Re: no female flowers

I went out there every day and carefully checked each and every flower not one flower I don't know if it was something I did or just the crazy weather we had here this year 
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Squires" <djsquires@ultraplix.com> 
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:53 AM
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 
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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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