re: 17 1000 pounders and 52 900 pounders, but only 4 come from self-pollinated
- Subject: re: 17 1000 pounders and 52 900 pounders, but only 4 come from self-pollinated
- From: m* i*
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 12:10:38 -0600
- List-Archive: <http://www.mallorn.com/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
As far as I can tell, there have been 69 official weight pumpkins
grown that weighed at least 900 pounds, but only 4 of them come
from seeds that were self-pollinated (for example, the 975.6 Gervais
comes from the 1092 Burke, which was a self-pollinated 935
Lloyd). The four pumpkins are the 1036.5, 975.6, 962, and the 945.
Are cross-pollinated pumpkins really more potent, or is this just a
manifestation of the fact that the vast majority of seeds out there
are cross-pollinated seeds? I do find it interesting that the 1092
hasn't had more success, considering that there were quite a few
people who grew it, but on the other hand, the 914 Weir seems to
have done very well (but did it really only have the 3 offspring listed
on the AGGC site?). It's also noteworthy that the 962 Willemse
comes from a line of four self-pollinated pumpkins and that the
greatest (?) squash of all time was the self-pollinated 900.5 Lyons.
It will be interesting to see how the self-pollinated seeds do this
year (1092, 942 VanKooten, 900.5, 827 Holman, others?). I must
admit that this year I'm not growing any self-pollinated seeds,
but . . . am I just subscribing to the same fallacy that everybody
else is, or is there really something to this business of cross-
pollinated plants being more vigorous?
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