Re: can the plant cull its own?
- Subject: Re: can the plant cull its own?
- From: d*@comcast.net
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:58:23 +0000 (UTC)
Didnt know they could get that big without even being pollinated. Explains alot. I am hoping my good one is past any abort stage. It is getting bigger by the day (day 13) and is alot bigger than basketball size.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Thomas <j.endlesstrail@gmail.com>
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Sent: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:18:39 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: can the plant cull its own?
They can grow to baseball size without being pollinated at all.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:42 AM, dave perkins wrote:
> 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:
> 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
>> 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
>>>
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