Re: Pumpkin Pollination

John,
I think I got the mesage, I have had about four fruit larger than basket
ball size but I havn't liked the position they were growing in and have been
wanting to get some started in better locations while keeping them on in
case. I am confident in one good location but the other has stopped growing
and I am about to write it off.
Sounds like you are having a bad run of hot weather, I wouldn't water every
day, let the air get to the roots, perhaps every second day with a light
surface sprinkle in the afternoon like you are doing to reduce heat affects.

Stewart ACT Aust
sdeans@pcug.org.au
-----Original Message-----
From: John McKinney <oliverm@wantree.com.au>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Wednesday, 7 January 1998 19:30
Subject: Re: Pumpkin Pollination


>Sounds more than reasonable - if I had some to cut off I would leave
>them till basketball size. So far, all female flowers have definitely
>not pollinated as they have been dropping off and becoming shivelled
>within a day or two of opening and not progressing past golf ball
>status. There is one that would be about the size of a grapefruit and
>grwoing pretty fast so fingers crossed on that one.
>My plants have had a bit of a hard time in the past week or so. Over
>Xmas/New Year and the last week, I kept going away for a couple of
>days at a time and was unable to look after the patch properly.
>Some of the leaves developed a fungal infection of some sort, while
>the rest of the plant has been hit by a combination of salt & wind
>stress, heat stress and a possible lack of nutrients. Two days ago, I
>pruned the worst affected leaves off and have stepped up my
>fertilizing & fungicide programs, and at the moment am watering deeply
>in the morning and also lightly once or twice in the arvo. Yesterday
>was 41.5 C (106.7F) with today 42C (107.6F) The night time temps have
>also been very warm (about 22C 71F) so the plant is not having a very
>happy holiday. Forecast for tomorrow is a cool change (29C 84.2F) and
>warming up for a hot weekend in the high thirties.
>oh well I'm enjoying the weather even if the garden isn't.
>john
>
>Lubadub wrote:
>>
>> George is correct. You won't know whether or not the female pumpkins have
been
>> properly pollinated until they get to be about basketball size. So don't
go
>> cutting off too many as you cannot be certain they have been properly
>> pollinated and won't just drop off on their own later.
>>
>> Marv in Altoona PA
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