Re: 1999's best performing seeds: 935 Lloyd, 968 Sproule . . . ?
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- Subject: Re: 1999's best performing seeds: 935 Lloyd, 968 Sproule . . . ?
- From: W* K*
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 06:59:53 -0400
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Hey Ken you let out the secret.......glad I have a couple........but was to
dumb to plant them.......700.......800.....and 900 lber in the first
year.......wow.........wayne
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> From: Reinsborough <moto@nbnet.nb.ca>
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: 1999's best performing seeds: 935 Lloyd, 968 Sproule . . .
?
> Date: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 7:47 PM
>
> Matthew Isom wrote:
> >
> > With two world records in as many years, I'd have to say that the 935
Lloyd is
> > my choice for the best seed in the world at this time. I am interested
to hear
> > how others did with the 815 Checkon, though, since it produced that
> > 1190? Womper. No doubt the 968 Sproule is looking good too, now that
it
> > produced the 1036.5, and as with last year, the 946.5 is hard to argue
against.
> > Maybe some of you could help me out as I try to figure out which seeds
did the
> > best in 1999 so that I can waste hundreds of hours this winter
dreaming,
> > scavanging, scheming and trading.
> >
> > I need to know which seeds produced all of the big pumpkins this year,
and
> > although I could just wait until the Ottowa guys publish the results, I
just can't
> > wait (heck, I've already spent four days fidgetting with no more
pumpkins in the
> > patch. I hardly know what to do with myself.)
> > So . . . if you know which seeds grew the following pumpkins (as well
as the
> > male pollinators), why don't you post the results so we can all start
dreaming:
> >
> > Pumpkin Female Male
> > 1131 Checkon 935 Lloyd ?
> > 1036.5 Kline 968 Sproule ?
> > 1009.5 Eaton ? ?
> > 986.4 Bobier ? ?
> > 981.5 Gervais ? ?
> > 947.5 Patrick ? ?
> > 946.5 Haegens ? ?
> > 908.5 Eaton ? ?
> > 875 Dill ? ?
> > 837 Thorson ? ?
> >
> > Others? I also curious about big pumpkins (other 800+ grown by
relatively
> > inexperienced growers, too, since you wonder if maybe they could have
been
> > even bigger
> >
> >
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> I think you'll find that the 780 Eaton 98 played a big part in many
> records this year and in most cases it weighed heavy as high as 20%.
> This past weekend it set two provincial records, New Brunswick and
> Prince Edward Island with the later grown by Bill VanIderstine, a second
> year grower placing second to Howard Dill and having his pumpkin weigh
> 16.5% heavy. I plan on trying this one again....Ken Reinsborough,
> Dalhousie, N.B. Canada
>
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