RE: FEW SEEDS IN PUMPKINS
Alun,
You have me a little confused, when I took chemistry K was the symbol for
potassium. Phosphorous was represented by the letter P. Your message keeps
giving us the letter K and the fertilizer proportion numbers for potassium
and you keep saying phosphate. Can you clear this up? Do you mean
phosphorous or potassium? Fert #'s represent N-P-K like the common
15-30-15. I'm not trying to give you a hard time, just want to help clear
things up.
Chris Michalec
Covington, WA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alun Jones [SMTP:Alun_Jones@excite.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 5:01 PM
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: FEW SEEDS IN PUMPKINS
>
> Yo All,
> Just read an article in a booklet about seeds in fruit. One of the
> main reasons that the fruit has not produced good seed besides poor
> pollination is down to lack of phosphate in the ground. Plants need
> phosphate (K) for roots and cell building. Trees need less K when thet
> have
> grown as they only need it in fresh (that years) growth so can use what
> they
> already have. Annuals which are new growth all year need a lot more.They
> therefore need a lot more K . If there is not enough then the fruit itself
> will be week and seed tends to be sterile and not form (fill out). Now we
> all know how fast a pumpkin vine can grow so my guess is that we need more
> K
> when setting fruit. Also when the fruit is growing, K is needed to keep
> the
> cell building strong and healthy. Maybe the lack of K is one reason for
> fruit splitting.
> When I grew my personal best I used 11-0-33 after fruit
> set.
> This fruit never had a lot of good seed.Maybe if I had used 11-22-33
> instead
> the seed may all have formed.I dont know, just my few cents worth. Any
> comments welcome. What you think Larry?
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> ALUN
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