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Saturday, October 10, 2015 Matt D. Connecticut

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Frerich’s Farm in Rhode Island

1662.0 DeBacco ’15 (F: 1916 Barron x 1676.5 Daletas)- 414” OTT
*Anthesis Treated*

I have been fortunate to have my last two pumpkins weighed go way over their estimates. I thought the odds were in my favor for these two seed lines and this is why I decided to breed them together in an attempt to keep the percent over estimation trait continuing to the next generation. However, I did not think that both pumpkins would go in the teens for percent over estimate so this was an added bonus. I can also add that having both pumpkins end-up within only a half pound of one another was another shocker.

Having this pumpkin go 13% heavy and the pollinator going 19% heavy is hopefully a sign of good things to come in the next generation. This pumpkin was greater than the top of the range weight on the Team-Pumpkin Enhanced OTT Chart. This indicates that this pumpkin (and the pollinator) is outside of the normal range (in a good way) of weights for their size. If you think the reverse cross is good, (just like me) you are in luck, as this is the cross of my previous pumpkin that I weighed at the Topsfield Fair. Luckily, my predictions for percent over estimates came true, but even I did not think the percents would be as high as they were.

With this pumpkin, my top 3 weights this year sum up to 4,733.5 pounds so I made it into the 4,500 pound club which I am very happy about.

***Including the weight to the tenths place is important as my last two pumpkins are very close in weight, but not exactly the same ;-)***
 



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