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Re: More questions

At 09:20 AM 5/28/97 EDT, you wrote:
>2)  I got up this morning to find three gorgeous bright yellow flowers on
>two of our seven squash plants (they are HUGE).  Two of the flowers are
>on the same plant (yellow crookneck) and are a male and a female so we
>hand pollinated with a paintbrush (does it take much pollen?).  The other
>flower is all alone on a Mexican Squash plant and is a female.  What
>would happen if we pollinated it with the male pollen from the yellow
>crookneck squash?  Would it just not take?  Will it harm it?  Will we get
>a weird hybrid squash?  Can someone advise us--we hate to waste the
>bloom!!!

That depends on what species Mexican squash is. I've been unable to find
information on that cultivar. If it's _Cucurbita pepo_ then you'll get a
weird hybrid squash *next year*, but this year's fruit should look and taste
the same. If it's another species, then at worst you'll get no fertilization.

>3)  What do we do with the side runners off our squash plants?

I let 'em spread over to the gap in the trellis left by the dead cantaloupes.

>Stephanie Green
>symphony7@juno.com

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