Re: Pumpkin Metamorphosis
Doug,
Your welcome for the seeds, but I am curious, what seed did the greening
pumpkin come from? Mine has given off lots ofgreen hues and hints inside the
cantalouping, and some on the list lately have discussed that being not just
genetic, but possibly an environmental, conditional thing. I am not convinced
one way or another,but curious if the seed that grew this fruit has other
tendancies. Some of the best seed out there has thrown squash , or
pumpkin/squashJeckyl/Hyde type situations. This year alone the Eaton 1009 grew
the biggest squash in Clarence, while in years past the Sproule 968, Mackenzie
1010, Andersen 815 to name a few have either thrown a squash or two, converted
a couple, or just plain grown all squash. I guess with any seed, there is no
guarantee, as years ago, most of these AG's have had squash introduced into its
genetic background to create heavier pumpkins through wall thickness and other
squash type niceties..
Anyways, green does look awesome carved, so have fun with it..
Doug.Parker@sce.com wrote:
> All............
>
> Here are the end of season stats for my first year growing AGs:
>
> Lessons learned - plenty
> Mistakes made - even more
> 250 Lbs - Green (226 OTT)
> 245 Lbs - Orange (224 OTT)
>
> One of my mistakes was planting too early, which means I've had my two
> "pickling fruit" setting on the back porch now for over a month. They're
> holding up quite well and will make it to Halloween just fine. However,
> during the last couple of weeks I've noticed that the orange one (of the
> creamy salmon type) is becoming increasingly green. What started out as
> some light green patches down towards its resting side have spread to the
> point that they now cover about 45% of the surface area. I've seen this
> greening effect with Prizewinners where, once picked, the pale yellow
> resting side slowly turns a dark forest green. But it doesn't invade the
> orange. Here, the green is actually displacing the salmon orange. Is this
> normal? At this rate I'll have a completely green squashkin by the end of
> the month. Not that I'm complaining mind you, I think green is fine. I'm
> just surprised.
>
> Congrats to all who have weighed in so far and best of luck to all the rest
> this weekend.
>
> Thanks again Rocky for all the wonderful seeds.
>
> Doug Parker
> Sierra Madre CA
>
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