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Does anyone know what the parents of these seeds are from the seed list on this site?
1.) 530 Gadberry 2000 (est)
2.) 410 Gadberry 2000 (est)

12/5/2002 7:55:56 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

think Gads said the 410 Gadberry was the first offspring he had from a 810 Dill 1999....Not sure of the other.

12/5/2002 8:41:44 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

yeah did a site search Gerry talks about the 530 as a cross from a 1016 Larue and a 1-ton Waterman...Don't know what that means...but he said the 1 ton waterman was a 1056 Zehr X 1006 greer...also has both crosses for the 410...site search on 530 Gadberry. Hope that helps!

12/5/2002 8:47:51 PM

Deer Park WA

Ok, the Gadberry 530# came from a 1016 LaRue Female crossed with the 1 ton Warerman cross (1056 Zehr X 1006 Greer) I am not sure of what the "1-ton" cross female weighed as Waterman didn't say on the seed package, but the pumpkin from the 1-ton cross on the main vine was over 300# in late July! Jack LaRue came over to see the 1-ton cross and was all impressed, and like a greedy idiot I threw a ton of fertilizer at it to get even more. Three days later it blew up.... The 530 was a beautiful shaped fruit with a pale orange color, the only draw back that it had was a very short stem, but the 1-ton cross pumpkin had a nice long stem. I have never tried to grow it's offspring but it certianly has big time genetics. Oh and BTW I grew it in a new patch area that was only 300 sqft. Give her a try and best wishes to all.

Gerry Gadberry

12/5/2002 9:31:13 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

1-ton Waterman aka "Thunderbelly". I got a couple for you traders.

12/5/2002 10:22:08 PM

Deer Park WA

Yes Thunderbelly, They are starting to get a little old so germination my be sketchy. Better plant them soon as I would hate to see them go to waste! My 80+ year old friend Robert Critchfield grew a "Thunderbelly" I gave him this last season and when I checked in on him in late August he had it up over 500 pounds. I was in the middle of moving so I didn't see how it turned out I will call him soon and see.

12/6/2002 12:13:04 AM

syracuse, ny

you might want to split the hairs a little further
on that 1-ton cross---if it matters to anyone, i believe
it was 1061 Zehr X 1006 Greer, or vice-versa.....
just for anyone with any genetic concerns about it---

12/7/2002 2:06:38 AM

Deer Park WA

Thanks pumpkinpal,
You are correct, look on the front page of Langevin's How to grow world class giant pumpkins-2book and at the bottem you will see a picture of them both!

12/7/2002 8:22:08 PM