Re: [Bulk] Re: Female Flowers/Fruit Dying
- Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: Female Flowers/Fruit Dying
- From: "Jordan Rivington" j*@gmail.com
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:35:47 -0400
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
Well, at this point, the female flowers have not even opened yet.
Thanks
On 7/11/06, Richard Plourde <rick23@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> There is also a possibility that the fruit was not pollinated. This
> happened to me a few times and everytime there was rain or
> accidental overhead irrigation that seemed to have washed away the
> pollen.
>
> Richard Plourde
>
> Le 06-07-11 ` 12:42, Jordan Rivington a icrit :
>
> > 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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