Re: Don't Buy Seed!!!!!!!
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Don't Buy Seed!!!!!!!
- From: r*@dos.nortel.com
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 98 17:37:44 EST
Jon and Carrie Jaussi write:
>I have something to say here. Let this be a warning to those who don't
>know that some top growers give away seed and don't sell it.
>...
>I was able to acquire seed through this list ... for free.
>Some of the top growers will send you their seed if you just
>ask them. ...
Let me reinforce what you've said:
This is exactly true! When I first started reading this list
back in early 1998 this year, what I (erroneously) picked up on was
that good seed costs a lot of money... at the time, some auctions
were going on, with a single seed hitting $50 or more.
I certainly didn't want to enter the hobby spending $50 on
one seed, only to have some ground hog eat the sprout, so
I wound up buying store-bought commercial seed, of unknown
heritage and had very dissaspointing results. At the time,
I never *thought* to seek seed from the list, much less FREE
seed. I never knew it was possible because most of that offering
seems to go on just after seed harvest; in the Spring everyone's
focused on planting what they've already got, and it just never came up
on the list at that time.
Now a year into this, I realize that those $50+ ones were very, very
special-case, highly desirable seeds. Like you've said, there's
PLENTY of REALLY good (equally good) seed available for *free* through the
wonderful generousity of people on this list; after all, what would
you do with 1,000 seeds besides share them? I've now
gotten some truly wonderful seed from list members, complete
with amazing 6-generation family trees, photos of the actual parent
pumpkin (or squash as the color may be!) up on the Web and all, and
I'm sure I'll have a great growing season next year!
---
Rick Inzero
Northern Telecom, Inc.
Rochester, NY rdi@cci.com
"Why *ANYBODY* can grow a *BIG* one!!"
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