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Monday, July 12, 2010
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pumpkin cholo
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Bloomington, IN
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The whole season the 1147 has produced only one male flower, and it was deformed with no pollen. All the other males have simply withered and died long before opening. At first I thought it was something I was doing wrong, like too much nitrogen, but then I saw this. The first female flowers were dead as soon as I found them, weird. The female flower in the prior photo was the first one not to do that, after that all the females have been fine.
I made a stupid mistake with the one in the prior photo, though. I have a lot of birds on my property and so to keep them from pecking at it I put a white wash clothe over it to hide it. Well one morning a few days before it would've opened there was a brief downpour, and even though I had a patio table over the flower, the cloth became heavy with moister and broke the petals off. Not using wash clothes again.
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