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Wednesday, July 17, 2024
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BlossomDown
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Gourd Zone, WA
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I got the vines set up on the 193 Sherwood to where everything prior to the gourd is dead ended. Everything past the gourd (8 or so secondaries) will be allowed to roam free for the rest of the summer.
I kinda took the opposite approach with the Brown bushel gourd... I terminated everything after the gourd and let everything before it keep growing. I thought this would give the gourd a growth spurt but it really hasnt.
I tried doing some controlled pollinations this evening (and to have backups just in case) and there's one really weird thing about these which is, the males would need to be brought inside at around 5 pm. I havent noticed any flower foraging insects, but I know with pumpkins, those buzzing polllen bugs get into the flowers as soon as they're open. In theory the same thing could happen with the bg's and it would then be an uncontrolled pollination. The females would have to be bagged or tied shut sometime during the afternoon. Its easy to see why bg x lg crosses have happened, its an easy thing to forget to do.
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