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Nashville, TN

My 625 Foss is holding steady on it's damaged stem. Believe it'll make it to the fair this weekend...

BUT - it has a deep green underside and bright orange topside. I estimate it's 30-35% Green (providing the green is solid underneith)

How much green will disqualify it as a 'kin?

8/28/2006 2:46:23 PM

Mastic Beach, New York

if it's not a all green,then it's a pumpkin

8/28/2006 3:09:54 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

It really depends on where you weigh it...under what rules..Some places are 90-100% Orange,salmon,cream or white for pumpkin. 100% for Green. Anything inbetween falls in to the other category.

8/28/2006 4:07:11 PM

ordinary,VA

Sounds alot like my 572 few years back.
PUMPKIN.
good luck Teach.

8/28/2006 4:38:07 PM

Buren Ameland,West Frisian Islands, Netherlands

I have a squash, which was true green, now soms small parts grey, some a bit white-ish. (% is difficult to see because of some parts with ripening cork-like cover.)
Is it still a squash now?

8/28/2006 6:22:36 PM

Somers, CT

I won biggest squash at the 4 town fair one year with my first 161 pumpkin. It was 25-50% green. It depends on the bylaws of the organization sponsoring the weigh-off. Pumpkins have a dominant gene that turns them orange and a recessive of green, the rest is nature. Nice squash or pumpkin, whatever it turns out to be.

8/28/2006 8:35:33 PM

Buffalo, MN ([email protected])

Teach, I wish you well and thanks for growing the seed two years in a row. Post a pic of you and the fruit at the fair.

Bill

8/28/2006 10:08:24 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Aug, 19...Indy State Fair....one fruit was 100% green and weighed with all the others...just depends on where you are weighing it. If you are asking bout GPC weigh-off...ask on GPC board and I am sure they will respond quickly...they always have b-4. Good luck and it sounds like a punkin to me..... Peace, Wayne

8/28/2006 11:34:21 PM

Nashville, TN

Hey Bill, That 625 Foss has been the most consistant and hardiest of all the GPs I've tried so so far... Granted, it's not been consistant in WHAT it produces - but blame that on the open pollination **grin**

The 150 Pecks (from the 625 Foss in 2005) have been trying to grow tons of white 'kins this year!

This will most likely be one of the primary varieties/strains that I grow/study for many years to come! Have to have at least ONE variety that I know will thrive and produce SOMETHING every season **grin**

8/29/2006 7:25:09 AM

if i remember right, the bottom of the pumpkin isn't included when you calculate the percentage of orange and green. someone correct me if i'm wrong.

8/29/2006 4:58:29 PM