Fw: Final 746 Scherber update until weighoff results
- Subject: Fw: Final 746 Scherber update until weighoff results
- From: c*
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 07:21:30 -0600
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From: c*@earthlink.net
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:28 PM
Subject: Final 746 Scherber update until weighoff
results LAST "CLONE" UPDATE UNTIL
THE FINAL 2001 WEIGHOFF RESULTS
Here is the final "clone"
report before the final weights are in from across the country. This
breakthrough experimental project is coming to an end in 4 short weeks,
so far, all the Scherber clone
growers do not appear to be surpassing last years 1009 pumpkin, which Joe
Scherber had pumped out from this very same plant. Growers who I sent
clones to this spring and were able to grow one, have helped in propagating
pumpkin research that should help to produce some of the best genetic seed
strains in the near future. Once the season ends, I'll have time to get
into all the details of how everyone's plants did, and how they compared to one
another. A lot of interesting questions have already been answered, and
more discoveries will be learned once they are finally weighed and
carved.
Len Stellpflug, who is growing a 991 Hunt
clone, should top the 354 pound mark which that plant produced last
season, if he has not already done that at this time. Len should be
posting something on Big Pumpkins web site soon, or soon after this season is
over Grower experience
and proper growing techniques are helpful to have success with these
plants, but still, weather, soil, sun, and many other factors have affected how
growers results are turning out.
The following growers, as well as where
they live, are listed below, with non- alive or alive
status:
GERRY GADBERRY :
{WASHINGTON}
ALIVE
TOM RORQUAL :
{MARYLAND}
NON- ALIVE
TOM BEACHY :
{INDIANA}
{NO CURRENT UPDATE}
.JIM KILBERT :
{PENNSYLVANIA}
ALIVE
LEN STELPFLUG : {NEW
YORK}
ALIVE
NIC WELTY :
{OHIO}
ALIVE
ALEX UMSTED : {NEW MEXICO} NON- ALIVE BILL BORSCHEID :
{MINNESOTA}}
NON- ALIVE
MARC SAWTELLE :
{COLORADO} ALIVE
JOE SCHERBER :
{COLORADO} } ALIVE
.SCOTT LEWIS :
{COLORADO} ALIVE
JAMES KANE :
{COLORADO}
NON- ALIVE
To find out how Gadberry Stellplug,
and Kilbert are doing, visit Big Pumpkins www.bigpumpkins.com and check
out Gads & Kilr diary entries to get info on those 3 growers. I have
posted a couple also {and that's all I had time to do so far!}. Welty has his
own web site http://web.raex.com/~ldnwelty/ ,
not sure if a new update is posted. Joe Scherber's first clone plant got killed
May 22, and had to start another, which put him behind pollination schedule, and
thus too late to be able to grow anything gigantic from it. Scott Lewis also had
a late go as well, and has more than one fruit on the plant, nothing that is too
large according to him. I have had a few of my problems early on, but it will
still top my personal best {432 pounds last year}, as it is already
past that. Not sure if Tom Beachy has one still going or not, I'm waiting to
hear from him still. The other
growers listed had their plants die on them, except James Kane, who pulled his
after using it for a male pollinator to his 808 Holland.
I am not sure what estimated
weights are for everyone, so my next and final post of the year will be the
one of interest, with all the final weights of the growers still involved
in this years project. Gadberry is proclaiming himself the clone king, as he
expects his to be somewhere in the 500 pound range. Everyone has had
identical looking plants and pumpkins, except for age differences in the fruit,
and everyone's growing results sound identical to mine! More on
all that during the winter months! For the time being, I'll just say best
of luck to all clone and non- clone growers across the land at whatever
weighoff or contest you enter!
"Madman" Marc
To check out "How to keep clones alive through the winter", go to Kevin's "Holmans Hole" web site which can be accessed clicking on http://www.homestead.com/henryholman/files/pumpkin_cloning.html . Big Pumpkins has a link as well at http://www.bigpumpkins.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=31&gid=2 and Bob has some cool stuff at his killer Pumpkin Nook web site... and even made me one of his featured growers {I am honored!} find that at http://www.pumpkinnook.com/commune/featpic.htm . Mike Neperney's AGGC site {you can only get to this site using internet explorer, and you need to log in first to access TONS of genetic background info & other cool stuff} has a link also, first go to http://aggc.1wh.com/aggc.asp and log in first. |
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