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Wednesday, July 23, 2014
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ApertureScience
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Federal Way, WA
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Here it is, at 20-something feet and 0 DAP on the 827.5 Gerhardt, my first pollination of the season (and the first female to appear on the plant). A huge shout-out to veteran Sumner grower Ron Barker who provided all of the male flowers for this morning's stormy pollination, and on very short notice, too. I had the incredible opportunity to tour his patch and am still reeling at how flippin' humongous everything there was; not just the massive pumpkins I saw, but the Jurassic Park leaves, stems, vines and flowers. It was an incredible honor and I definitely left his garden considerably more inspired.
As you can see in the photo, the flower only partially opened, but inside was a perfect five lobe blossom. It's officially an open pollination since although I used all 1168 Young pollen, one of the males had opened previously.
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