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Nova Scotia

Oh yes the 1007 Brown, rings a bell for some reason?

9/24/2025 5:33:10 PM

Torrance, Ca.

That's going to be solid meat!

You grow a lot of pumpkins! How much time do you spend in the patch each day? It must be a full time day when things are really moving! Maybe when I retire I'll have time to grow more.

9/24/2025 6:54:46 PM

Syracuse, NY

***Danny, yeah, 1st half of the 898 Knauss, and always a trip through time to go and look!

***So.Cal.Grower >>> Lol. Let's hope so.


***The 1541 McMillin is as close to solid inside as I have ever grown, with extra 'stuff' that the seeds grew in.
It was so neat to see. See 3 entries therein:

https://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=342682


I've grown this many plants for years, but that's why the fruits end up being not the biggest they can be, but to each his own. I always INTEND to grow fewer and devote resultingly more time to each, butt old habits prevail. I also spend very little time compared to most, probably, but make a serious point of it to do whatever is needed; The most time-consuming part of it is the watering 'schedule' - Ideally, every other day, they'd get hit with the chosen WS fert - just a few minutes of it, 3-5, through each's Whizzer sprinkler, (SPRITZ watering) followed the next day by a 1-4 hour drench of spring water through the same setup to 'wash it all in', now that the plants are 'tooled up' with the fertilizer. It takes a good 24 hours for the fert to absorb into the plants. RaReLy does this schedule become reality; Sprinklers can plug up, they are 40 to hundreds of feet apart and each has a valve to be opened for its duration of watering. A good workout, butt that, and I, am getting older. 'Ornery' is more like it, lol. Re-configuring the watering system each year takes days. Labeling, anyone?
PS---The distance to the plant being watered varies as is stated due to if there is a problem, one must go that far to fix it.
A remote control for the pump, and I do have one that I will get more of (the ones I have are 'do or die' for something else and cannot be risked),
will next year be incorporated into the pump's arrangement. eg

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9/25/2025 12:26:34 AM

Nova Scotia

OK thanks Eric, yes 1007 came from a 700 lb.plus one he grew that originated from a 1988 Dill seed? Yet no idea which one. Best odds either 616 Dill or 575 Dill, we always kept records of seeds we sent to growers, so going to check sometime see what I may learn? Interesting just so many from the past.

9/25/2025 7:42:19 AM

Syracuse, NY

Cool, Danny, and you wanna hear the biggest FAIL in history?
One Growers' Convention at the Americana, in a room full of tables, I asked you if I could add to the latest belief that pumpkin seeds ending in the number '5' had something special about them as far as vigor, going heavy and so forth. You said 'Sure' or 'Yeah' or something and I went about telling all present that the 1140 Stelts WR was comprised of the 70...5 Stelts and was pollinated by the 43...5 Grindle, and 'Yeah, so, there, add THAT to your list of 'fivers'...'(LOL, just kidding on that comment);
I was so nervous that I didn't say the rest of it:
'What is 705 plus 435?'
...Yeah, I asked Mike Nepereny of the AGGC how many times that had happened in history and he said "Never".
Like I said, what a FAIL!
Anyway, here's the 1007 Brown Pumpkinfanatic link and you would not believe what seeds I still have, including the 1140.
Memory Lane or what???
Later---eric g
https://tools.pumpkinfanatic.com/PumpkinsSeedGenetics.php?PN=1007%20Brown%202000

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9/25/2025 7:23:03 PM

Nova Scotia

Oh ya the old number 5 theory forgot all about that. 575 DILL, 845 BOBIER, 935 LLOYD, ETC. Kind of a fun fact at the time. Good times back in Niagara conventions meet so many growers, tell stories, jokes, swap seeds. I'll always treasure the time Eddy Z bought the 846 CALAI in auction, then promptly walked over and presented it to Dad!!! Class Act. We never had a 846 seed.

9/26/2025 7:50:50 AM

Syracuse, NY

...he says...and I'm still in self-therapy about it, lol!
(They might call my number, 5, at the Deli one day and I'll throw my arms up, lol); Yeah, those in-house seed auctions, man, one of the many high points, AND the what, Saturday and Sunday morning seed shopping?! The tables were tur...well, there were tables,
lol---eg

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9/26/2025 4:48:38 PM

Nova Scotia

Hahaha all good many, many years. Sorry about "5". Yes the origins of seed auctions for clubs much needed revenue for their cause. The seed swapping, tables filled with seed packets. Oh the memories good times.

9/26/2025 5:17:46 PM

Syracuse, NY

(*_*)---eg

9/26/2025 5:27:29 PM