Re: Bag It
- Subject: Re: Bag It
- From: K* &* C* M*
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:39:16 -0700
Steve
Last year i used nylons and it works quite nice. Just finding enough
nylons with that many pumpkins can be difficult. Try going around the
neighborhood asking for womens nylons and see the stares you get or
better buying them from Wal -Mart.
Ken
Turkeyman
Elk Grove, Ca
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:13:54 EDT SteveS012@aol.com writes:
>In a message dated 7/7/99 3:05:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>cmicha@chmc.org
>writes:
>
>> I'm trying something new this year for protecting flowers that I
>think will
>> work well. I expect to pollinate
>> my first one tomorrow and I've covered the flowers I expect to use
>on both
>> plants with my wifes old nylon
>> stockings. I used a knee high and also cut some lengths from some
>old
>> pantyhose that ran and tied knots
>> in one end. Stretch them out and spread them over the flower and
>them
>> gather the open end around the
>> stem. Those bristly hairs on the outside of the flower and on the
>stem
>grab
>> and hold the nylon quite well. It will let
>air and
>> light in but keep the little critters out. After pollinating I tie
>the
>> female blossom
>> shut with a short piece of twine. In a few days the flower dries
>up and
>> drops off. Then I re-use the twine.
>>
>> Chris Michalec
>> Covington, WA
>
>Are you serious?! I just thought up this SAME idea a few days ago!
>(And just
>posted about it a few minutes ago)! Wow, do we have a psychic
>connection or
>something?! Scary!!!! Ha ha!
>I would use a small strip of the nylon though for tying, since it
>seems
>gentler to the stem. Also, another benefit could be that nylon
>attracts
>static electricity. Some experiments showed that nylon used on tomato
>cages
>made the tomato plants more vigorous and healty then the ones tied
>with
>twine, because it attracted static electricity which went throughout
>the
>cage. Remember the "lightning" theory for Pumpkins? Ha ha!
>
>
>
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