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Upper Strasburg, PA

I pollinated a 1469 Checkon with a 259.5* Welty from 1997. The 259.5* is a 794* LeGras x 737* Stellpflug and it has no 900.8* Lyons in its ancestry. If you are interested in planting something without any 900.8* Lyons for the sake of preserving some genetic diversity or simply for the novelty, then consider planting my 211 est from 2010. I will plant at least one this year and I'm hoping to use it as a pollinator for a 252* Zaychowski to increase the odds of producing a squash in the next generation.

Send me an e-mail if you want some seeds.

Tom
tmpumpkins@gmail.com

3/7/2011 3:24:53 AM

Glosta

what did you grow on the 259.5* and what was the pollinator?

3/7/2011 4:00:27 AM

Corryton, TN

You got mail

3/7/2011 6:33:58 AM

Upper Strasburg, PA

The cross is 1469 Checkon x 259.5* Welty; the 259.5* was the pollinator. It was a freakishly aggressive plant. I started 6 seeds thinking maybe I'd be lucky enough to get 1 to grow, but they had a 100% germination rate at 13 years old. I planted 2 of them myself and sent the remaining 4 to Nic Welty. He used one to pollinate his 164 on the 1421.5 Stelts and one of those seeds is being grown in Australia right now. Of the two that I planted, the one that pollinated the 1469 was the best. It was a very aggressive, sturdy plant with normal flowers and no defects. My mom was watering it for me when I was not able to be at the house from late June through August. Unfortunately, her idea of watering was to point a lawn sprinkler directly at the burried main vine and completely saturate the soil, so the main vine rotted and I was unable to set a fruit on any of the salvaged secondary vines.

The 1469 was grown in a higher part of the patch with better drainage and some raspberries to help absorb excess water, so I was able to pollinate a pumpkin on it with some male flowers from the 259.5*

3/7/2011 2:53:44 PM