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Waterville, Ohio

After browsing through handyhomegrowns diary and expietencing my own issues with thin walls on culls, it got me wondering, do thin walls on very young fruit tell weather another pumpkin on the same plant will go light or have potential for splitting? Is there potential for pumpkins to develop thick walls regardless of what they look like early on in there growth? Curious to see what everyone thinks.

7/21/2013 10:43:51 PM

Central NY

I say......maybe

7/21/2013 11:29:50 PM

Muddy Waters

Yes sounds good to me.I talked to 2 HHitters that didnt think so.They thought it was a development thing.I really think its set in motion in the first 30days.So i have been using the potassium silicates & making sure my boron is right to delver the calcium in my soil over 4000 is my reading on calcium.So yes what theory's or facts are out there??

7/22/2013 5:26:32 AM

Nova Scotia

I have been experimenting with some of my growth spray formulas and have found a correlation between blossom stamina size and seed cavity size, small stamina in relation to fruit at blossom, gives extra thick walls and extra small seed cavity

7/22/2013 4:32:15 PM

BC, Canada

Mr T
Trying to understand what you are saying-
If the stamina are small on the flowers of a given plant then the fruits of that plant are more likely to have a seed cavity smaller then a plant with larger average stamina.
Am I interpreting this correctly.?

I have never really looked at the size of the stamina on a flower
I'll be running out to the garden now.........

7/22/2013 9:22:10 PM

Nova Scotia

You got it Cavitysearch. But, I have noticed this on one's I've sprayed my "Apple Juice" hormone concoctions on, this may not be as true on hormone free fruit, as this is the first year I have observed this phenomenon.

7/23/2013 9:18:33 AM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

Disected a few also.& looks to be each lobe to its own seed cavity.so if you were to pollinate each lobe with a different male.would the seeds have different genes?

7/23/2013 9:39:29 AM

Nova Scotia

in theory yes, but not easy to keep pollen on just one lobe, and not easy to know exactly were each seed pocket corresponds with each lobe year end . So other than yourself no one would likely trust the seeds from such a cross.

7/23/2013 3:31:48 PM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

Ok thanks mr t was just curius.

7/23/2013 5:01:29 PM