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This topic has been popular for the last eight years so I am going to post it again as this is typically the time of year most growers are starting to look at what they may want to plant in the future.

There have been many great pumpkins grown and I am always interested to see which seed the grower themselves has the most confidence in.

This is your chance to tell other growers about your seeds. Let everyone know which seed of yours you like, the cross, and why. It can be proven or unproven the key part is that you have confidence in it.

As we know, the growers themselves know their plants the best so let us all know which one of your seeds is your pick.

11/2/2016 11:19:29 PM

Johnston, R.I.

I have a couple of mine I think are worth an effort.. First my 1223.5 was the best looking pumpkin to come out of my garden this year, ( 777 Young x 1000.5 Gansert + a horny bee ).. I was done polinating and reached for the bag to close it and a bee flew in, so I guess it is an open that I will grow next season.. Also I have my 1044( 1059 Vincent McGill x 811 Gerhardt ) that looks good on paper, and I was even faster than the average bee on this one..

11/7/2016 4:47:17 AM

New Zealand

I'm growing my 1614lb (1791 Holland x self) and my 1376lb (1947 Clementz x 1916 Barron). +14 percent and orange. They are looking good so far.

11/7/2016 4:17:08 PM

Deer Park WA

We are excited aboutour little 1405 (1965 Brandt x 2230 Wallace) 12% heavy. She put on over 500 pounds in September and still growing around 14 pounds a day when harvested for Baumans. It had over 300 seed however all but 45 were imature. We gave 26 of them to our PGVG club for auction and club promo packs. Hoping to get a seed or two from Cindy Tobecks almost reverse cross (2230 x 1625). awesome heavy genetics!

11/7/2016 11:21:15 PM

Upper Strasburg, PA

My 428* est will be special. It has a major weird factor, being a 546* Welty x 2230 Wallace. The 546* was an extremely aggressive plant and had no trouble setting fruit. The squash was pretty blocky, with a slight wheel shape and was uniform with no deep ribs or sag lines. It could have been a lot bigger with better care. Our well pump is broken, so I had to use city water and that expense really limited what I could do this year. That will be fixed before next season.

The background of the 546* is very unique- it's a cross between a 900* Lyons descendent and the 703* Smith. The 703* is a 3rd-generation self pollinated 935 Lloyd offspring. Very weird. :)

11/8/2016 2:33:37 AM

Austin MN

My 1153 will be an amazing seed. Hopefully the seed that grows the first 2000+ pounder in Minnesota!

It is a 1338 Martin selfed that was grown off of 400sqft pollinated on july 16th and icing on the cake it went 14% heavy. I was the fastest grower I have ever had and It didn't have buried vines even. Even though I was gonna have to pull this plant but I decided to keep it and it really took me for a surprise.

Had it been pollinated on time easily would have had another 25 days of growing! so 25 x 30 pound a day average it was doing is another 750 plus the 1016 it taped would have OTT at 1766 about and could have weighed 2013 about...should have would have but still a amazing seed IMO

if interested it will be in the best of Stillwater package this year :)

11/8/2016 1:37:07 PM

Colorado

My 1685.5 is 800 mcmullen x 2145 mcmullen. Its a remake of the 2145 mcmullen which is not to shabby of a seed.

11/9/2016 1:43:14 AM

That State Up North

Mmm, if I can manage to grow anything next year. That 428 looks real interesting. Impressed you got my old 546 to grow. The cross is (744 Welty x 703 Smith)
history on the 744 is actually only 25% 900.8
--794 LeGras(goes back to dill squash lines via 699)
744 --
--720.5 Welty (900.8 Lyons x 539 Stellpflug)
The 744 always produced very aggressive plants for me, and the 794 seed line had a history of always growing too fast and I couldn't keep them from splitting
What did the 2230 do for you?
--I just cleaned out a chest freezer full of old seeds, I should find someone who can do something with them...

I will plug my only fruit of the year
183 Welty '16 (1625 Gantner(clone grew1965) x 2109 Zywiec)
(the 2109 aborted all fruit, but so did most all plants in that growing patch, something wrong from the herbicide the farmer used 3 years ago in the field I rented) The 2109 fruit looked nice but all stopped at basketball size
So I know the clone genetics give the seed a good chance, and the 2109 has one of the best combinations of 2009 parentage out there. A lot of growers helped me get the genetics together to make that cross happen, thanks so much Lorelee

11/13/2016 7:43:02 AM

Cheshire Ma USA

1639Kruszyna16-f 2008 Neptune x 2145Mcmullen big x big and also from very different seed lines

11/13/2016 7:49:29 AM

Partlow,Va

DKrus, I would like to give your 1639 a go. Please send your address to bluffrunfarm@gmail.com so I can get some seeds. Thanks

11/13/2016 10:44:16 AM

Cheshire Ma USA

Dan Kruszyna
789 W Mountain Rd
Cheshire Ma 01225

11/13/2016 7:25:23 PM

Marion,IN

1739 Goodman(16) 422 ott,+13 heavy and orange. It is a selfed 1998.5 Jutras. Best and easiest plant I've ever had. The p-kin had 28 days of 30+ pounds growth. It was unbelievable. The p-kin had more in it. I did not push it very hard with fertilizers or H20. It was my only giant and I did not want to blow it up. I'll be growing this for sure in 2017. I would recommend either the 1998.5 or 1739 to anyone for big and orange.

11/15/2016 12:33:35 PM

(rocky) Bonney Lake Wa.

1341 Barker 16 +17%
1625 Gantner x 1317 Clementz

1186.5 Barker 16 +5%
687 Barker 15 (1495 Stelts x 2323 Meier) x 1625 Gantner

11/18/2016 7:49:27 AM

Whidbey Island

1069 Roof 2016 17% heavy
1676.5 Daletas x 1985 Miller

Not very big, but solid genetics.

Free seeds to anyone who asks. Send bubble to
PO Box 746 Coupeville, WA 98239

11/20/2016 10:09:06 PM

Alex, IN

One from 2015 and some from 2016...

1007.5 Hodge 2015 (2096 Meier X 1730.5 Werner)+9%

Pollinator grew my 2015 PB of 1124.5 (+8%) 2096 was an incredibly aggressive plant, had trouble getting a set. 1007.5 was set at 34 feet out on the main. Only one grown that I know of in 2016 by Joe Scherber and it grew a 410" fruit that a mouse took out, see link...
http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=267918

2016 Seeds
1336 Hodge 2016 (1338 Martin X 1124.5 Hodge) +13%
Huge, aggressive plant. Very smooth and orange fruit, pics will be in diary soon. Pollinator grew my 890, pollinator plant was well ahead of all others in patch, fruit stopped growth due to grower error and took second at the Indiana State Fair in early August.

1129 Hodge 2016 (1756 Howell/Jolivette X 1724 Steil) +6%
Good growing fruit, good shape and went over the chart. Pollinator grew my PB of 1418.5 that was big and white.

11/21/2016 5:17:07 PM

Partlow,Va

Thanks Dan

11/21/2016 8:51:53 PM

Winston Salem, NC

636 Craps '16 DMG 35% Heavy!!! (1692.8 McMullen 27% Heavy x (self&1392.5 Carlson/Petersen 26%)) Had a tiny soft spot that went 8 inches into the cavity. plenty of 1625 Gantner, 2009 Wallace, and some 991 Urena for good measure. Seed count wasn't huge but if you wanna go heavy to the chart this is all heavy x heavy x heavy, shoot me an email and bubble me.

12/5/2016 4:32:07 PM

Partlow,Va

Hello Dan. I've not received the seeds yet if they were mailed. Did you get my bubble in late November? Just checking I have a spot ready for em :)
bluffrunfarm@gmail.com

12/29/2016 10:06:22 AM

Princeville, IL

556 House uow 16 ( 823 House 15 x 1538 Jutras) Beautiful Orange and great shape. Lost half the plant in early Aug and rest in late Aug or would have been much bigger. 17 inches of rain and mid to upper 90's temperatures in Aug was too much for it.

12/29/2016 12:01:27 PM

Cheshire Ma USA

Hank I did get your bubble, I will be sending everyone's seeds out soon.

12/29/2016 9:36:16 PM

Cheshire Ma USA

Seeds were sent out on 1/6/17 sorry for the delay

1/7/2017 6:46:39 AM

aurora, IL

My 417 Chandler 16 12.4% heavy(Scarface),(504 chandler 15 x 438 chandler 15) was an awesome pumpkin. Even after the fruit started growing. It was growing non-uniformly and it looked like it would abort, but it kept on growing. Also, from Dap 25 onward the plant was under attack by SVBS really bad. The plant unfortunately died, I did harvest the pumpkin and brought it home. The stem had started to rot from the SVBS, but did not go into the flesh of the pumpkin. The color of Scarface was a creamish white color, but the front that was exposed to the western sun turned to mostly green with a little bit of orange. The wall thickness at the stem end was 7" thick and on the top. 4" on the bottom and 2" at the blossom end. This was a very interesting pumpkin! :)

1/7/2017 4:01:34 PM

Somerset,Ky

1,057 Van Hook 2016 (1,625.5 Gantner X 1,662 Debacco) the Gantner was 10 1/2 at the blossom flawless in fruit stopped due to stem issues the Debacco was flawless in side also bot were rocks. I will be growing a couple of these.

1,489 Van Hook 2016 (1,662 Debacco x 1,719 Daletas) The Debacco wa a long very heavy flawless fruit the Daletas was bright orange main fruit was damaged by a varmit weighed a small one went way heavy to. both should produce heavy and big fruit.

1/18/2017 12:16:45 PM