On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:30:33 +0100, "David Hill"
wrote:

~"...My marrow has been producing some goods, but when they get to about 3
~inches long, they start going yellow and die...."
~
~They haven't been pollinated.
~

I have got the opposite problem, and I can't figure out how it
happened. I started off my butternut squashes far too early under
glass, and one of them took off like a rocket. The plant is now about
4' long and I've trained it up the wall with the cucumbers. The others
were a bit slower and so have gone outside as they're still reasonable
plants. I can't move the big one as it's just too big. Especially as
the silly thing has a squash on it, which is now 4" long and 2.5" wide
and to this day there have been *no* male flowers open on anything in
there except gherkins (which can't pollinate squashes).

It is showing no signs of shrivelling, as have the other two female
flowers that opened the same time.

Apart from having got a parthenogenic squash :-), anyone know if this
is common or what may have happened? I'm fascinated by it (and looking
forward to a very early squash indeed). Weird!


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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