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  • From: Caren Kirk <quirky@videotron.ca>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] OT - Zuchinni pollenation
  • Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:50:13 -0400

Rivka and Ernest,

OK now I'm a bit better informed, I went to check the flowers and they're all male! How does that work? This is commercial seed I'm using!

Is there something that causes the plant only to set male flowers?

Feeling terribly zucchini-deprived but searching for recipes for blossoms,

Caren.

On 9/11/2011 2:36 PM, Ernest Plutko wrote:
Zucchini usually produce zucchinis with wild abandon. Are you using
a weird variety that just has male flowers? Are you cutting the
vines short leaving only male flowers?

---- Original Message ----
From: organic87@frontiernet.net
To: 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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