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Saturday, July 04, 2009
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pumpkin cholo
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Bloomington, IN
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I pollinated the first female blossom on the 1250 Kline this morning a quarter after seven. It was a nice egg shaped 4 lober about 14 feet out on the vine and was pollinated using one male flower off of the 1147 Shenoha, the ONLY flower to open on my A.G. pumpkins actually. It’s funny though, for the past several days each day I would pick multiple open flowers off of the 1250 and yet the day I might have needed them the most is the day I have none from that plant. And there is usually only one flower every other day on the 1147, so I got really lucky.
Cross is: 1250 Kline 2006 X 1147 Shenoha 2008
I was kind of hoping to make this cross anyway. The 1250 has zero 935 Lloyd, 845 or 723 Bobier, 898 Knauss, 1068 Wallace or any other common ancestors as many of today’s big seeds (with the exception of the 801 Stelts and 846 Calai), and has still managed to throw a few big pumpkins, while the 1147 has some of the best of those seeds in its backround. It also went 15.4% heavy and was quite a solid pumpkin as compared to the 1250 which I believe went 13% light and has had a history of being at a greater than normal risk of splitting. So while the 1147 does nothing for the 1250’s great color, I’m hoping it will straighten out some of the kinks in its genetics and (in my wildest dreams) produce a little hybrid vigor as a result of their unrelativeness. And I don’t know for certain, but I think I read somewhere that the mother is more responsible for its offspring’s color than the father, so hopefully it’s offspring will still have a nice orange tinge to it.
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