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Usa,pa,westsunbury

here are the seeds that i'm planting and i have no idea what i should do

1144 Hester F-846 Calai X M-1260 Weir

1370 Rose F-1260.4 X M-712 Kuhn

1432 Carlson F-1097 Beachy x Self

903.3 Powers F-1186.4 Whittier X M-877.8 Powers

721.5 vincent F-1458 Whittier X M-1172 Greer

692.5 Brunst sq F-756.8 Kennedy X Self

1086 Carlson sq F-552 Sherrwood X Self

531 Rahe F-307 Little X M-389 Wheeler

300 Caron F-846 Calai X M-1178 Revard
thanks for your help please send to jimbonyjones@aol.com

2/17/2005 5:43:30 PM

Cincinnati,OH

1144 x self (only 845 and 846 in this line)
1432 x self (only 723 and 845 in this line)
1370 x 1144 or reverse (pair up those 1260s)
531 x 1144 (add some more 1260 and 846 for orange)

2/17/2005 7:14:55 PM

White Bear Lake, Minnesota

Send a few to me and I'll plant them for you.

2/17/2005 9:50:58 PM

Puyallup, WA

No need to start panicking now!! You've got ten weeks before you even start germination!

2/17/2005 10:47:08 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Even the best laid plans can fall to waste. Many well planned crosses never materialize. Not every plant will cooperate with pollen on "the day" just because we planned for them to.

My vote:

Same a Ron but also 1086 Carlson x self (then send me a few please! LOL)

2/18/2005 7:02:18 AM

Utah

Jim...
I'd self them all... that way if you had one plant/pumpkin that was spectacular... Then you would have a spectacular x self. what more could you want ? ???
but What if you crossed you spectacular plant with a different one that you thought was good but turned out to be a dude ?
also ... no need to post the message 3 times ... people will see it.
good luck

2/18/2005 9:21:20 AM

Picton,ON (j.vincent@xplornet.ca)

Jim
I will likely cross my 721.5 with 1097 beachy for a double back cross to the 723. So if you cross with the 1432... hmmm...Lots of heavey pumpkins in that pedigree. Only problem is colour. The 1144 will likely give better colour so it depends on what your after.

2/18/2005 10:51:48 PM