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Re: NO CLUES.....?

Pollinator@aol.com wrote:
> 
>     It's the stamens (the male organs) that produce the pollen. Cukes have
> both male and female blossoms; as Lisa says, the females have the tiny fruit
> (ovary) at the base of the flower.
> 
>     Lisa's method will work; only be sure to carry the pollen from a male
> flower on one plant, to a female on another plant. You might get an occasional
> success on the same plant, but cucurbits have minimal self fertility.
> 
> Dave Green       Hemingway, SC
> www.pollinator.com
> 
> In a message dated 7/25/98 4:33:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lisa@hafey.org
> writes:
> 
> << That process explained by everyone else works for cucumbers as well as
>  for squash, pumpkin, gourds, etc, in fact, everything that has both male
>  and female flowers.  I use the following method - take your male flower,
>  peel off all the petals, and rub the pistil (I guess that's what it is -
>  the bit with the pollen or whatever on it) and rub it on the
>  corresponding bits on the female flower.  The female is the one with the
>  ovary (ie. the baby cuke) under the flower.  This should work very well,
>  in fact it has done so here.  So go forth and pollinate!
> 
>  Lisa Hafey
> 
>  utah blaine wrote:
> 
>  > so nobody knows how to pollinate cuc's
>  > by hand if ya have a bee shortage..?
>  > and thats cucumers fer the sticklers out there
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
I am reading this and going to my garden and I`m looking at my summer
squash, Yes, my summer squash, I`m in central florida, if it will grow I
will plant it, anyway, i have male flowers , but my squash is growing
and the flower on the end of the baby squash has not openned yet , but
the veg is getting bigger, how do i pollinate it , if it is not open?
 As the days go by and I am waiting for the female to open the male
flowers wilt away, I do have new ones that bloom, but , the question is
when does the female open? and when do I get to pollinate?
 thanks,
 Chris
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