Greetings, fellow pumpkineers!
I'm a fourth year grower, and I have available free seeds from
some Atlantic Giants I have grown. While my fruit always
seems to be much smaller than I’d like J , each year I figure
out a little bit more of what I can do better. I have some nice
crosses below, so the genetic potential is there, if you know how
to grow a big one better than me.
All the “UOW” (UnOfficial Weight) fruit noted below were
weighed on a digital bathroom scale.
Here's what I've got...
194 Inzero 03 UOW- very orange pumpkin
223* Inzero 03 UOW- grass green squash
202 Inzero 02 UOW- orange pumpkin
280* Inzero 02- Brought to Oswego, grass green squash
194 Inzero 01 UOW orange pumpkin
128 Inzero 01 UOW very dark orange pumpkin
411* Inzero 00 -Won squash division at Oswego weighoff
285 Inzero 00 EST orange pumpkin
240 Inzero 99 UOW orange pumpkin
Background of these seeds:
194 Inzero 03 UOW
Really nice orange color, and beautiful shape. Pollinated 7/4.
Would've been bigger, but one lobe didn't grow due to incomplete
pollination. Plant died very prematurely due to powdery mildew
(my own fault for not spraying at all)- thus, I didn't have a big enough
plant to support a really big fruit.
544 Wilbers 02 x open (Note the 544 has 801 Stelts in it's family,
which accounts for the nice orange.)
223* Inzero 2003 UOW
Great grass green color.
Plant grew great but died very prematurely due to powdery mildew
(my own fault for not spraying at all)- thus, I didn't have a big enough
plant to support a really big fruit. Late pollination: 7/21, 5 lobe.
535* Wolf 99 x self, then left open.
Same family tree as 411* Inzero 00
5 lobe blossom. I was planning on giving this plant away, but it
was my second largest seedling, so I kept it. I pollinated it on
time, 7/9/02. This fruit was growing great, but then it really
slowed down on me. After a week or so of slowness, in early
August, I discovered why- the fruit had grown so much that it
pushed the main vine against my shade tent’s pole, putting a
not-so-nice kink right in the main vine which fed it. Straightening
it out, it made some crackling noises, so I’m sure the plumbing
was damaged inside. The seeds are unusually large.
--- 850.5 Hester 99 (f)
---194 Inzero 00 (f)---|
| --- 986.6 Ciliberto 00 (m)
202 Inzero 02 ---|
| ---
---547 Kournikakis 00 (m)---| 935 Lloyd 97
--- (x self)
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280* Inzero 2002 (* denotes "squash")
A really-green fruit. It was a perfect 5 lobe blossom.
Nice blocky shape.
This seedling was the most vigorous of the 6 plants I started with,
and grew the longest vine, and fast. It was notable that it threw an
awful lot of females, easily 25 or more of them throughout the
season. I even had two new ones open just a couple days before
the weighoff; this plant certainly wanted to go! The fruit grew
very quickly, getting up to 280 despite missing a whole month
of prime weather in July-Aug due to late pollination. It grew way,
way out on the main, perhaps 40 feet out. I didn’t want to terminate
the main until I had set a fruit, and that took until Aug. 12th.
Unusual summer heat aborted all earlier sets. Curiously, the fruit
was even green on the bottom side, with only a very small patch
of white in the middle. The plant was a pleasure to grow- vigorous
and prolific, with no problems.
---771* Stellpflug 01 (f)
280* Inzero 02 ---|
---open
[“open” could only be 771* Stellpflug 01, 194 Inzero 01, or 128 Inzero 01]
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A medium orange fruit. It was a 5 lobe blossom.
Nice symmetrical shape for carving.
The Ciliberto seedling was easily twice the size of all my other
3 plants, and grew the longest vine. The 850.5 double vined on
me, but I split the tip with a knife, and one half wound up
normal, which I continued to grow.
---850.5 Hester 99 (f)
194 Inzero 01 ---|
---983.6 Ciliberto 00 (m)
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128 Inzero 2001 UOW
An incredibly dark orange fruit- it was darker than all the normal-sized
field pumpkins we bought. Slightly pear shaped. 4 lobe blossom. I
was hoping for a green squash, as the 986 was selfed, but it threw this
amazingly orange fruit. Others that grew the 986 had orange results
too. The Ciliberto seedling was easily twice the size of all my others,
and the grew the longest vine. The 986* had much larger leaves than
the other 3 plants I had.
---986* Hester 00 (f)
128 Inzero 01 ---|
---983.6 Ciliberto 00 (m)
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411* Inzero 00 (* denotes "squash")
I wanted a really-green AG squash for Halloween, and I saw pix online
of Andy Wolf's 535* (squash) from 1999. Andy's seed proved true to
its parent, throwing the desired nice green fruit from flower to finish.
The 411 was a 5 lobed flower. It was a big green sphere (very
symmetrical) all season long, and it weighed an amazing 21% heavy to the
OTT chart. I won the squash division of the Oswego weighoff with it
last year. A photo is up on the www.bigpumpkins.com web site.
--- ---
411 Inzero 00* ---| 535 Wolf 99* ---| 815 Anderson 97
--- (x self) --- (x self)
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285 Inzero 00 EST
A light orange fruit. The 285 is a 4 lobed self-pollinated
417 Andrews 99. It started out really barrel shaped for a while
(until just over 200 lbs.), then the blossom end tapered as it
grew bigger (as seen on web site). Unusual protruding blossom end.
--- --- 560 Brooks 98
285 Inzero 00 EST ---| 417 Andrews 99 ---|
--- (x self) --- 720 Hester 98
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240 Inzero 99 UOW
A nice orange, nicely shaped, symmetric fruit with smooth skin,
just like its parent was.
Grown from the 771 Fortin seed, which won the Oswego weighoff in 98.
Medium orange, uniform color. This fruit was fast growing- 31 inches
in circumference at 10 days! 5 lobe flower, self-pollinated.
1999 was my first year growing, and this one plant grew 525 pounds
of pumpkins.
--- --- 935 Lloyd 97 (m)
240 Inzero 99 UOW ---| 771 Fortin 98 ---|
--- (x self) --- 621 Fortin 97 (f)
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A self addressed and stamped bubble pack envelope will do.
Send email for further details and my address.
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Rick Inzero
near Rochester, NY
rdi@rochester.rr.com
"That silly elf song is driving me crazy" -Santa, 1964