Why hasn't anyone bred a smaller goldfish?

I'm one of them obnoxious older grad students... going back to school because this little doggy has to jump through the hoops to get a bigger paycheck and more perks. I much prefer standing out in the field in some obscenely hot locale looking at product. Then again the size of the paycheck and the perks will make it worthwhile...eventually. The fact that the company is paying for it doesn't hurt either.

I'm been working with Cucumis melo (melons) for the past 5 years but I've stretched over into Squash/pumpkins, watermelons, cucumbers, tomatoes, beans, sweet corn, and lettuce for fun. Helped design a database or two in my spare time. I've also spent a couple years as a microbiologist, and a couple years as a statistician in the darker times right after my B.S.

How long have you been playing with goldies?

BTW I'll take that midnight Shub on your website off your hands for you.. Nice... And that solid black one....ooohhhh.... after I graduate... after I graduate.....
 
Thanks SchizotypalVamp!

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I'm into heirloom vegetables, I've got several strains of tomatoes, lettuce, peas and beans that are fairly well naturalized in my garden and just keep coming back year after year. Not into the new strain thing with fish or vegetables but someone's got to do it right? Last year I threw some moldy acorn squashes that didn't get picked in time into my bamboo grove and got an interesting reversion into a footballs shaped beast with light green and dark green stripes. Inside it was somewhat like a spahgetti squash.

I've kept fish most of my life and have had several bouts of goldfish. This current one is going on about 4 years. I go to the goldfish breeders social every year to talk fish for a weekend and hope to bring something new (but really old) back to work with.

The really black shubunkins are the host's of the socials fish. They are really old ~8 years and the commercial stocks have not been available for a while. I'm one the waiting list for the fish they hope to release in the spring. I'll be getting the new yellows to. Can't wait to have a tank of black, blue and yellow fish.

Best fishes
David
www.goldfishgarage.com
 
David,

Tomatoes, lettuce, peas and bean are all very good OP (open pollinated) crops. They work well in home gardens for saving seed.

The acorn squashes very commonly outcross as they have to have insect (usually bee) pollination. The species Cucurbita pepo is the same as zucchini, summer squash, and most pumpkins. From what you are describing I imagine it crossed with a zucchini. I've also run across the speghetti like flesh in pumpkins but the shape and color points me at zucchini.

The Squash/pumpkin/gourd family is very interesting. There are several species where an interspecific cross can be sucessful. This allows for genes to be transfered from one species to another.
 
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