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Roy, Washington

While burying my vines yesterday I noticed something weird (at least to me) with the male flowers on my 1109.5 Taylor plant. From the top they look like ordinary male flowers but from underneath they look like females. The inside of the flowers are deformed. These weird flowers are all on the main vine. All of the male flowers within two feet of the crown are normal. Is this normal? I have pics in my diary –

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=138152

Thanks

7/12/2010 11:38:59 AM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

Ive never seen this before. Looks like a wierd mutation. Are you using plutonium fertilizer?

7/12/2010 1:27:57 PM

Pataskala,OH

I had one of those my first year. All the pumpkins were peanuts on it.

7/12/2010 1:57:46 PM

Roy, Washington

So, I guess I shouldn’t have used that glow-in-the-dark composted sludge from the nuke plant in my patch?

Seriously though, the only fertilizer I have used so far on my plants is a weekly foliar/drench of Alaska Fish Ferttilizer.

7/12/2010 5:01:32 PM

Pataskala,OH

It's mutated. It's nothing you did.

7/12/2010 5:05:47 PM

Rhode Island

many times we dont know the true genetic history of the seeds we plant.many times the grower of the seed does not know the true history either.
there has been a lot of tinkering with different growth additives, hormones and such over the years. its very possible what you have is the end result of that?
who knows ? if we had science degrees we could figure it out i guess.

7/13/2010 6:00:22 AM

Billerica,Massachusetts

had one of those as well

7/13/2010 11:28:39 AM