Re: Hiding flowers from insects
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- Subject: Re: Hiding flowers from insects
- From: R* J* N*
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:30:07 -0600
All: My strategy for all pumpkins that I care about the genetic makeup:
The evening before we romantically tie the male and female blossoms shut
with ordinary orange surveyor's tape (doubles as a good way to find them
also). Then in the AM we open them and make the cross. The we use small
cotton drawstring bags to cover the blossom for a day or so. There
pretty cheap and can be pulled up snug over the petiole.
Rick
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> From: res <res@colfax.com>
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Hiding flowers from insects
> Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 8:15 PM
>
> Bob, I cover only the female flower that I care about. I use a developed
> tendiril to tie it closed, same thing after pollination. I figure I
don't
> want the pollinaters to go away, I just don't want them in some flowers.
> Roger
>
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