Re: Flowers

Steve,
Hate to tell you this, but it was Bhaskaran plant where I was having my most problems. From the very beginning, the male flowers on this plant died before they flowered. Later in the season, some finally opened and they did not have a stamen. The flowers would stay open for weeks before they would die.
It was cold early and then in the first week of July it really got hot in our area. August was a good month for growing here, but that is when two more of my plants had this male flower problem. This also happened to two other Rochester growers. We plan to get together after the pumpkin season and see if we did something which might have caused this problem. We all do things a little bit differently and all of us have soil tests, but maybe we all did something similar which caused the problem. 

I appreciate all the comments from you all on this male flower problem.

George Heyne
Rochester, MN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Haberman" <shaberman@insmgt.com> 
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 8:23 AM
Subject: Flowers



By the way folks:

The most prolific flowering vine I have is Bhaskaran stock from the
Rochester area.

I hope I am not just creating more mystery but "it is what it is."



Steve Haberman

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