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Hi Mike,
Sorry you didn't get much response elsewhere. My take on it is this:
Basically if we are talking about one or two year olds, the double summer would do them good if your primary function was growth. The koi would have to be of the highest quality as some decent koi can actually grow out of , or thru a beni pattern. My opinion on koi 3 or older is it is much safer to experience winter. Double winter I don't like the sound of unless your dealing with a fast maturing male and have size retrictions that you are trying to control: ie a koi to compete in a young fish show where finish and size dictate entrants.
The reason I feel justified in my answer on one and two year olds is most breeders in japan bring this crop into a greenhouse, maintain growing temps and continue feeding till spring. Which in my mind is a double growing season.
Well, I harvested all my tosai today with the exception of my chagoi,kigoi and ochiba. I am truely weary. Some of the asagi were6-6.5 inches in length along with some of the yamabuki longfins. There was one gin rin shiro there to die for. It was twice the koi the brother from two years ago
turned out to be. And that koi has taken second place in local shows against some pretty tough japanese competition. I got to sort about a dozen mixed kumonryu and matsukawabake nisai. saved two of each to grow on to 3 year old, they were that good. when I came home tonight my son asked me if I had been out fishing? I said "no,why?" He said I smelled like fish! (l0l)
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