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Gary Woods

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Dec 12, 2009, 3:36:33 PM12/12/09
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So, I grew a couple hills of Kabocha squash from seeds from a Seed Saver's
Exchange member. Did reasonably well in a known cruddy part of the garden
and a dodgy year. I stored a half-dozen squashes on my plant table, now
not full, since it isn't spring, and the first one I cut open to gut and
roast had a lot of nice big seeds in, which I cleaned and dried.
Just now, I sliced open the biggest of the batch, perhaps 10 inches in
diameter. Nice thick flesh, but only a little pulp in the middle with NO
SEEDS! A few little vestigial seeds, but nothing like the earlier one.
I thought cucurbits wouldn't develop if pollinated. Have I got a "Capon"
squash?
Color me perplexed; not the first time, and surely not the last.


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

AndyS

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Dec 21, 2009, 7:12:37 AM12/21/09
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Andy comments:

Perhaps the bees were wearing condoms ????? ::>)))))))

Wildbilly

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Dec 21, 2009, 11:44:39 AM12/21/09
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In article
<6dd8ce80-669a-4633...@13g2000prl.googlegroups.com>,
AndyS <andys...@juno.com> wrote:

You seem to have misconscrewed the role of the bees in the pollination
of plants ;O)
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Gary Woods

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Dec 21, 2009, 4:15:32 PM12/21/09
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Wildbilly <wldbilly@without_a.net> wrote:

>You seem to have misconscrewed

I believe in Boston, that's misconscrod.

Actually, despite all the problems I have a good bee population around the
garden and environs.

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