Re: Female Flowers/Fruit Dying
- Subject: Re: Female Flowers/Fruit Dying
- From: "Jordan Rivington" j*@gmail.com
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:42:17 -0400
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
Daily temps are around low 80s. Perhaps I will stop all fertilizing for a
few weeks.
Thanks
On 7/11/06, Glenn Peters <gpeters@ll.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> >Jordan: both the 20-20-20 and 10-52-10 contain Nitrogen, too much
> nitrogen
> >can cause fruit to abort, also what are you daily temps? temps above 90
> >degrees are also known to cause aborts.
>
>
> Glenn Peters
>
>
> >I had the first of the female flowers show up at least 3-4 weeks ago. Now
> my
> >main vine is 15' long and I see several female flowers at the end of
> several
> >vines. The problem is that so far, all female flowers have turned yellow
> and
> >dropped off. I was fertilizing (very dilute) 20-20-20 and have switched
> two
> >weeks ago to 10-52-10.
> >
> >Any suggestions? I am getting worried, because the fruit should be set
> very
> >soon.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Jordan Rivington
> >
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