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Thu, Jul 31, 14 at 19:59
| My Long Island Cheese pumpkin plant finally had some female flowers today, but oddly no male ones. Can I pollinate with something else, like the butternut squash nearby? I hate to waste female flowers. |
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- Posted by theforgottenone1013 5b/6a MI (My Page) on Thu, Jul 31, 14 at 20:16
| Since the LIC and butternut are both in the same species, C. moschata, you can. Just be sure you don't save seeds from it. Rodney |
This post was edited by theforgottenone1013 on Fri, Aug 1, 14 at 9:57
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| If you have butternuts nearby the bees will probably take care of things for you. Last year I had two smallish moschata plantings -- a butternut and Dickinson field pumpkins -- and the fruit set was fine. |
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| Thank you! I've had so few female blossoms everywhere on my squash that I was thinking of hand-pollinating just to make sure I don't waste any. I'm a nervous new gardener :) |
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