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The Garden State

I am still relatively new to this sport but I know about the birds and bees and pollinating pumpkins. The problem that I am having on my 1124 Hester is that none of the male flowers grow any bigger than 2 inches and consequently they never bloom. Has any one ever seen this before and is there a way to get some pollen from these underachievers? By the way the female flowers seem fine and I have already set a couple of females ( using different pollen). I was thinking of spraying the males with Viagra!!!

7/18/2005 5:59:01 PM

Indiana

haha.....this happens in all species

I know of a lot of underachieving males and females, also know a lot of overachieving ones

I have seen this a few times. Always made me wonder if the plant was sterile, or what the deal was.

Tom

7/18/2005 6:48:46 PM

wisconsin rapids WI

I had this happen on the 235 wright last year I have a pic in my diare from last year of one of the males that just dryed up and fell of

7/18/2005 10:34:51 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

My 898 Knauss did that last year

7/19/2005 6:19:16 AM

C N Y

okay, do we think that a splash of high-phosphorous
water soluble drench will help? that's the first thing i would do, but not one with a high nitrogen content!

so, 55 gal. of Miracle-Gro and water at 1 TBSP. per gallon
would be what i would try, on one plant. i assume no liability unless you grow a thousand-plus! eric

7/22/2005 1:25:51 PM