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FW: accuracy of weight charts

>X-Sender: dgs@pobox1.stanford.edu (Unverified)
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>Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 18:12:43 -0700
>To: pumpkins@athenet.net
>From: Dan Shapiro <dgs@leland.stanford.edu>
>Subject: weight charts
>
>I just wanted to report that Marcellus' weight chart was *amazingly*
>accurate.  It pegged the size of my largest pumpkin (Bertha) exactly to the
>pound!
>
>Actually, I measured it a day before picking, and the projected weight
>*including one day's worth of growth* precisely equalled the weight on the
>half moon bay scale.
>
>Personally, I think it was the Greer 946.5 seed.  The plant was like a
>convenient baby; it ran when it was supposed to run, it produced female
>flowers at exactly the right moment, and it self-pruned to two pumpkins,
>which grew stem down so that I didn't even need to support the vines.  And
>while I wasn't looking, the plant read Marcellus' chart.
>
>Optimists on the left, pessimists on the right.... does this mean next year
>will be easy or hard?
>
>	Dan Shapiro <dgs@leland.stanford.edu>
>
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