Re: Pollen Count
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Pollen Count
- From: A* &* S* E* <e*@magma.ca>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:17:10 -0400 (EDT)
Brian-after the first open male the plants average 9 days to the first open
female.
This is mother nature's way of ensuring the bees are in the habit of tending
the plant when the first female is ready.Pretty clever hey??-------Al Eaton
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At 11:17 09/07/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Maybe it is just me and my inexperience at this, but last night after
>reading much of the pollinating techniques and process's, I ventured out to
>the garden to take a look at the monster plants I have growing there.
>
>I noticed a LOT of flowers and upon close examination they appear to me as
>all being Male flowers. I looked everywhere but I could not find any Female
>flowers. This means that either my plants are homosexual, or I don't
>understand the difference very well between the Male and Female buds.
>
>Is this single sex fluke possible?!?
>
>Brian Nahodil
>Northern Virginia
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