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DeWitt, Iowa

Im just wondering how was the Dill's Atlantic Giant seed started????

10/18/2009 9:07:02 PM

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Long story. I can provide some details later if no one else has.

10/18/2009 9:12:54 PM

Bemidji Minnesota

I think Howard Dill bred them using a few different varieties of C.Maxima making F1 Crosses, then F2, and re-crossing to gain several desirable traits together.

Then de-hybridized them, via self pollination and successive selection and elimination for a desirable result of getting a relatively consistent pumpkin shape and color in a large sized new C.Maxima Cultivar.

What ones he used? Not sure, Possibly a large green flat Maxima squash? Maybe Hubbards and Cinderella pumpkins (both C. Maxima)?

10/18/2009 10:02:39 PM

Bloomington, IN

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/MsgBoard/ViewThread.asp?b=3&p=146422

10/19/2009 12:09:09 AM

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http://www.bigpumpkins.com/MsgBoard/ViewThread.asp?b=3&p=146422

10/19/2009 12:59:30 AM

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Funny.

10/19/2009 12:59:56 AM

Upstate S.C.

Like Tremor said, it is a VERY long but interesting story, that starts with Howard as a child on his farm Canada. He pretty much invested a life time into isolating the gene, doing that with ONLY big pumpkin's at that time, and one's that he grew. Howard was as brillant of a business man as he was a grower. We owe pretty much everything to him and his work. Short but the jest.

10/19/2009 2:15:07 AM

Ohio

Troop read into it just a tad farther, Ray Watermans name should pop up quiet often having a hand in there with his success on the bussiness side of it, but like Tremor said, it is a long story.

10/19/2009 5:06:54 AM

Antigonish,Nova Scotia,Canada

I believe he may have used some "Show-King" squash when crossing some of his early giants.

10/19/2009 10:27:27 PM