Re: easy to tell if it is squash...

In a message dated 10/09/2001 3:15:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, TEbeachy@aol.com writes:



   What if a "completely" green squash has a few specks of orange?  What
about the bottom, isn't the bottom usually cream, a pumpkin color?  Just a
few questions I am looking for answers to.  I guess you could say I am one
that likes to see orange, and only orange.  A "pumpkin" with 50 percent green
isn't photogenic, and sponsors dont like sponsoring visually unattractive
fruit.  Maybe this could, or should be looked at from the sponsor's view
point since if we didn't have sponsors, there would be no reason to classify
as either squash or pumpkin.  Without sponsors, they would all be squash
regardless of color.  Just some thoughts to ponder.
Tom Beachy



I may be wrong here but, I can't think of a PGPGA sponsor this yr. that would have given a rats behind if the winner was 60/40, 75/25 or any other combination you can come up with. The sponsor is looking for exposure, not green or orange !!
  I believe most of the Dill Atlantic Giant seeds which most of us grow have the green gene somewhere in the lineage. For all of you orange enthusiasts, and I do agree orange is pretty, if you can guarantee me, someone else or even yourself that any given seed will absolutely throw a pumpkin or a squash, you're better than I am!
  I do know that when your hopes are to grow a large pumpkin and a greenie shows up from a seed line that has never before thrown a squash, it can be quite the bummer,ie: my son last yr. with a 894 Geerts.I believe also it's as much work to grow a 568.8 squash as it is to grow a 1000 LB pumpkin. Personally, I have no problem with growing squash, except for the disparity in the prize money. Yes, I know, we are to grow for the love of it, and I certainly do, but, due to the fact that you can't control 100% what color you will get, it does seem to be a tad inequitable.
  Having said all that, I'm not  sure what the solution should be. I do feel the grid system should be scraped and I'm leaning towards, green is squash and all else is pumpkin. From my limited exposure of viewing fruit over the last 3 yrs, it has appeared to me that the squash are easily identifiable, even if they have started to cantaloupe and get some tan shades on the webbing.
  Somebody still has to convince me though, why the prize money should be different since these are the "Dill Atlantic Giants ".

Scott Werking
Ashville,PA.
PB 713,    2001

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