Re: pollination
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: pollination
- From: "* <r*@cyber-quest.com>
- Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 20:11:26 -0500
- References: <1939041145@bbs.cyber-quest.com>
pumpkins@mallorn.com wrote:
>
> Rocky,
> After my pumpkin has started to grow should I freeze any further male flowers
> and use their pollen in later years? I bet Chris wishes he had frozen some
> pollen from that 900 lber!
> just a rookie idea
> Patrick
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I may be fairly new to this also, but I am pretty sure that pollen will
not last more than a few hours off of the plant, once picked. But this
does bring up some interesting conversation on here. If they have sperm
banks, why not do some research and start pollen banks?... Put a
magazine in front of the plant for half an hour, leave the pollen, and
the rest will be taken care of by the technicians at the bank.. Maybe
cryogenics... I dunno... hehe
Rocky from Northeastern PA
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