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when the cross of a pumpkin is (seed) x (seed) + (seed),how is the plus seed incorporated into the act?

1/18/2003 6:03:10 AM

Bristol, ME ([email protected])

I believe it means two different pollinators for one Female
i.e the 854 was pollinated by both the 870 Powers and the 855 Kuhn.

1/18/2003 6:15:13 AM

Long Island,New York

Bill Stun-gun Clark is correct.For example, my 572 fruit from last year decided to open the female blossom on a day when I only had one male flower open on the 455. I wanted the 846 x 455 cross. I also felt that one male wasnt enough to get complete pollination on a Long Island summer day of 90plus degrees. I opted to get the pollination done with the one 455 bloom, and a couple 846 blooms instead of passing on the opportunity to pollinate the fruit, or risking a partial pollination, or going with a selfed pollination.After all, we're trying to grow a big pumpkin --not just creating a seed cross.Some of the seeds in that pumpkin are 846x455, and some are 846 x self. Its listed as 846x455+self.......hope that clears things up a bit....G

1/18/2003 9:22:34 AM

i kinda figured thats how it went but wanted to be sure about it..Stun-gun Clark..that man can get stuff done..from what i can see he's taking over his neihborhood with new pumpkin patches..

1/18/2003 10:12:49 AM

Caceres, Spain

Hey John, each future particular seed of that pumpkin with multiple pollinators, like the sample cousin Glen have written about, will have one mother seed and only one father seed, as far as they are the cross between one ovule and one pollen grain alone. You probably will have a indeterminate percentage of seed which the male 1 as father and the rest with the male 2 as father. Is impossible to know how many and which ones, of course.
Don

1/19/2003 2:12:57 AM