| |
|
Entry Date
|
Nick Name
|
Location
|
|
Thursday, January 02, 2025
|
|
Little Ketchup
|
Grittyville, WA
|
 |
Entry 5 of 14 |
 |
|
|
|
Awhile back I grew two pumpkins on the same plant and I noticed a large difference in seed size. I attributed this to 1) the second pumpkin being set later in the year (hence a temperature difference) and 2) the second pumpkin sharing resources with another pumpkin for its whole existence whereas the first pumpkin did not have to share resources for most of its life (so maybe there were nutritional differences).
If you want to see my original post about it:
http://bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=342695
So that was interesting. But then this year I had a field pumpkin where two were set at the same time so that would eliminate most of the temperature difference (unless one got more sun than the other) and most of the nutritional difference. But I still suspected the seed sizes between the two pumpkins might be different. Why would the seed sizes be different? First, here are the seeds from two field pumpkins set at the same time on the same plant. Can you see that that ones on the right are larger? (I will theorize why in the next diary entry).
|
|
|
