Re: 300 pound stock
Steve, breading big pumpkins with other big pumpkins does not ensure
that these seeds will keep producing bigger offspring. Evolution works by
making things fit for their environments. Bigger pumpkins don't necasarily
mean they are more fit. Evolution may try to prohibit increasing sizes of
pumpkins since they do take up huge amounts of water, and the larger a object
is, the more surface area it has and the more water it loses to it's
environment in relation to its volume. Just remember, survival of pumpkins
doesn't have to be and most likely isn't related to how big they get.
Greg
--- Great Pumpkin <greatpumpkin99@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Little pumpkins and big off-spring - how about the famous Momberg >567.5
> >and
> >all its fabulous progeny?
>
> >In a more general sense, don't the grandparent determine the fruit >more
> >than
> >the parents?
> >My two cents.
>
> >John - in cold and windy CA.
>
> >Steve,
> >Maybe big fruit is not inevitable. Think about the normal curve - and
> about
> >structural limitations.
> >Just some thoughts.
> >All lines do not run straight out of a textbook.
> >John
> >
>
> First, the 567.5 is tops not necessarily because of weight, (it has never
> produced a 1000 pounder and probably never will), but for consistancy. It
> has solid genetics, which also usually denotes good health and vigor in the
>
> line.
> The grandparents have about the same amount of influence as the parents,
> overall. I don't know where you heard that from?
> As far as fruit size, structural limitations are actually the whole point
> of
> plant evolution. The whole process of evolutuion is nature finding a way
> around limitations. In the end, I don't care how it happens, if big fruited
>
> plants are only bred with other big fruited plants, over time, and possibly
>
> hundreds of generations, the fruit will become progressively bigger. It is
> all about survival. Of course in extreme situations, any species of any
> living organism can be stopped in it's tracks, (like the meteor/dinosaur
> event), where nature cannot find a way to continue the species. But this is
>
> probably because the situation happens too fast for nature to keep up.
> (Like
> species of animals and other organisms becoming extinct in the rain
> forests), etc. But, nature, given enough time, can pretty much find a way
> to
> make any species survive.
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
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