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Caceres, Spain

Hey friends, I've got a big bunch of emails afgter my post. Thank you very much for your interest, for your words and for your good wishes.
I want to say something: I never thought I would sell one seed. I have send hundreds like a present to new growers, and exchange a lot as well. I have the proud and satisfaction to have been the introducer of the giant pumpkins sport and seeds in Spain, after my trip to Vancouver and Seattle in 2002. Many of the Canadian, American, European and Australian seeds I've received from their growers have found ground in many spanish yards.
The moral subject is present for me as well, because I didn't pay anything for these seeds, but when I got them in exchange for mines, we didn't know they were to become so much looked for. The people who know me can be sure that I rather wourld send them for free and know that they will be planted than to make any money with them. But in my circunstances I have to be practical.
I appreciate a lot the growers who have written here or to me saying that they see well that I try to send their own seeds. Thank you very much, because I do not feel that the seeds are mine, I feel I was only keeping them and waiting for the best year to grow them with good soil and climate.

I am trying to answer to everybody with a personal email, but time is not easy to manage and 70 are a big number.
I am not sure how to proceed to sell them. Some growers adviced me to organize a bid, to put them in ebay. I don't know whether to put them in lots or one by one. For now I am thinking in put them one by one, in order to give more oportunities for growers to get the one they really like.
I tell you that people are very very interested, and at the end it can be funny to see what happen.
At this moment I have not take any offer yet for any of the seeds, so if I put them in ebay, I will write it here as soon as it happens.
Good luck

2/1/2009 10:37:44 AM

Caceres, Spain

Well, I`ve just made for the first time in my life an offer in ebay. I tried to put one seed in english ebay, but I had to wait for some days. So I did it in the spanish one.
The seed is the 1016 Daletas 2001 and the website where you can find it:

http://cgi.ebay.es/Giant-pumpkin-seed-semilla-calabaza-1016-Daletas-2001_W0QQitemZ130285212809QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_186?hash=item130285212809&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A895|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318

So the bid is open! If you want a huge deep orange pumpkin here it is.
More seeds, soon.

2/1/2009 2:43:04 PM

SE Minnesota

doing the conversion math for your bid, looks like over $30,000 in US dollars, hope it is a typo:)

2/1/2009 2:52:17 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

24 Euros is around $30.00

2/1/2009 4:02:59 PM

Knopp, Germany

Carlos, the world has just changed as you know it. I do not know what personal problems led to this, but i have a feeling you have not seen anything yet.

I hope all the best for you my friend.

owen

2/1/2009 4:25:21 PM

SE Minnesota

i see what I did, oops, 24 euros not 24,000:) the 24,00 threw me off

2/1/2009 4:34:37 PM

Caceres, Spain

Thank you, Owen.

2/2/2009 2:32:27 AM

Www.extremepumpkinstore.com

Carlos,
Maybe you can have a small auction here on BP.
I would be more then happy to help you.
I don't want anything in return.
tprivitera@optonline.net

2/2/2009 6:56:21 AM

i must of missed something? this auction if on bp would benefit what club tom

2/2/2009 7:57:21 AM

Www.extremepumpkinstore.com

Nope, you didnt miss anything Don, Carlos is a regular grower like us going through some hard times.

2/2/2009 8:03:35 AM

Team Munson

Question:
Did you buy the seeds in auction or get them directly from the growers?

I send seeds to growers to plant and hopefully grow a PB with the seeds. I do not send seeds to growers to obtain money, pet's, or personal gain of any kind. I have worked my back side off donating to clubs so they can generate funds to better educate their growers.

If you are having a bad time and want to stop growing then do the sport a favor and donate the seeds to help the whole. If a grower asks for their seeds back then send them the seeds.

I know we will never stop the sale of seeds on the "black market or E-bay" but if some one wants to invest in seeds for profit then let them buy them from a club first. This is why I will only send seeds to growers who are going to plant it the coming year. If this continues I might need consider that as well and only send seeds to the clubs.

2/2/2009 9:27:47 AM

nOVA sCOTIA

Thank You Dave. EBAY is not the place for genetics like these. Will the 1068 be returned?. Carl.

2/2/2009 10:08:07 AM

Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia

Honest to God, I hope I never find myself in Carlos position. Owen your post was very prophetic.

2/2/2009 10:31:36 AM

Darfield, British Columbia, Canada

I have to agree with Carl. If there is a request for the 1068 to be returned to it's growrs then it should be sent back. I think that if the growers of those seeds want them back or not then they should contact him and say "sell" or "don't sell". Just my two cents.

2/2/2009 10:53:36 AM

Knopp, Germany

Dave,

What is so special about your seeds?

owen

2/2/2009 1:47:18 PM

Knopp, Germany

The perfect storm has just begun.

2/2/2009 1:48:14 PM

nOVA sCOTIA

These are not just your average seeds. That 1068 Wallace could very easily grow this years WORLD RECORD. I just don't get a good feeling knowing it was sold on ebay to God knows who. Carl.

2/2/2009 1:56:22 PM

Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia

So could 100 other seeds. This isn't about genetics.

2/2/2009 2:13:17 PM

(rocky) Bonney Lake Wa.

I think A silent raffle would probably be just as good if not better way and may even make more in return. I agree with Tom That an auction silent or not would be benificial for you Carlos. I would be willing to help also..

2/2/2009 9:00:11 PM

nOVA sCOTIA

Hey Andy. Do you still think this isn't about genetics.

2/4/2009 4:20:46 PM