Re: Dead females
Matt
If the plants are not a decent size you may experience aborting fruit -
plants just not ready to take on that growing monster - if the plants are
bigger - main out 12-15 feet than it could be any number of things - I would
get a soil test if you are not able to get anything pollianted in that area.
Could be something way out of whack there - keep in mind that one area in
your garden can be drastically different soil test results from another area
only 50 feet away.
Glenn
-----Original Message-----
From: J. Matt Wickless <matt@wickless.com>
To: pumpkins@hort.net <pumpkins@hort.net>
Date: Monday, July 14, 2003 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Dead females
>Thanks for the input, Glenn. The squash issue had crossed my mind. I
>have only had two pumpkins successfully pollinate so far, and they are
>on the same plant, a 535 Wentzell. I have though had many abortions on
>several different plants of different varieties at different locations.
>Are there some known factors that cause mass abortions? The plants look
>great, and the soil ph is right at 7.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Matt
>
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