RE: AG THOUGHTS what else
- To: "'pumpkins@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: AG THOUGHTS what else
- From: B* M*
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:22:46 -0500
Richard and others:
Let's talk about fertilization for a moment.
My neighbor down the road and the guy who beat me at Spencerville Fair.
Just didn't have suitable male flowers when the time came. So he comes over
to my place and I'm not home. He looks out at my patch and being the least
intrusive he picks a number of male flowers from my plant which is closest
to the road. Note this is fine as we do share around here and entering each
others patches when no one is home is considered ok. Now you should have
seen his face about 3 weeks later when he told me what had happened , and I
told him that he picked the squash flowers. My only plant. Good laugh!
Now I had watermelons, squash, and pumpkins in close proximity. As it was
later in the morning the bees have been out transferring pollen between
flowers. Point here is that both male and female flowers should be covered
the night before to insure that we get the correct cross since the bees are
going to give us some genetic soup along the way.
I think most of us cover the female flowers at least after fertilization,
But:
Question or poll for the group. How many of us cover male flowers?
Bob.M.
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