Re: Subject: 1999's best performing seeds: 935 Lloyd,
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- Subject: Re: Subject: 1999's best performing seeds: 935 Lloyd,
- From: r*@mindless.com
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 01:56:34 -0400 (EDT)
- List-Archive: <http://www.mallorn.com/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
In addition to the genetics of the seed lets find out the soil conditions these pumpkins were grown in, the second most important thing. How about if the growers of the top pumpkins send a sample of their soil for testing so we can see how they compare and we can determine exactly what the optimal levels of nutrients in the soil are for maximum growth potential. They can post the results of the soil test here for all to see... then we can all try to mimick those conditions...
I think this is as important to consider as the seed itself. Now would be a good time to test before the soil changes over the winter as nutrients wash from the soil and growers add to their soil.
It sounds good to me.. any comments on this idea???
---- you wrote:
>
> > Subject: 1999's best performing seeds: 935 Lloyd,
> > 968 Sproule . . . ?
> >\
> >
> > 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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