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Friday, July 17, 2015
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swhitty
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Bangor, ME
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I went out to the garden early this morning because my 1421 Gaboury was going to open today based on the way the flower looked yesterday. However, when I got out the flower was only partially open. I decided to collect some male flowers anyway, but for some reason none of my male flowers had visible pollen grains on them, almost like the rain had washed them all clean. And I have tons of males on both my plants. I decided to "paint" a few males onto that female anyway, and I'm going to leave it up to the bees to do the rest since I don't think my hand pollination was very effective. The pumpkin isn't very far out on the main vine and it's late for pollinating, so I'm not expecting much from this one, but I'm still excited to see how much it grows. It has 5 lobes, one of which is a bit deformed.
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