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Linden,PA

What plants, used as male pollenaters, will provide the potentially heaviest crosses?

4/12/2009 8:24:49 AM

Brittnau , Switzerland

898 Knauss

4/12/2009 2:08:01 PM

Ohio

1450 Wallace is a good one

4/12/2009 2:31:03 PM

Minnesota

898 Knauss, Jim Beauchemin has alot of seeds with 898 Knauss, he was offering them in the ag genetics breeding posting back a few months ago, I got some and I will be planting them this year, if you want 898 Knauss I would back track to Jim-B take him up on his offer.

4/12/2009 6:49:32 PM

Linden,PA

Thanks to Jim, I was able to secure some of his 898 Knauss crosses. They will be seeing soil in my patch.

4/12/2009 7:40:06 PM

Minnesota

Your kidding, that was quick.

4/12/2009 8:55:36 PM

Greencastle, PA

I like Jim's 898 project a lot; i expect some of his crosses to be more reliable for heavy genes than the 898 itself. The 898 has grown stuff all over the chart (Rocky Rockwell grew one that was around around 150lbs light) and some of its offspring have shown the same problem (consider the 1306 Jutras, being 100% 1068, it is 50% 898 and it grew a couple of pumpkins that were about 10% under).

Here are some of my top choices for heavy pollinators:
715.5 Gervais (i think that the mother of this seed is the source of the 898's heavy genes)
805 dmg Wolf (amazing 935 Lloyd x 1407 Wolf)
1041 McKie (grew over 1600 and 20% heavy)
1100 Hester ((1260x695)x 898)
1012 Hester (842 x 898)
1255 VanKooten (20% heavy, pollinator was about 10% heavy)

4/13/2009 9:30:00 PM