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Re: hand pollinating squash

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Andrea,

I wish I had that problem!  Right now it seems that all we have are male
flowers.  We did have one female but missed her opening!

I think that you did a good job using a closed male flower.  I don't see why
the pollen wouldn't still be viable!

Let us know how it goes.

Necia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrea" <andrea@gravitt.org>
To: <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 7:45 AM
Subject: hand pollinating squash


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> Yesterday morning my squash plant had two female flowers but no male
flowers
> open. On the off chance it might do something, I took a closed male flower
> from the day before and used the pollen from that on the open female
> flowers. It's too early to tell, really, but the fruit still look ok. They
> seem to be slightly larger, even, but that may just be wishful thinking.
>
> Is this May-December squash marriage gonna work?
>
> Andrea
>
>
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