Re: Green mottle Bad ? Oregon Update

    I agree, kill all spiders and unite the giant pumpkin contest and allow 
all colors to compete in one group.  The giant "pumpkin" group.  All logo's 
can still be orange beauties and when onlookers say "that is not orange" 
just inform them that any color squash may win.  Heck, they are not shaped 
like traditional pumpkins anyhow, why should they color like them.

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From: Orion910@aol.com
Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Subject: Re: Green mottle Bad ? Oregon Update
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:45:31 EST

Just a thought on the whole Squash, Pumpkin, Squmpkin ordeal.  Genetically
the Giant Squash and Giant Pumpkin (Who's to say it is even the same as an
Atlantic Giant Anymore, but thats a whole other story) are exactly the same.
They are Curcubita (SP?) Maxima.  Why not open the floodgates and have no
pumpkin or squash class at all and just have "Largest Curcubita Maxima"
There will not be a doubt any more as to if a fruit is 50% green, 17% purple
with brown pokadots, 13% Orange, 10% Pink, 5% cream, and 5% transparent
should be classed as a pumpkin or not.
I have seen "Squmpkins" make it through competitions classed as pumpkins
bumping out perfectly Orange "Pumpkins", and I have seen "Squmpkins" bump 
out
perfectly Green "Squash".  I know traditionally we want orange fruit, orange
pumpkins to win the prize money, but I would vote to go in favor of uniting
into the one "Maxima" class, or adding a third class "Squmpkins" those half
and halfers that only cause contreversy and hurt feelings.

On the Oregon Update tip, all is okay here.  Got bit by a non-native spider
that found its way to my upper forearm and inserted a nice little poison
which rendered my blood unable to remove cholesterol.  Right now my blood
test sets at a cholesterol level of 620.  The bite was lanced and drained
again today and biopseyed (sp) and the dermatologist also found a nice sack
of either poison, or immature eggs.  Really  pleasant let me tell you,
especially when a doctor says "Well the worst case I have seen is when we
lost a patient from a similar bite".  Good news, the blood has leveled off,
bad news, I am now 2 weeks behind in the garden on the quest for SPT2K2K, or
Squash and Pumpkin Totalling #2000 in 2000.
Good luck all, and seeds are drying well.
Brett  The Pumpkinguru  Hester

PS  KILL ALL SPIDERS !!!!!!!!

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