Re: Bees trapped in flowers, and soaking seeds?

Did you sand the edges on the seeds with an emery board  before you soaked?
Hubby does with the most precious and the few. It seems to ensure sprouting
if it's going to happen.
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From: SteveS012@aol.com <SteveS012@aol.com>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Monday, July 27, 1998 2:02 AM
Subject: Bees trapped in flowers, and soaking seeds?


>Well first, when I checked my first pumpkin hill yesterday, it had a couple
>male flowers open. And in them were a few dozen cucumber beetles. Here we
go
>again. I cut the flowers off and immediately plunged them in a strong Sevin
>solution. They swam around for 10 minutes and tried crawling out of the
bowl.
>THEY WILL NOT DIE!
>They are "Super cucumber beetles", a new hybrid beetle bred by all the
>gardeners who have used chemicals on them for years. WE ARE ALL SCREWED
NOW!
>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (AM I over-reacting? Just let me know)!
>Anyway, when I plunged the closed flowers in the solution, I heard buzzing,
>like a bee. Of course there was a bee in it, so I tried to let him (her)
out
>withough letting the beetles out, and without getting stung. She flew away.
>But the SAME THING happened with the second flower! Has anyone else had the
>weird occurance of bees getting trapped in the flowers when they close up
in
>the evening?!
>Also, I wanted to mention that I soaked my new 627 Hester seed overnight
>Friday night, then put it in a moist paper towel into a baggie until this
>afternoon.  The thing is, as of this (Sunday) afternoon it still hasn't
>sprouted. I was pretty sure that it should show some signs of sprouting by
>now. Shouldn't it?! When Beth Rado sent me some seeds, she soaked them
>oveernight and did the napkin and baggie thing, and when I got them the
next
>day, they had nice little roots coming out of them. SO of course I get all
>scared, because the whole deal I went through with the Brock 1006x941 seeds
>keeps haunting me. None of them sprouted. And I am REALLY nervous about the
>Hester seed, since now it would be my only real hope of growing anything
>really big, since it grows so fast, etc. So if anything happens to THIS
seed,
>I am going to need therapy.
>So do you think a seed should have spouted by Sunday, if it was soaked
>overnight Friday evening, and put in a moist paper towel Saturday? The
other
>thing is it got soaked for about 14-16 hours, is that too long?!
>
>
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