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Growing Kabochas - When to pick them?
On Jul 5, 1:17*pm, Dan Musicant ) wrote:
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 Dan. If you planted seed from a storebought kabocha type. It could be a cross with any other C. maxima, within a bees flight path. Unless the planter had a pure field, expect cross pollinated squash. There are a bout dozen different versions of kabocha. The Tetsukabuta is a special interspecies cross by Sakata. The process of making an interspecies cross is pretty complicated and patented. It requires modification of the pollen from one species to be accepted by the other. The result is considered to sterile, but I have not tried it. As far as I know that is the only one available in the US although Sakata has named several others. |
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