Fw: Bees trapped in flowers, and soaking seeds?
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- Subject: Fw: Bees trapped in flowers, and soaking seeds?
- From: "* <r*@kersur.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:51:01 -0700
-----Original Message-----
From: Administrator <IMCEAMS-SAUGOV_SAHEALTHME_POSTOFFICE@health.sa.gov.au>
To: Rusakovich <ruskos@kersur.net>
Date: Monday, July 27, 1998 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: Bees trapped in flowers, and soaking seeds?
Here I try again, My messages keep getting deleted by the administrator and
given back to me 2 days later. I'm going to forward this message back out
and try again.
PW
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.
-----Original Message-----
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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