RE: no female flowers
- Subject: RE: no female flowers
- From: S* J* <c*@optonline.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:29:22 -0400
No females this late is probably too late but.....
I once over applied GA3 (gibberelic acid) which causes all maleness. The
counter treatment is to apply auxins such as the various thinning agents
used in orchards.
I'll pull the label tonight if no one else has remembered the name before
then.
Stephen Jepsen
CT GS&PGA Director Emeritus
GPC Executive Committee
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
Dave Squires
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:54 PM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Re: no female flowers
don wrote:
> on both of my vines I had no female flowers at all does anyone know
> why that would happen? and what I would have to do next year to fix
> that? both vines got about 15 feet lots of male flowers but not one
> female then the vines just gave up the ghost and died
> -------------------------------------------------
Geez, sorry to hear that. But it sounds like a water drainage issue or
something like that.
Perhaps they got waterlogged and that did them in?
I have never seen a plant NOT get female baby pumpkins on it after
growing to about an
8ft to 10ft vine. I have to keep pinching off females from side vines
almost every day at
the tips of the vines. I finally just pinched off the tips of all the
side vines to stop that growth.
I have 4 plants that have taken over nearly half the garden area of 40'
by 80'.
They are going like crazy. One has a pumpkin that looks to be in the
100lb range now
and growing fast.
I also have one butternut squash plant in the mix that I have pollinated
every female squash with AG males.
It ought to be interesting to see what those seeds produce next year.
Anybody want some of
those seeds to see what they produce as well? I expect to have about a
dozen butternut squash
with those seeds and plenty of seeds from them. I am hoping that I
either get an AG with even thicker
meat or a better tasting AG pumpkin, but who knows. Results could be
really weird, maybe a giant
butternut squash?
Cheers,
Dave
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