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Minnesota

Has anybody ever done a study on where the seed in the pumpkin was taken from, for instance, the seeds taken from the stem area (getting seeds out of pummpkin) usually produce larger heavier pumpkins, or top, bottom, sides, any theory's, tests done, just curious.

4/21/2009 8:17:59 AM

Midway, UT

I don't think anyone has ever done a study on this because from a genetics standpoint it shouldn't matter. The genes are determined from the parentage rather than the placement of the seed from within the pumpkin.

4/21/2009 11:23:05 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

They have pollinated the lobes and tracked it. Long time ago

4/21/2009 1:47:20 PM

Minnesota

I was just thinking, than if they are all the same in the pumpkin (Iknow they are) why do some seem to do better than the others, just the grower making the difference.

4/21/2009 1:49:09 PM

Just because I came from the same mother as my siblings...how come they are smarter?

4/21/2009 2:11:54 PM

Barrington Nh

After sitting through a genetics professor's talk last night, I had the same question. (I'm from a family of seven.)
All aren't created equal. The professor said, any seed could be the winning seed.
Soil and feeding have a lot to do with it.
Great subject.

4/21/2009 8:33:44 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

U.S., I agree...I am the not so smarter one, from the same mother and same father...brothers and sisters are way smartier than I!!! Richard, a long time ago, I read...that any one seed, or another (from the same pkn) is sorta a crap shoot!!! The dna combinations are endless!!! Any one, or the other could be a golden seed!!! Peace, Wayne

4/21/2009 10:48:36 PM

Midway, UT

I've had long talks with a heavy hitter on the genetics of the seeds in a pumpkin and his conclusion is that every seed has variations in genetics. That is why you seed different colored pumpkins from the same seed.

4/21/2009 11:50:56 PM