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Re: Growing Kabochas - When to pick them?

by Dan Musicant (man@[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Jul 5, 2008 at 10:17 AM

I forgot to mention something concerning my problems getting early male
kabocha flowers. I developed a theory last summer that my kabochas were
refusing to turn out male flowers early (I believe I posted the problem
in this newsgroup a few years ago and people said it was not a problem
one would expect) because I had been in the habit of always planting
seeds from my own crops. I figured the plants were maybe (this is almost
hypothetical) trying in their own way to hold out for pollen from a
stand of squash other than my own in an attempt to escape the inbreeding
they had been subjected to for a few years.

Indulging this theory, I bought one decent sized kabocha from my local
market this last winter and dried the seeds from it and mixed them with
the others I planted early this March in hopes that at least the plants
from the store-bought kabocha would send out male flowers early. It
didn't seem to work.

Dan
 




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Growing Kabochas - When to pick them?
Dan Musicant (man@[EMAIL   2008-07-04 18:43:06 
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Pat Kiewicz <kiewicz@[  2008-07-05 06:52:35 
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Dan Musicant (man@[EMAIL   2008-07-05 10:05:59 
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Pat Kiewicz <kiewicz@[  2008-07-06 07:03:19 
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Dan Musicant (man@[EMAIL   2008-07-08 09:43:08 
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Pat Kiewicz <kiewicz@[  2008-07-09 06:20:15 
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Dan Musicant (man@[EMAIL   2008-07-09 10:22:30 
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Dan Musicant (man@[EMAIL   2008-07-05 10:17:26 
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"farmerdill@[EMAIL P  2008-07-08 12:57:02 
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Pat Kiewicz <kiewicz@[  2008-07-09 06:32:07 
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Dan Musicant (man@[EMAIL   2008-07-09 10:35:12 
Re: Growing Kabochas - When to pick them?
Pat Kiewicz <kiewicz@[  2008-07-10 06:18:46 
Re: Growing Kabochas - When to pick them?
Dan Musicant (man@[EMAIL   2008-07-10 17:34:25 
Re: Growing Kabochas - When to pick them?
Dan Musicant (man@[EMAIL   2008-07-10 01:44:17 
Re: Growing Kabochas - When to pick them?
Pat Kiewicz <kiewicz@[  2008-07-10 06:20:41 
Re: Growing Kabochas - When to pick them?
Dan Musicant (man@[EMAIL   2008-07-10 17:34:13 

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