
Harold Eddleman Ph.D. Microbiology and Genetics.      
i*@disknet.com 
Location: Palmyra IN USA; 36 kilometers west of Louisville, Kentucky
http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab



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