Re: Why did you pick your seeds
Essentially I'm planting whatever people have sent me.
Nearly all of this is year 2000 (unproven) seed, but
that is OK with me. I'm somewhat unproven myself.
Growing right now in the patch are:
896 Wells
789 Zunino
570 Maston
691.4 Werking
771.6 Rockwell
300 Card
483 Wells
I have the space for this and more. I do not have the
time, however. Last year I had several perish along the
way (store bought seed). So, I'm erring on the side of
having too many out there in the beginning. So far, these
plants appear much more vigorous than last year's store
bought seed. Last year, some just refused to grow much
beyond the "seed leaf" stage.
I also have a 567 Zunino that popped up today (indoors).
I'm thinking that I may use this one particularly as a
pollinator for the other surviving plants. My reasoning
for this (finally getting to the original question), is
that I've heard that color in the seed is determined
"mostly" by the father, and this 567 Zunino has a lot of
"Mombert Orange" in it. Perhaps this will help to develop
a seed stock that has good orange color? What do you think?
I hope to "self" the 567 as well.
Remember, this is the reasoning of a 2nd year grower, so
go easy on me. Yes, I want a heavy pumpkin, but having them
be a deep orange is also a consideration for me.
Also, I've given seeds to two friends who will plant them.
My neighbors are catching the bug. If you send seed to me,
it will likely get planted somewhere!
Regards, Cliff in Idaho
>From: LKNIKKI1@aol.com
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: Why did you pick your seeds
>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 22:38:55 EDT
>
>
> List
> Hello everyone...
> I have a simple question that I am very interested in. It seems that many
>of
>us have picked seeds for this year that are as different as each one of us
>but then again some have picked the same seeds. I see seeds like say the
>824
>Cramer 00, 771 Rockwell 00 and 1064.5 Needham 00. That seem to be grown by
>MANY MANY people this year and my question is this WHY did YOU pick the
>seeds
>you are growing this year..
> Was it a friends seed, or genetics of the parents, maybe it was an
>already proven seed. I just want to try a social experiment on the list and
>see WHY all of us from such diverse lifestyles and geographic location pick
>the seeds that we do. Everyone on this list has picked there seeds and
>everyone has a reason WHAT IS YOURS !!!!!
> Thank you so much in advance for your reply in advance !!!!!!!
> """"Always Remember you are unique, like everyone else """""
>
> Kevin Smith
> Torrance CA
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