Re: So what am i to think ??
If you ask me - the sure way to scare someone off from trying your seeds is
to state that you have multiple pollinators or the seed is the result of
open pollination. In the interest of purified lines and knowing exactly what
you got and as a result hopefully increasing the consistency of the seed I
would prefer a seed from a known parentage. Kinda defeats the purpose of
going to the trouble of carefully covering all your female and male blooms.
If you look at how much pollen it really takes to do the job - one fat male
bloom should be enough if distributed evenly.
The Emmons seed is just another example of another popular seed with
multiple pollinators - and will leave people asking " wonder which
pollinator I got". Ok for some but the uncertainty factor weighs heavily
with me.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cliff Warren" <cliffrwarren@hotmail.com>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: So what am i to think ??
>
> On the Emmons plant with two pollinators, it would be
> very interesting to know which male pollinator entered
> first... that one might have got the best of it.
>
> Also, assuming that the female flower's lobes coorespond
> in physical location to the resulting seeds (which I
> think they do) it might make an interesting experiment
> to pollinate one half of the female, on JUST ONE SIDE
> with one male and the other half, on the other side
> with another male. Doing so could lead to some interesting
> experiments on how much the female and the male actually
> contribute to the resulting seed. Or, consider that you
> may want more crosses than what you have space for, this
> could get you an extra cross. (I realize there are a lot
> of holes in this idea...) You may want to get your fine
> surgical instruments out to do the pollination. And in
> the resulting pumpkin you'd need to find the dividing line.
>
> Or maybe your pumpkin just splits along the "dividing line". ;-)
>
> Just throwin' out ideas,
>
> Cliff
>
>
>
> >From: Pumpkinpirate1@aol.com
> >Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> >To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> >Subject: Re: So what am i to think ??
> >Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:55:39 EST
> >
> >
> > G.........
> > OH you just don't know me I am WAY too Controlling to make a crap shoot
> >on a
> >male pollinator. NO open pollination's for me !! Since I only have three
> >mounds I try my damnedest to figure out WHY AND WHAT the seed will
produce.
> >That's pretty much why I chose the seeds I did this year and pretty much
> >each
> >one beat my expectations. If You are right and Geneva pollinated the
> >pumpkin
> >with two flowers for complete pollination only that lends me to believe
> >that
> >she would not grow that seed but since she did grow it, it makes me think
> >she
> >did it on purpose. You would have to think she can grow any seed she
wants
> >why would she grow a crap shoot instead of a proven or even a more
complete
> >parentage seed except if she had a better reason in doing so??? well I am
> >just reading way too deep into this I guess but I still smell
> >CONSPIRACY.....
> >HA HA HA .....
> >
> > Kevin Smith
> > Torrance CA
>
>
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