Re: no female flowers

 Interesting.  I did the crosses because the butternut plant had no male
flowers with
several females already blooming.  So I just pollinated with AG males.  
They are
doing just great, about a dozen or so now.   This morning I put AG pollen
on a
cucumber female flower.  Probably nothing will happen with that, but what
the heck.

Once male butternut flowers finally appeared I pollinated one AG female
with male
butternut pollen just for kicks.  As I understand it usually the female
genes dominate
the cross, so we shall see what the difference is next year.

I am  not a big fan of spaghetti squash, but banana squash is good.  Some
AGs seem
to already be crosses with banana squash as the skin has the same color.

Cheers,
Dave

Steve Haberman wrote:

  Have crossed butternut and AG with the same theory. I got small (12lb)
  almost solid (no edible flesh), tan to yellow gourds. The best freak cross I
  have had yet is Jumbo Pink Banana x Spaghetti Squash. Rather interesting. 
  Steve Haberman
  
  -----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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