RE: When needed the most.
- To: "'pumpkins@mallorn.com'" <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: RE: When needed the most.
- From: "* G* L* <G*@PSS.Boeing.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:37:13 -0700
ZOOman-
I'm afraid that we are all just as cluless as you are on the subject.
Where's Duncan and his pals !
Try your neighborhood botanist professor type. Investigate on the
internet. Maybe even a book out of the library. Other than that I
suggest you blaze the trail for the rest of us.
ok ok - work is slow today so i did some digging around myself :
I have found some internet sites - but they are not much help. The best
I can figure is that the pollen is only good for 1 day max- and more
like 1/2 a day.
I surfed around and found a bunch of University sites with email
addresses of some Profs. I sent out 4-5 emails to the ones I found.
Hopefull I will start getting some replies soon. The ball is rolling
... i just got one, not much help- now here it is:
Boy, you really have some good questions, but I really am not the person
to
answer them as I do not know much of anything about growing pumpkins. I
am
sending your e-mail to another person here at the Illinois Natural
History
who grows a lot of gourds, which are related to pumpkins. Perhaps he
might
have a few pointers for you.
Ken
-=-==-=-=-=-=-
Kenneth R. Robertson,
Plant Systematist
Center for Biodiversity
Illinois Natural History Survey
607 E. Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217 244-2171 (voice); 217 333-4949 (Fax)
e-mail: krrobert@uiuc.edu
homepage: http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~kenr/my_home.html
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/~experts/
email questions to : mersino@hawaii.edu
note i sent him your questions already.
from:
http://extension-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/vegetables/squash.ht
ml
and http://extension-horticulture.tamu.edu/tamuhort.html
5. Q. Why won't my squash set fruit -- they bloom and the blooms fall
off?
A. Squash have male and female blossoms on the same plant
(monoecious). The male blossom is
borne on a slender stalk. The female blossom has the swollen
embryonic fruit attached at its base.
The blossoms of both sexes are open and fertile only during
the morning hours of one day. During
this time pollen must be transferred by bees or by a person
using an artists paint brush or Q-Tip, the
female blossom will close without being fertilized, the squash
will not enlarge and in a few days it will
drop from the plant to the ground. The male blossom may open a
second day, but the pollen will no
longer be fertile and the blossom will close, wilt and drop
from the plant that day or the next. There
are many more male blossoms than female blossoms on a squash
plant. There may be 3 to 4 male
blossoms opening for several days to a week before the first
female blossoms open.
From: http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/nebfacts/nf91-50.htm
AND http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/
Squash and pumpkin also require bee pollination and the appearance of
male and female flowers occurs in response to day length, similar to the
other cucurbits.
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>
> From: Mills, Joe[SMTP:MillsJ@doaks.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 12:54 PM
> To: 'pumpkins@mallorn.com'
> Subject: When needed the most.
>
> Pumpkinheads,
>
> I'm feelin let down here. I need some advice and soon on the pollen
> questions I posted to the list. Not a single response when I need you
> the most.
>
> ZOO
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