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Sunday, June 21, 2015
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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“Anthesis” Application
This shows the stage of development you want to apply the “Anthesis” spray that I developed. This is a pumpkin that was pollinated 48-hours ago. As you can see I use blue plastic cups to cover the flower to prevent bees from making my crosses impure. This pumpkin is under an umbrella which is also helpful due to the rainy weather patter we have been in recently.
What I do is take the Maxus (brown vial) that should be kept frozen out of the freezer the day I do the pollination and put it in the refrigerator so it can defrost. The morning that I need the contents are back in a liquid from.
Then I take about ten mL of distilled water and put it in my mixing container. Then I add both contents from my vials (Cucurbit + Maxus) and rinse them out with distilled water. Once this is complete I then add more distilled water so the final volume is 30mL. Add this final mixture to my fine mist spray bottle and then go apply it to the actual pumpkin. There is no need to apply any to the actual flower as call division is occurring in the actual pumpkin so this is where you want to target your spray application.
This is pumpkin is on my 1719.5 Daletas ’14 plant. The tag writing in the background decoded is as follows… 6-19 = June 19th pollination day & 4 lob. = four lobe flower & 9.9 = this is the rating out of 10 for symmetry and this is a very, very near perfect rating.
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