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Ont (jjb22hornet@hotmail.com)

Hey
I was wodering if you can ever be 100% sure that your squash seed is going to go green even before you plant the seed.
What seeds give you a 100% chance of going green?
I am asking this question because I am not sure how long these squash have been around or how they were dveloped. They resembol an AG very closely other then colour.

1/11/2009 11:13:33 PM

Picton,ON (j.vincent@xplornet.ca)

Squash are Atlantic Giants. The green gene is recessive and has been purified over the years by successive inbreeding. Usually crossing a pumpkin into a squash line, results in a pumpkin being produced from the resulting seed. Many of the popular squash lines today are purified enough that they almost always throw green. If you grow one of the seeds from a squash crossed with a pumpkin, you stand a pretty good chance of getting a pumpkin.

1/11/2009 11:28:02 PM