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Jeff Thies wrote:

Billy wrote:
In article ,
Jeff Thies wrote:

I planted by seed this year and didn't do a good job of marking which
was which. What I thought were watermelon plants, clearly aren't. They
have leaves like cucumbers but seem to be in clusters, rather than
alternate. They also have stronger points on the leaves than cucumbers.

My hope is that I'm growing something other than just cukes! Not a
big deal as eventually I will know! It seems like there should be a
cucurbit taxonomy reference, but I can't find it.

Jeff

Seems like you bit off a big one.

The book you want is
Cucurbits (Crop Production Science in Horticulture) (Paperback)
~ D Decker-Walters (Author), R W Robinson (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Cucurbits-Crop...rticulture/dp/
0851991335

My library doesn't have it, and at $60, Amazon is out of stock.

http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ looks like it could be useful, but I'm
out of my league with it.


It is an odd thing isn't it, I couldn't figure it out either.

I suppose the thing to do, as David suggested is to better mark them.
Sharpie on peat pot was a bad idea, as was photographing the trays with
the seed envelopes adjacent. I suppose those plastic sticks and a
sharpie is the way to go.

With me, I usually make the same mistake until it ****es me off. I don't
recommend it as a tactic, but I seem to have a need to run into walls.

It is remarkable how similar the leaves are, and looking at pics
online is hopeless.

On another note, I just ran across this from UA:

http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/indexes/anrho.php

I mention that only as a resource that is extensive and readable. You
seem to collect those!

Jeff

Wow. No mention of organic. Otherwise it looks good for identifying
diseases. Lot of information, I just need to figure out how to use it.

It's bookmarked.
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