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Elmira, N,Y,

Will it matter if the shelfed pumpkin only hits 200 lbs vs. 1,000 lbs. will the genetics change ?

Becuse i had 897# PUKOS last year and it was shelf pollinated and it only hit 180 (really late set) but had some good seeds I was going to plant but did not know what had happened to the genetics?

8/19/2009 6:39:11 PM

Bristol R.I. USA

I would think that the seeds would carry the same genetics as the parents. You're just didnt grow the pumpkin for size. I could be wrong.

8/19/2009 8:34:34 PM

Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia

Weight means nothing. 125 Wolf, 275 Van Hook, 227 Leland, need I go on. Good genetics are just that.

8/19/2009 10:02:21 PM

Bemidji Minnesota

Great genetics in a mediocre patch can only give mediocre results, but the genes are just as good as if they were planted in a Pro Patch. You put the sees of a mediocre pumpkin, from a poor patch, into a Pro Patch, and you can get Pro Results.

The seed the Pumpkin has inside is just as good if it was restricted to 200 pounds, or cared for to grow to 1200, or more.

If a pumpkin was grown to say only 90 pounds, self pollinated, and but had been grown in a shaded patch, with sunlight for only 3 hours a day, never watered, and no fertilizer, no sprays, grown soil that had an OM level of 0.3%, with a salt content of 10%, and the plant lost its primary stump and all secondary vine to SVBs, completely abused, but that plant still put on 90 pounds of fruit, I would want one of those seeds. That thing could be the mother of monsters if grown in a better patch.

8/24/2009 1:21:57 PM