Re: PUMPKIN - SQUASH - AND OPEN CLASS

Alan: What's wrong with the grid system if its only used on questionable fruit, how many would
there be in general at any weigh off ??? Not that many I think unless we all are trying to cheat
a little and get that extra wall thickness. The problem I am having is, I planted a pumpkin in 2000
got a squash, wanted a squash in 2001, planted seed with both parents squash, got a pumpkin.
Our seed genetics has gone to hell, It's a crap shoot at this point in time & shouldn't be when we brag
so much about family trees. Something is wrong ????? or we have to separate the breeding in a more
forceful manner. Color   Squash-Pumpkin-Squashum


At 10:54 PM 10/9/01 , you wrote:
>List, this is a copy of an Email I sent to the list last year. As a note, not
>a single reply to it was made last year.
>
>       I would like to propose that 3 classes be incorporated into all
>weigh-offs.
>
>  Glass 1  PUMPKIN   All specimens in this class must be 90% Yellow to Orange.
>  Glass 2  SQUASH    All specimens in this class must be 90%  Gray blue or
>Green
>  Glass 3  OPEN         All specimens not qualifying for class 1 or 2.
>                                 This third class will include all, and could
>also be called, Giant Cucurbit, Squmpkin or Giant Gourd Class. All White and
>multicolored fruit will be in this class. As in baseball, where all plays to
>close to call go to the runner, we will have the rule if it is to close to
>call as a pumpkin or squash, it goes in Class 3.  My reason for this is
>simple. To encourage the purest color strains of PUMPKIN and SQUASH to
>prevail. It will improve the color strains of all pumpkins and squash. It
>will make it easy on the judges. We will know, without seeing a picture of
>the fruit, (pumpkin or Squash) that it met these strict guide lines, so it
>must be what it says it is. This also would eliminate the new Grid-System,
>that must be very time consuming to implement at a weigh-off.
>
>         Alan R.
>      The Tarp Guy
>
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Thanks,
Bill Van Iderstine
P.E.I. Record Holder @ 945 lbs. 2001

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