Re: Female flowers never opens
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Female flowers never opens
- From: r*@texas.net
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:03:04 -0400
- List-Archive: <http://www.mallorn.com/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
In <2b.864b2b5.26a89283@aol.com>, on 07/20/00
at 10:03 PM, COMPUTRESE@aol.com said:
>Bob:
>Sounds to me like water is getting into the female blooms some how,
>causing the young fruit to spoil before the flower opens.
>Are you overhead watering? If so, try watering at the soil level,
>being careful not to allow water to stand on your patch.
>You can protect the female blooms from water by covering them with an
> inverted box covered with foil during torrential rains or overhead
>watering.
>Barb Kincaid
For what its worth I'll throw in some info on this subject. As I have
not found a space big enough to grow AG I'm stuck with growing
"regular" pumpkins. Its more like trying to grow regular pumpkins.
I've been doing this for a few years now and I have the same problem
with the females never opening. I have this problem with various
varieties I credited it to the heat here in Texas. All the females I
had this year were not subject to overhead watering. Infact the
opposite is true. During the period when the vine was producing
females the weather was dry and during my watering cycles the areas
where the females were at never experienced overhead watering.
Chad
South Central Texas
Zone 9b
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