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Re: winter squash rot

Pollinator@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 7/17/98 8:41:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, raven@sedona.net
> writes:
> 
> << i have planted some butternut and sweet delight winter squash and it is the
>  butternut, i believe, which gets rot at its end after the fruit has
>  developed only a little bit.  on some other butternut vines, there has been
>  complete shrivelling away as if from the ravages of the vine borer.  i have
>  lost every one of the butternust so far, altho, thankfully, the few sweet
>  delights i have are so far doing well.
>  anyone have any idea why the rot? >>
> 
>     If it is only developed a tiny bit, it is probably a pollination failure
> due to lack of pollenizers (source of compatible pollen) or pollinators
> (bees).  If no seeds are fertilized, you will get blossom drop, but if a few
> are fertilized, the fruit will begin development and stop. The rot is just an
> opportunistic fungus, a sort of scavanger, not the cause. Remember you need
> many bee visits for complete pollination.
> 
>    This would not apply if the vine is dying, this is more likely to be the
> borer.
> 
>    Pollinator@aol.com     Dave Green  Hemingway, SC  USA
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i had the same problem this last season, and i was told i didn`t use
fungicides...i never thought it could have been bees...
 I`m a new gardener, this is my first winter as a gardener. i live in
central florida.
 And i don`t even know what to grow...lol, everything i tried has died,
mainlt because i planted to late the heat got alot of it..
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