RE: Is One Male Enough?
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: RE: Is One Male Enough?
- From: T* P* M*
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:19:59 PDT
Yea, that doesn't sounds like evidence to me. I didn't even know that
more pollon led to more seeds. And I dind't know seeds made up that much of
the weight of a pumpkin. I also thought plants produced more seeds due to
stress and not to pollen
>From: Follansbee Bill - Pease <BFOLLANSBEE@lonzabiologics.com>
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: "'pumpkins@mallorn.com'" <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
>Subject: RE: Is One Male Enough?
>Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:23:39 -0400
>
>Here's a thought...
>
>If additional pollen leeds to more seeds...then...is it correct to
>think the outcome would be a heavier pumpkin ????
>
>Hummm ???
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Pumpkin Master [SMTP:thepumpkinmaster@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 6:12 PM
> > To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> > Subject: Re: Is One Male Enough?
> >
> > Really, you think that more pollon leads to more seeds, does anyone
>have
> >
> > any evidence to back this up?
> >
> >
> > >From: Mastonj@aol.com
> > >Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> > >To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> > >Subject: Re: Is One Male Enough?
> > >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:38:03 EDT
> > >
> > > I plan on using one flower per female segment and then one extra
>just
> >
> > >to
> > >make sure the female has enough seed. I also plan to wait 10 minutes
> > >between
> > >each male to give the female a chance to take in all the pollen before
>it
> > >gets rubbed off by the next male flower.
> > > I think one will give you a pollenation but I think you seed count
>at
> >
> > >the
> > >end of the season might be low.
> > > John "PumpkinHead"
> > >
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