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- From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sources Nicklow's Delight?
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 07:50:46 -0600
I'm pretty sure Nicklow's Delight was a hybrid, meaning that
the effort to save the variety involves trying to derive each of the parents
from the offspring seed, which is pretty dubious. Perhaps they had seed of the
parents to work with, but one or both batches of seed were bad. I hope they were
at least able to save some sound seed to use for breeding purposes. Nicklow's
Delight had the strongest resistance to Black Rot disease of any butternut
squash I ever had in trial.
Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist - Food
Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html
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Re: [Market-farming] sources Nicklow's Delight?,
road's end farm, 03/08/2005
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- Re: [Market-farming] sources Nicklow's Delight?, Bill Shoemaker, 03/09/2005
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