Re: can the plant cull its own?

It could be the heat. One of them grew to baseball size like it took and then just stopped. I was just wondering.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Thomas" <j.endlesstrail@gmail.com> 
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: can the plant cull its own?



I think it's more likely that the later pollinations didn't take at all -
maybe because it got hotter?

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:09 PM, dave perkins <dperk15@comcast.net> wrote:


I have a plant that i was able to pollinate 3 females in a 6 day period
(every
other day starting July 3rd). Since then the 1st one i pollinated has taken off ( 35" at day 10) the other 2 started well but shriveled up soon after. 
My
question is this, can/will a plant abort(cull) other females if one is
doing
really well?
 My thought was that the good one is taking all the energy away from the
other females since it is the 1st in line from the stump. BTW, i know 35"
at
10 days sounds impressive (27" at 10 days is on pace for 1200lbs according 
to
Altis/Laundry benchmarks) But i have a small plant and anything over 340
woulbe beat my best. Aint this hobby a blast?


                                     Dave

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Pumpkin-growing archives: http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PUMPKINS


---------------------------------------------------------------------
Pumpkin-growing archives: http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PUMPKINS


---------------------------------------------------------------------
Pumpkin-growing archives: http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PUMPKINS
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index