RE: Reply:why will people pay $80+ for a 946?
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- Subject: RE: Reply:why will people pay $80+ for a 946?
- From: M*@granite.k12.ut.us (Matthew Isom)
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:37:46 +0000
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Yes, it's true that the Donkers 490 has produced some great pumpkins
(one 1000+, 1 900+, 2 800+ I think), but I wonder if we might be
falling into a trap by looking at freakish anomolies (the 567 being
the all-time king, of course). Besides the 490 and 567, it seems
that pretty much every single pumpkin over 900 pounds on the Cucurbytes
page came from giant parents. Well, maybe not quite. Of the nine
1000+ pumpkins I can think of, 5 came from 900+, 1 from an 800+ and 3
from 600+. 1000+ seeds have only produced two 900+ and 4 800+, but
the 900 pound seeds (Geerts 946 and Lloyd 935 lead the pack) have
produced 4 900+ and 10 800+ pumpkins.
If I could get my hands on a Donkers 490 or a Mombert 567, those are
the seeds that I would plant, but I can't get any so I'm going with
other 900+ seeds that have awesome-looking genetics(I must say,
however, that I beat the two guys growing Mombert 567 seeds in Utah
this year with my pumpkin grown from a Bobier 779). I'm putting my
money on the 937 Mombert that Kirk so generously gave me last week.
Even though I have some 400 and 500+ seeds with great parentage, I
think that I'll probably have to go with the seeds from the 900 pound
pumpkins. The data seems to indicate that, IN GENERAL, giant
pumpkins come from giant pumpkins.
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