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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
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IanP
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Lymington UK
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First of all thank you very much for the emails, it’s very much appreciated.
I think Stuart and I have just made a major step forward in our pumpkin growing. I was having a chat with the GPC team before a meeting and Don mentioned the trouble he has pollinating with high temps. In fact he goes to great lengths to keep the area cool around the flowers and felt that temps over 30C or 90F were well worth trying to avoid.
So we did some tests
A flower in plastic bag (the way we have always pollinated) 36C or 102C
A flower in Muslin under shade 26C or 82F
So there you go, something so small can make such a huge difference. We’ve always had more problems of fruit aborting in the glass house patches compared to the poly tunnel but the tunnel was always cooler. It’s a bit of a Eureka moment and a very welcome bit of good news.
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