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Post by Alan on May 3, 2007 15:35:24 GMT -5
www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Oct01/DelicataSquash.bpf.htmlI found the above to be interesting reading. I myself am planing on segragating bush habbits from hybrid seed this year in winter squash varieties, I also plan on breeding bush habbits into some of my varieties to make them much more managable without loosing to much taste and hopefully size from the fruit.
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Post by downinmyback on May 3, 2007 20:37:40 GMT -5
Could you not stop the growth of the plant after it had reached its desired height but breaking the top of the plant out. I had a Better Boy that had the top broken out by accident and the plant grew busher instead of taller.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on May 3, 2007 21:58:46 GMT -5
pinching off a squash plant puts the energy into fruit production instead of vine production. But I think maybe Alan is looking at this from the standpoint of large scale market garden production instead of one of us in a family garden plot?? Am I right Alan??
Too much intensive labour trying to pinch back 1,000 plants....
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Post by Alan on May 6, 2007 18:53:12 GMT -5
exactly blue laced, it also takes a lot of room to produce any decent number worth of winter squash. I know there is a bush acorn that is OP, but what about Banana squash? What about Cheese Pumpkins? All that stuff? Heck I can't even find a local source for bush delicata and I can't orer it becuse I don't have a credit card, grrrr frustraiting!
-Alan
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