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Growing Kabochas - When to pick them?
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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