RE: Pollen Count

Marv,
In reply to the number of pollen grains produced by a single male flower
the answer is...... All of them.  And to completely pollinate the 5 lobe
female the answer is..... The same.   This is getting silly.  If someone
wants to sit down with a high powered microscope and attempt to count
every grain of pollen produced by a male flower be my guest.  But the
answer is irrelevant to my needs.  I will use as many males as I have
available to pollinate any females I have.  I think the goal here is
just to make sure we pollinate to the maximum potential of the female
bloom.  Nature has is pretty well balanced from what I have observed and
I expect that one male is probably more than adequate to completely
pollinate the female bloom however many lobes it has.  If we hand
pollinate we are probably smearing layers of pollen on that never
actually come in contact with the lobes of the female bloom.  We could
probably maximize the pollination if we were able to spread a single
layer of pollen grains over the entire surface of the female lobes.  Its
way too much work for me.  I have vines to bury and tertiary vines to
remove.  Spraying to keep up with and shade cloths to set up.  Have fun
with the microscope.

Chris in Covington


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lubadub@aol.com [SMTP:Lubadub@aol.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, July 07, 1998 8:25 PM
> To:	pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject:	Pollen Count
> 
> There has been a lot of talk about pollination. I was wondering how
> many
> pollen particles a single male flower has and how many particles are
> required
> to completely pollinate say a five segment female blossom?
> 
> Marv in Altoona
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