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Pulaski Tn [email protected]

last year i grew 7 dill 575 plants..they had a real good buy sorta pale orange color to them...i save the seeds and planted them this year and one of them has 2 real orange pumpkins on it and 3 of them have the greenest pumpkins you have ever seen...now how can this happen??i havent had a squash in my patch for 2 years now...

8/27/2004 5:17:34 PM

Rhode Island

blk cloud

out of the 4 to 500 seeds in any given pumpkin not all have the same genes
you got some orange and some green because if you went back into the parentage of the 575 you would probably find some green squash
or------ if the female 575 was not bagged when the dills pollinated it then some pollen from a nearby green squash got carried over by the bees and showed up in the line two generations later

8/27/2004 6:52:35 PM

Colorado Hail, CO. Elev. 5,900 FT

What year was the Dill 575 seeds from?

8/27/2004 11:10:52 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

yea, 1988?

8/28/2004 12:17:46 AM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

i dont have any idea what year they are...i got them from mr. dill last year as a trade,and i didnt have any squash last year.. are you thinking 1988..would they send out seed that are that old??

8/28/2004 8:43:28 AM

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The Dills had a Pumpkin in 2002 which weighed 575. I would guess it would have been seeds from that pumpkin.
The cross is Female 723 Bobier X 955 Stelts
Eddy

8/28/2004 9:50:38 AM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Must be the same 575 Dills that I have http://www.bigpumpkins.com/msgboard/ViewThread.asp?b=19&p=84292.

What size did they grow to? Orange, Green, Yellow or whatever...

8/31/2004 12:28:55 AM