Cucubits and cross pollination - help - Page 2

 

Billy wrote:

Did you think that I was making vague content-free noises of REASSURANCE, or
were you WORRIED that nobody would get THE TRUE MESSAGE  (TM)?

Take two tablespoons of white oil and have a lie down, it will stop the
shouting.


David

 



You sure are turning into a cranky ol' sot. What's got your knicker in a
knot? I knew quite clearly what you meant, but it seemed that Kitanda
wasn't getting the drift. When she comes back all full of
self-indignation, you can have her. OK?
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

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Have you met Frank? I think you'd like Frank. He is a courgette X
cucumber, cross pollinating kinda guy. Every time I see one of Frank's
posts, I always think that he should go pollinate himself.

But to the nut of your question, ah, there he is again, but Frank aside,
cucurbits only cross pollinate between the same species, not genera.
Courgettes are Cucurbita pepo, and cucumbers are Cucumis sativus.
Different species, different genera. You have less chance of a
pollination between the two, than ol' "ferret face" looking intelligent.
Yes, I am a naught boy, and I deserve a good spanking. I wonder if
"sweety" is still up?
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html

 

Kitanda wrote:

I doubt this, I have not heard of any cucumber that was dioecious.


But this year I have male/female cucumbers, and also male/female

This is not right.


Only if you have no bees to do the job.

But I was wondering if it's possible that an

That is how it normally works.

David

 

Kitanda said:

Are you sure that the cucumber variety you are growing this year will set
fruit without pollination?


Courgettes generally don't grow fruit without pollination.  The flower
drops, the incipent fruit eventually withers/rots/drops off.  It's a major
problem for some gardeners, which is why you run across instructions
for hand-pollinating them.


No.  Entirely different genera.

It's *possible* but unlikely to get natural crosses between plants in the
same genus.

Honestly, a bit daft, toward the end.

--
Pat in Plymouth MI
    
"Vegetables are like bombs packed tight with all kinds of important
nutrients..."     --Largo Potter, Valkyria  Chronicles
 
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