At this moment, I have done manual pollination on 8 female pumpkin flower. However, only 5 of them survive and growing bigger as pumpkin fruits. Basically, my success rate is 62.5 % on manual pollination.
This is the growth since early November 2016. After around 3 months and 16 days.
Measurement is taken early this week.
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The largest one is 35 cm in diameter |
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23 cm in diameter |
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25.5 cm in diameter |
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The unfortunate fallen female pumpkin flower |
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This is the picture while it is blooming |
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The look after 2 days manual pollinating |
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Booming before manual pollination process |
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The look after 2 days manual pollinating |
Nowadays, I make sure to be early in order to catch the female pumpkin flower booming on time for the manual pollination daily.
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Some beetle near my pumpkin leaves |
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They still stick together regardless I have lift up the above leaves |
Hopefully those beetles are the good bugs for my tree. Haven't check their details yet. Regardless what, I am disciplining myself to spray neem oil without fail to all my plants daily. Hopefully, that will minimize the damage and protect my crops.
My previous entry on the pumpkin:
1)
http://serinurulbeauty.blogspot.my/2016/12/my-attempt-growing-pumpkin-from-seeds.html
2)
http://serinurulbeauty.blogspot.my/2017/02/update-on-growth-of-my-plants-tomatoes.html
3)
http://serinurulbeauty.blogspot.my/2017/02/manual-pollinating-my-pumpkin-at-home.html
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