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Grandfield Oklahoma

When you cross polinate, does the pumpkin take on much of the charectoristics of the male plant?

Can you pollinate from other squash families to gain things like color, toughness, etc.

2/27/2005 2:41:46 PM

Commack, NY

you will only see the results in your cross pollination in the seeds........for instance, lets say you have an 801.5 stelts......a consistant orange producer.......and you crossed it with an 895 hester squash.......the resulting pumpkin would still be a bright orange, BUT, if you planted the seeds from that pumpkin the following year, those plants would take on the characteristics from your cross.

2/27/2005 5:48:12 PM

Norton, MA

Staying with the same example, the resulting fruit from your planted 801.5 X 895* will not neccessarilly have good color, be green, or be a blend of both. It could take it's traits from an ancestor of itself. It's very intersesting stuff. AleX Noel.

2/27/2005 6:50:53 PM

Norton, MA

Correction: interesting.

2/27/2005 7:07:50 PM

[email protected]

Correction: Frustrating...LOL

2/27/2005 7:40:43 PM

Norton, MA

lol!

2/28/2005 6:35:12 AM

Cincinnati,OH

AGs will cross with any other c.maxima.
Prizewinner x Ag and Big Max x AG have been done.

2/28/2005 3:23:19 PM

Dallas, Oregon

only the seed will be a combinate of both female and male,sharing genetic material equally.however dna strands of these seeds will not be exactly the same to some degree.

3/4/2005 11:29:26 PM

Montoursville, PA

OK guys and girls........if good to good may get better why are we not searching the world, for male pollen, from plants, that show some pathegon resistance?

For instance if you have one, of three plants, that seems, to show resistance, would that not be an ideal seed, to be used as a male polinator? My hunch is that if a local area or regional group did this natural resistance could be found and worked into a genetic line. My thinking is that the next five hundred pounds will be found, by discovering, success, in this area, to a healthier stronger plant.

My ponderings take me further into wondering if the total result would support a more healthy biological condition, within the patch, that would play well, to deliver the weights, on up towards, a full ton American Giant. I still can not believe that more and stronger plant and soil continued using harsh chemistry attack can remain sustainable, in the long term picture.

3/5/2005 9:10:44 AM