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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] OT - Zuchinni pollenation
  • Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 09:43:46 -0400

Are they producing female flowers, or only males?

Are you growing only one variety of zucchini, or several?

Are your cucumbers a parthenocarpic strain, that doesn't need pollination?


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Caren Kirk wrote:

For two years in a row I basically have had zero zuchinni prtoduction.
I thought that last year I was potentially overcrowding them in my main
vegetable bed (however they had been happy there in the past), so this
year I gave them a whole separate bed. Despite an abundance of blossoms
they will not set fruit. So I am questioning if any pollenators are
visiting them.

Other vegetables are being pollenated at the same time (e.g. eggplant,
tomtaoes, cucumbers, beans) so there must be some pollenators around.
I've seen on the internet about hand-pollenating them but to be honest,
it seems like a lot of hard work in the middle of summer.

Does anyone have any experience with this problem?

Thanks,

Caren Kirk
St. Jerome QC





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