Re: Cucumber and Melon Cross Pollination

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Call this a gardener's legend.  Cucumbers and melons CAN'T cross pollinate, and even if they COULD, you wouldn't see any change in the fruit.  Only if you saved seed and grew it the next year.  The fruit is all made up of the maternal tissue, only the embryo of the seed might be altered by cross pollination, and that would have to be within the species - cucumber with cucumber, melon with melon.  In short, just give the vines room enough to grow well and plant them any darn place you wish.

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From: "Bryan & Holli Ellis" <obxellis37@coastalnet.com>
To: "sqft gardeners" <sqft@listbot.com>
Subject: Cucumber and Melon Cross Pollination
Date: Fri, Mar 17, 2000, 6:41 AM

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I recently heard that if you plant your cukes and melons too close together they will cross pollinate and the result will be unedible mutations. Is this true and if so how far is the minimum distance. I plan on having them about 12' apart in seperate trenches. I am going to plant the long burpless cukes and small Muskmelons this year.
Thanks.
Bryan

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