Re: fused stamens?
Randy don't worry about males.....when your ready, just give me some notice
and I will bring you over a few......wayne
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From: Hughes-Banderob <hughes.banderob@sympatico.ca>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 12:35 PM
Subject: fused stamens?
>I'm a bit worried about my Mackenzie 1010. It's about 10' now and has
>produced very few male flowers and each male flower has had the same
>peculiar mutation: each have had at least part of the stamen fused to
>the inside of a petal, making the flower mishapened.
>
>I hope that when the three female buds on the plant open (within a week
>or so) that 1) I actually have male flowers around, 2) that mishapened
>male flowers still produce decent pollen and 3) that the female lobes
>will be normal.
>
>Has anyone experienced anything like this before?
>
>Randy Banderob
>Millbrook, Ontario
>
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