Re: not twins?

Roger,
     okay, so let me see if i understand this.
(1)    By self pollinating, you know pretty much what you're getting the
next year withing a resonable amount of accuracy.

(2)  You could then take 2 plants that were self pollinated, and cross
them the following year.

(3)  the cross wouldn't show up until the year after, upon which time
you would have to start the process all over again of self pollinating.

But at this point, wouldn't you have to self pollinate most of the seeds
from the crossed pumpkin, to see which ones had the characteristics
you're looking for?  that could take a very long time.  I see what
you're getting at though, (i think) you want to raise the probability of
growing a really big one, not just one time, but consistantly, right?
So in effect, everyone should be after the 1092 seed, is that correct?
Or the anderson 977 seed?  Am i totally off base here, or am i on the
trail?  I wonder how long it would take to isolate certain
characteristics to grow the biggest possible ever?  by the way, what is
colchine?  and what does it do?

scott




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Scott,  Every time you cross-pollinate distinctly different varieties
the
first generation is going to be genetic soup.  The seeds from this cross
could exhibit every phenotype in the history of both strains.  This may
be
why one year someone grows a big pumpkin and then the next they don't. I
feel there has been way to much cross-pollination with the pumpkins.
Depending on the genetics involved you could have a 1% chance of getting
the seeds you want.  If a person has lots of room you could grow them
out
to find what you want.  I think that people who are growing for size
should
have self-pollinated seeds that are at least 1 generation down from the
cross.  This is why I started working with colchine.  But it has turned
out
to be a slow process because of my climate.  Have fun, Roger

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