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i have read diaries and such saying if not all the lobes on a pumpkin are pollinated than it will be sunken in the area where that lobe was not pollinated correctly and the wall will be thinner. is this true? i really hope this is not an amateur question and i look like a fool. :)

Tim

3/2/2008 11:20:49 PM

Eugene,OR

I don't think that anyone REALLY knows the answer to this question...so it is not an amateur question. I think that a lot of growers believe that this may be the case, as it is one way to explain a lop-sided pumpkin. But I doubt that anyone has any real facts to back this up. I think that it kind of makes sense.

3/3/2008 12:09:47 AM

Nikiski, Alaska 99635

No foolish questions in this business for sure. I am sure there are growers out there who have some information on this subject after cutting into pumpkins that resembled what you have described Tim.

3/3/2008 12:35:48 AM

Netherlands

Tim, this does tend to happen if a particular lobe is misformed. I'm not sure about your question though, as I don't know why one of the lobes wouldn't have been pollinated and the others have been.

3/3/2008 1:40:26 AM

just a thought here, but some pumpkins that have been for-sure pollinated by the best growers ever still have
turned-out lopsided...there are also fruits that have had
NO seeds in them and have been in great shape as well.
so i think or feel, or assume, more like it, lol, that
in general it is the internal natural design of the fruit itself that is evident in lop-sided fruit.
if there IS any evidence supporting the lobe-didn't-get-any-pollen-that-day belief, it'll be neat-o to hear of it.

3/3/2008 2:25:16 AM

Minnesota([email protected])

Very good points Eric.

3/3/2008 1:59:31 PM