Re: Re-pumpkin colours

Hi Barbra. As I understand it, even if the bees did bring you some strange foreign pollen, it would not show up until the next generation. I gather from what I have been told that the pollination THIS season does two things: 1) causes the baby pumpkin to grow, and 2) affects the genetics of the seeds from this pumpkin. So that if, for instance, your pumpkin got pollinated with zucchini pollen this year, your pumpkin this year would look pretty normal. But if you saved the seeds from this pumpkin, next year you might have an elongated and/or greenish squmpkin. Or so I understand. Maybe someone who has been at this longer can correct me if I'm wrong.

Patience


From: Phanteel@aol.com
Reply-To: pumpkins@hort.net
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Re-pumpkin colours
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:17:44 EDT

 The variety of pumpkin I am growing for Halloween is Howden.  Most of my
young pumpkins are a light green, with the exception of those three.   I
thought it kind of strange to have three odd coloured pumpkins.  I allowed
the bees to do the pollinating, that is why I thought it might be due to
cross pollinating with ???????.  Who knows were those bees have been :-p
Barbara

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