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Re: Pumpkin Pollination Question

At 08:33 AM 7/9/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Toni Office wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I hand pollinated my pumpkins and then remembered that I had two different
>> types planted?  Does it matter if I pollinated with different pollen?
>>
>        In spite of the deluge of contrary answers you may get, my relatively
>controlled tests show that the fruit develops the same no matter what
>pollen you use. As long as the pollen actually can fertilize the flower,
>the fruit develops according to the parent plant (female Flower).
>        I have several types of squash, peppers and tomatoes purposly
>intermixed and have hand-cross-pollenated among several types of squash.
>My butternuts look and taste like butternut, not Spagetti, my Yellow are
>still yellow, not zucchini and my Honeydew are not cantalopish. My
>Anheim are still milder than I like and my Habenero are too hot to use.
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Not contradicting what Bill said, the seeds will be affected. If you save
seeds, the plants *next year* will be hybrids, if they grow at all. If you
don't save seeds, you may disregard this message.

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