Re: 1009 pumpkin or Squash??
Well I just checked out your pictures.......ITS A
PUMPKIN...................wayne
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From: Nic Welty <nicwelty@netscape.net>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Sunday, November 26, 2000 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: 1009 pumpkin or Squash??
>Hello everyone
>
>Quite the fun little discusion going on, I just wanted to add some of my
>input since I am back from college and have officially given up sleeping
>so I can spend more time working on the squash and pumpkin and anything
>else that grows big project.
>I added some pictures to my web site of the 947 Welty which was judged a
>squash by our local growers. You can see the pictures at
>http://web.raex.com/~ldnwelty/pumpkin/pumppic.htm
>Or just go to my home page and click on the link pumpkin pictures.
>The 947 was a very tough call for the judges, and they didn't decide
>untill after it was weighed that it was going to be a squash. It looks
>quite pink in person, and my mom calls it Pinky (assuming I am the Brain
>and together we will take over the world). Now should this fruit have
>been a squash or a pumpkin? I decided to look at it using the Pacific
>Northwest method of determining. I made my grid, and placed it on the
>locations first just eyeballing it, and then judging each square
>intuitivly as to if it was a squash or pumpkin colored square. This time
>I determined it was 71% pumpkin color. Then I went and measured out to
>make sure I took the readings in the correct place, this time it gave 79%
>pumpkin reading. I tried two more teste, one in whish I clasified any
>square with more than a couple speckles of pink as pumpkin color, this
>gave a 93% reading. I repeated this with the notion that any square with
>more than a speckle of gray/green would go as squash, thie resulted in a
>70% pumpkin reading.
>After taking these readings, it can be seen why the judging of pumpkin or
>sqush is rather dificult. I beleive this method developed by the
>Northwest growers is a good one to use. When it is difficult to tell, it
>is best to have a concrete method established for determination, and this
>will make the judging process procede much easier.
>As far as my opinion goes, I think we need to find a corporate sponser
>that will put up squash prize money. Then we can start to establish some
>squash interest since it seems that money is an important factor to many
>people, and now we only have a few squash purist growers competing
>currently. Maybe free seeds would help encourage squash growers as well,
>so I have lots of sqush seeds free for the taking for anyone who wants,
>and will arrange the safe trip for the seeds from my place to yours in a
>padded mailer.
>Good luck to all squash growers, and pumpkin growers, and watermellon, and
>radish, and carrot, and marrow, and everything else.
>
>
>Nic Welty
>
>
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