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Monday, January 20, 2025
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Better methods are allowing us to select better genetics. It might be tempting to say that the better genetics are leading the way, that we are causing the gentics to improve. But it goes both ways, the better gentics helps identify better methods, and then the better methods helps identify better genetics. Its a dance, but neither is really leading the other. They are more like circling each other.
A breakout would occur when someone put together better genetics and better methods. We had this kind of a breakout with Willemijns long standing world record 2624.6... and now finally the genetics and methods have caught up to that, and we're probably ready for a new breakout, where the right combination of methods and genetics will again line up. The genetics and the methods are already out there, they just haven't lined up yet... 3k genetics just needs to land in the patch of someone with 3k growing methods and it will happen. Odds are low, but all things with low odds happen eventually. Progress is inevitable.
Could I obtain a seed with 3k potential (or do I already have one in my seed collection)? Yes.
Could I renovate my patch, my methods, my knowledge to the point that 3k would be possible? Id be happy with 2k, so why bother with trying for 3k? I guess as Mallory would say, "because its there...?" I'm in agreement with George Mallory. You could get all the same happiness from climbing a shorter mountain. There's no logical reason to try for the tallest mountain. You dont need Red Bull to sponsor you or whatever. Thats not even a factor... No amount of money or fame is worth all the pain. You just do it because its there.
Yes? No? Maybe? Well Mallory was a bit of a loose nut and in the end Hillary did things because simply because he could. To simply do what you are capable of, is a much less dreamy approach than Mallory's "because its there". His allure-based approach to climbing Mt. Everest was not totally successful.
What kind of person will grow the first 3k pumpkin? A Mallory or a Hillary?
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