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Squash Pollination (fwd)




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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 20:31:03 -0800
From: Olin Miller <millero@worldnet.att.net>
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
Subject: Squash Pollination

Last June I posted the following question on this list but never
received a reply so I'd like to try again.  can somebody help?  We 
won't be planting suash until about March 1 but it's time to begin 
hinking about it.

"For years, the Prolific Early Summer Crookneck squash has been very
"prolific".  But this year, the male blossoms came on and died before
the female blossoms developed, probably due to the large swings in
temperature from week to week.  Somebody, I think it was on this list, 
had mentioned collecting and saving the male blossoms until the females
developed.  Any advice on how to do this - preservation, refrigeration,
humidity, etc.  My other squash and melons seem to be doing okay but
I've resorted to hand pollination to compensate for the absent insect
pollinators - it's not only honey bees, the paper wasps which always had
a very significant presence also seem to be missing this year."

Olin Miller
USDA Zone 9b, Sunset 13
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