Re: Confusion???
Ricardo
Are you hitting the 4 or 5 hour window that a successful pollination can
occur? Get out there before 9:00Am or earlier and pollinate with three male
flowers of a freshly opened female.
Heat can cause them not to take{over 90F}. Some pumpkin nuts {oops, expert
growers} put up little cold frames around the freshly pollinated blossom and
keep ice cubes around it for a the first day of pollination. I think a 30%
fail rate would be pretty normal.
Ray
Ricardo Lagman wrote:
> Ric here from California, First year grower,
>
> I have two plants and have one on each successfully growing. I am
> pollinating all other females but every single one has not taken except for
> the two. I wanted around 3 on each to grow 100+lbs. Does anyone know why?
>
> Ric
>
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