Re: potential

Title: Re: potential
on 11/18/01 10:16 AM, LIpumpkin@aol.com at LIpumpkin@aol.com wrote:

I'm sure this isn't what your looking for but my 502.5Ciliberto plant of 2000 showed all the signs of a great plant...7.5 inch circumference main vines, 24 inch leaves thick as cardboard,aggressive (semi-aggressive anyway), lots of females, but it never set fruit. It pollinated my 455Andrews00 (from 722Holland, same cross as 697ciliberto except the 502 was green for me...imagine that!) which has produced well....954* and 655)
I was so impressed with the plant that I chose to keep it over winter as a clone and I grew it again last year......huge leaves, huge vine, would not set fruit. Two years....no fruit. Im encouraged that I've done the right thing by keeping it as a clone with the results of mark Pistono's squash...700pounds in 37 days..954 before a small hole appeared...next year (should it survive my basement environment again) I will use it as a pollinator again.
  You ask this posted question with some ideas in mind I'm sure....whats going on?...............G

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G,

Thats what I was looking for that the next generation made it.  I think that your cutting from the same plant  possibly indicates that its a genetic quirk.  I have in the past thought it was enviromental ...and still might be ....but the cutting was placed in a different environment the next season? and it still carried the  quirk of no fruit......interesting.    I still don't know what to think as one common thing that I have notice on these plants that don't produce fruit is that they have been a outrageous plant.  Aggressive.....  but thats only one piece of  the puzzle....you need all the criteria of a successful plant.

Thats why selecting from the ones that make it to the weigh-offs  with good results makes good sense.  But I  have special admiration for those growers with the room that test out a new seed and discover a winner ...a new leader and new direction.  Trail blazing.  we sure need everyone uniqueness  and  unconventional choices...Mb

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