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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 3, 2013 16:15:25 GMT -5
Well today I started Naked Ned Kelly (An Ox Raymundo F/6).
I am not growing my beloved LI Naked Seeds this year as I don't want them to cross. Maybe I'll put some in very late as Halloween Pumpkins!
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Post by steev on Apr 3, 2013 19:24:12 GMT -5
Naked Ned Kelly? Aren't the rinds as hard as shovels?
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Post by raymondo on Apr 4, 2013 5:42:28 GMT -5
Glad to hear you're growing them Holly. For some reason, mine grew so slowly they only made fruit recently and first frost is a just few short weeks away. It's already quite cool at night so I doubt the fruit will mature.
I got two fruit types - an acorn shape with pale skin and an elongated shape with green and yellow markings. I'll post some pics.
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 4, 2013 15:51:46 GMT -5
Steve, I got this package from Ox, you know his labeling....
it says, Naked Seed F/6 Raymundo...we may be calling this one Ned Kelly.
So, Naked Ned Kelly?
I'm guessing this naked seed squash is "game as Ned Kelly?"
Armored shells? I dunno, Raymundo? Ox?
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Post by steev on Apr 4, 2013 18:07:14 GMT -5
Sorry, slightly esoteric cultural reference there. Ned Kelly made himself a "suit of armor" at least partly, I think, from shovels. Mick Jagger starred as "Ned Kelly" in a movie, back when he and I were young; before your time, to be sure.
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Post by rowan on Apr 4, 2013 18:32:00 GMT -5
I thought he made his armour from plough shares
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Post by steev on Apr 4, 2013 19:08:11 GMT -5
Could be; you being closer, you can probably see better than I.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Apr 4, 2013 19:58:32 GMT -5
My handwriting must have been worse than usual, those are F3 seed.
The fruits that ended up having true naked seeds also had this very thick hard shell. I suggested to Ray that Ned Kelly might be a cool name for them if this trait persisted. Its probably early to name something at F3, but I thought it was a cool name and honored the fact that it is an Australian-bred squash.
Ned Kelly's gang made their armor out of plowshares I believe.
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Post by rowan on Apr 4, 2013 21:44:24 GMT -5
Ned Kelly's gang made their armor out of plowshares I believe. Sorry Oxbow, I am going to be pedantic so please ignore this post  Here in Australia we have ploughs not plows so Ned must have made his armour out of plough shares. *Shakes head at the vagaries of the English language* ;D |
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Post by steev on Apr 4, 2013 22:37:42 GMT -5
So you're saying those are "pluffs", "ploos", "ploes", or "plaws"?
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Post by studenecmladosti on Apr 12, 2013 6:28:17 GMT -5
Hey my gardeners..
I come from Slovenia (Europe) and i saw your writting here about pumpkin/squash seeds...
I am farmer and I am producing seeds called '' Slovenska golica''...and have many of those seeds to offer to you. I have recently sent them also in USA in many locations and also to other countries..
If you have any questions about it,contact me...
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Post by cletus on Apr 26, 2013 16:25:12 GMT -5
So its not easy crossing the naked seeded with hulled varieties and getting naked seeded progeny then. I was reading about C. pepo Tatume's unusual heat/drought/borer tolerance and vigor, and I got to thinking it would be nice to have these qualities in a naked seeded kind. With enough crossing I assume its doable. I'd like to try it with Little Greenseed.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Apr 26, 2013 17:30:54 GMT -5
The main difficulty is having enough room to grow out enough F2's to find the fully naked seeded segregates. I grew out about 40 plants of Ray's F2 and got one plant that was naked seeded. That was a bit lower than the the predicted probability.
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Post by cletus on Apr 26, 2013 18:35:31 GMT -5
The F1 hulled x naked was crossed back to a naked to get that F2?
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Post by oxbowfarm on Apr 26, 2013 20:39:16 GMT -5
No, the F1 was selfed.
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