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From:
h*@pei.sympatico.ca
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 5:52
AM
Subject: Re: AG thoughts
Mike: If it works anything like animals, I'v bred foxes for 20+ years
& have found
that staying with the same blood lines, you lost size but increased
quality, you needed
that outcross to maintain size & your biggest ones regardless of
quality came from
totally outcrossing. Maybe the selfing will increase the color, shape
ect. but I really
believe it hurts size & is this not what we are hunting for in this
sport. How many
selfed has grown big ones.?????
Hey list; this is a good subject
& all input should help us all. So let's hear from you,
with your opions. Bill Van
At 12:19 PM 11/13/01 , you wrote:
>I think too much is being read into multiple pollinators. I
think simply
>because its hard to know the future that it is a good idea to
pollinate
>whatever pops up on the main. Then you simply pick your best
prospect if
>your lucky you make a good cross but most the time you have to take
what you
>get.
>
>
>
>The cloning experiment sure was interesting. I don't
think you can get a
>clone to ever be competitive....BUT this idea is interesting I think
that
>you could expedite a SELFING PROGRAM LIKE NO OTHER. What if you
took a
>Calai 846 selfed it. Get those seeds and keep that plant alive
then grow
>that selfed846 and self it again.........now that would make for
some
>interesting seed.
>
>MB
>
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Thanks,
Bill Van Iderstine
P.E.I. Record
Holder @ 945 lbs. 2001
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