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Re: NO CLUES.....?

    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
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