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Marion,IN

I tried carving on offspring of the 998.6. As long as I went with the grain of the pumpking flesh everything was fine. If I tried going against the grain, it was very tough to cut through. I know Andy W. talked about one of his pumpkins having some tough flesh, I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced this with the 998.6 line or any other line. Seems to me this type of pumpkin meat would be heavier thus more desireable? Any thoughts or ideas??

1/30/2009 4:30:01 PM

Rhode Island

its just like a piece of meat. cut with the grain and its easy, cut against the grain and its more difficult.
id bet its the same for any large pumpkin

i think its all joe pukos fault anyway. hes a tough old bird . id advise anyone with a 998 seed to send all to me for review.

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1/30/2009 4:36:23 PM

Ohio

Mark, What was the cross?,,,or was it a pumpkin grown off the 998 Pukos you was carving?

1/30/2009 5:15:38 PM

Walton N.y.

we grew the 1121 Bobier (a remake of the 1068 cross) last year and that pumpkin had a woody flesh through the whole pumpkin and was very tough to carve while the fruit off of the 1402 and 1376 Bobier had flesh more like that of a cantaloupe and carved fairly easy (except for thickness)

1/30/2009 5:56:07 PM

Marion,IN

Brooks, the pumpkin that I carved was a 1297 Ghaye which is a selfed 998 Pukos. Incidently, I crossed your 1402 into the 1297. Out of about 10 AG's I have ever carved faces into for halloween, the 1297 was by far the most challenging to get a smooth cut. The pumpkin had many different layers: one layer would be light orange, then a layer of dark orange with many different layers of green mixed in between.

Mark G.

1/30/2009 7:59:41 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Get ahold of that slashermovie nightmare large knife off a Quikcut set that has squarish chainsaw blade like serrations on one side and a wavy blade on the other.

That will easily saw across the toughest grain on a pumpkin IF it's thin enough for the blade to go through. You have to be careful though, there's NO dull edge to push on to help guide the sawblade side.

1/30/2009 11:34:10 PM

Ohio

that 1407 Wolf had a real neat looking texture to it, Ive never seen a pumpkin like his before. How much % heavy did that 1407 go anyway?

1/31/2009 4:17:39 AM

Williamsburg,KY

This is how we do it in Williamsburg, KY

http://bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=98761

Croley

1/31/2009 6:24:11 AM

Jefferson Me

We've carved out my P.B. into a Jack O Lantern the last two years. We draw on the face first,then we use a Saws-all with a long wood blade, Works great.Of coarse it takes quite a light. I found my shop light reflecting off the back side of the rear wall works good.

1/31/2009 9:51:33 AM

Western NY

There have been a few popping up with some odd flesh types. Usually stuff coming from the 723/845 line. Most of the bright orange ones are easier to carve.

There is not normally a "grain" to them, running on one direction, but it is happening. Unless you do sculpture in them like the grumpkins.com guy, you'll almost never notice it if you're just going to hack it up for seeds.

1/31/2009 10:57:31 AM

Preston CT

My 1130 Jutras was real tough...I cut my thumb and almost needed stitches....1354x998...ouch!

1/31/2009 7:54:45 PM