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Eugene,OR

How will the offspring turn out if you cross a true green squash (say a 552 Sherwood) and an Atlantic Giant Pumpkin (say an 898 Knauss)?

4/5/2005 2:34:42 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

Flip a coin Russ, it could go either way.
I suppose with a Knauss though, odds might be a grey/white/green combo?

4/5/2005 3:03:11 PM

Indiana

most likely a GPC Pumpkin, but not a perdy one. Remote chance of 50/50 being true squash.

Tom

4/5/2005 3:42:57 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

It should be heavy as hell whatever it is!

4/5/2005 5:12:50 PM

Pocatello (cliffwarren@yahoo.com)

It's thought by some that the true green squash gene is
recessive. I have seen some pumpkins that should have been
true green squash come out bright orange or bright red, but
not the other way around.

4/5/2005 5:17:29 PM

Leamington, Ont.

I've sort of been wondering the same thing. Lets say I grow a pumpkin that could potentially throw just enough green to make it a squash..and it did, and I just happened to pollinate it with a squash. Would the pumpkin that threw mostly green have the recessive green allele? If so with the pollinator being a true green, both the egg and pollen would contain the recessive green allele.
Would it not throw green?

Savio

4/5/2005 9:10:48 PM

Pocatello (cliffwarren@yahoo.com)

There was a discussion a few years ago... that went something
like this:

Color genes

R - reddish orange gene
B - lighter orange-creme-pink, etc. gene
b - dark green gene

"b" is recessive, so a Bb would still be orange-creme-pink
R and B are co-dominant, we see a lot of these RB combos

Whenever you see one of those RR or Rb fruit, you know it.
They are the beautiful dark shiny orange, sometimes almost
red.

Anyway, of course there is LOTS to learn about this. As it
was presented, the model seems to fit what we see in AG
these days.

4/6/2005 10:29:23 AM

Southeast

How many true green squash pollinations to a seed line will yield squash from a pumpkin? What are the chances of a squash if for example you take the 898 Knauss and pollinte the line 3 times witha true greenie. Some of those squash genes are real heavy Im very interested in this subject.

4/11/2005 10:38:45 AM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Like 898 Knauss x 900 Lyons of the 900 goes green? Scary!

4/11/2005 8:55:35 PM