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Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

OK here's a newbie question. I hand pollinated a female today with male donors from different plants. One male was from the same plant so had I stopped there & clipped it would have been "selfed". The other flower though was a from a different plant entirely. Since Bee's got into it before I even finished, I will now call it an open pollination. But what would it have been if I had remembered to bring a clip & used it? I'm thinking it would still have been called an open. Is that correct?

Steve

7/17/2003 10:36:13 PM

Key West, FL

It would just have multiple pollinators, now if you were careful (say it has 6 lobes)you could use 1 male on 3 lobes and the other on the other 3 lobes and mark the seeds from which section it came from when you opened the pumpkin up and then you would have an idea what the male might be for that seed but it wouldnt be 100% but its better than the crap shoot it would have been. So say if someone grew a 1500 pounder from that seed you would be able to track which section it was from and probably figure out the male.

Just something to think about that I found kinda interesting.

7/18/2003 1:34:39 AM

Deer Park, WI

Ben is correct in that you would have listed it as multiple pollinators. But since the bees got into it, it becomes an open pollination. However, Im not convinced that you can distinguish separate lobes with separate males. Logic tells me that pollinating a specific lobe will correspond to seeds in that general area (top left, bottom right, etc) however there is no way to prove this, unless you have some sort of white/tan method of distinguishing seeds.

7/18/2003 8:45:58 AM

Key West, FL

Maybe I was wrong, thats what I thought I read, about growers keeping track of seperate segments when they collected the seeds.

7/18/2003 3:14:01 PM