Re: Why hand pollinate?
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Why hand pollinate?
- From: "* R* <r*@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 14:05:23 PDT
Hand-pollination (from the same or another plant) does two things.
First, it allows you to control where the fruit will set on the plant,
providing you have more than one female that sets. The idea is to
select and pollinate a flower that is 10-15 feet out to get maximum
nutrients flowing into the pumpkin.
Second, hand-pollination will help your pumpkin-in-progress by
pollinating every potential seed in that pumpkin. Each developing seed
releases PGR - Plant Growth Regulator, which is a growth hormone. So
the more ovules that get pollinated, the more seeds you have growing and
the more of this hormone there will be and the bigger the resulting
pumpkin. Hand pollination, done correctly, is more thorough than those
cute, but inconsiderate little bees, who really don't care whether you
grow a large pumpkin or not.
In other words, you will get bigger pumpkins if you hand pollinate.
Thanks to Rick Noffke for explaining all of this so clearly in the past.
Beth
>I wonder about this myself. Seems nature certainly does as good a job
as I do.
>
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>>Subject: Why do you have to hand pollinate a pumpkin?
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