Seeds
I intended my comments about the seeds to the ethics comittee as a joke.
First we nail a young guy trying to recoup some fert. cost. Now were
going to nail guys with big seed collections?
Yes"free" sometimes brings out the monster in us. Like all you can eat
for a buck hell we may go hog wild and grab more than we can finish on our
plate. After a few years of this wild behavior we settle down a bit.
So its true with AG's...........................no ones crying
foul.......with the seeds..........but if it leans towards disregard like i
have nothing better to do than mail you free seeds ...theres a problem.
I can only speak for myself here but i like to mail free seeds if I am
starting someone off in the hunt.
trading !
Or if they have the true intentions of planting them and helping me test
the new seed crop.
Keep the politics light and the pumpkins heavy!!! ..................Mbrock
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>In my humble opinion (IMHO), seeds are meant to be planted, not collected.
>Since one seed cannot be differentiated from another, it serves little
>purpose to keep them in a display case. Personally, I hope never to see a
>museum-quality seed.
>
>Another reason that seeds should be planted is one of common courtesy: the
>grower who supplied the seed undoubtedly believed the seed would be planted.
>I really doubt that growers would be as willing to share their seeds
>(actually, to do all the extra work to prepare their seeds for sharing) if
>they knew the seeds were just going to be put in a drawer rather than in the
>dirt.
>
>What good is hoarding a seed just to see if it is going to become the next
>silver bullet? This is a lazy approach to growing pumpkins -- planting only
>seeds that others have proven. Why not be the one who proves it, instead? Be
>a leader, not a follower.
>
>Lastly, a large collection of seeds necessarily takes those seeds away from
>other growers who would put them in the ground. High demand or low, those
>seeds are simply no longer available. It's a selfish misuse of another's
>generosity.
>
>Seeds are meant to be sown.
>
>Paul Thompson
>Armada, Michigan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: G Tanner [g*@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 2:11 PM
>To: Pumpkins
>Subject: Re: Presumptous
>
>
>As for big seed collections...
>
>1) many of us do have more seeds than we will ever
>plant. And maybe we should do more and be willing to
>share them with new people on the list and others.
>Many good seeds will never get plants.
>
>on the other hand ...
>2) why not ? if one want to collect them.. and
>growers are willing to give them the seeds... then who
>cares ?
>last year i tried to collect a lot because i was
>hoping that after this season i might have a proven
>winner in there somewhere !
>
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