Re: what causes the green?
In a message dated 09/10/00 14:48:34 GMT Daylight Time, LIpumpkin@aol.com
writes:
> Subj: Re: what causes the green?
> Date: 09/10/00 14:48:34 GMT Daylight Time
> From: LIpumpkin@aol.com
> Sender: owner-pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Reply-to: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>
> In a message dated 10/9/2000 6:31:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> dhouser2@syix.com writes:
>
> << Two of my friends grew A G's from the same seed stocks and lived less
> then
> 5
> miles apart one of them grew a 319 pound pumpkin and the other grew a 400
> pound squash I am wondering if it could pollination/ The guy who grew the
> pumpkin hand pollinated and the other let the bees do it?? Go figure >>
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> Dennis....the 319 lb pumpkin grower has obviously done something wrong to
> get orange (just kidding!). This is common....what was the seed they both
> grew?--this may shed some light on the "problem with the orange one". As
you
>
> likely have read here, color changes can continue past the growth stage
of
> these fruit....many continue to green or blue up near the end. Perhaps one
> was more mature (older) than the other? Was it a squash color from the
start
>
> or a change?....we need more info !!!!...G
>
GLENN
Tell the truth now, you hired a chopper and have been touring the States and
Canada, spray paint can in hand trying to get everyone convinced that GREEN
will overcome ORANGE, CREAM, SALMON PINK ETC, and the World will be over run
with SQUASH. Guess what colour paint was in the spray can. HMMMMMMMMMM. lol
lol lol lol
MIKE
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