sumac male or female
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Iris GW
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wanted: male and female smooth sumac seedlings, cuttings, seeds
Comments (1)Hi xbox1rocks, Welcome to The Native Plant Exchange! Please see addressing newbie and newer member issues for instructions on getting your Member Page email link set up so that you can easily be reached for trading (exchanging). The thread also tells how to list what you have available for trade on your Member Trade List. hth. Sue...See MoreLots of male pumpkin flowers, no females?
Comments (46)It's normal for males to dominate before females start to bloom. Even then you will see pretty much one female to every ten males. To the poster who thinks his male flowers are dying off: all pumpkin flowers bloom for only a few hours every morning before they die off. As for not cutting the male flowers, I disagree. I've been growing pumpkins going on ten years now and if there are no female flowers to pollinate, then I will cut the male flowers just before they start to shrivel. I've yet to get a diseased plant doing this. I cut the male flowers because they are delicious to eat. So if you don't get pumpkins, you can enjoy cooking and eating the male flowers throughout the growing season. I cut off the stem, gently rinse them under cold water and saute them after dredging through a thin whole-wheat pancake batter - yum! BTW. I should mention that pumpkins are very difficult to hand pollinate. You'r e better off putting out bee loving flowers early in the season in order to get your location established on the honey bees routes. Ants do a pretty good job also, so if you see ants around your pumpkin vines, then do not try to exterminate them. If you do want to hand pollinate, then use a very soft artists brush and lightly stroke the pistol of a male plant (you should not see tons of pollen - in this case a little is too much), then lightly stroke the stamen of the female plant (again a little is too much). Even then you are not likely to succeed with hand pollination....See MoreFemale watermelon flowers coming before male ones?!
Comments (0)Jrtt...See MoreIs this a male or female flower on this cephalotaxus?
Comments (25)I thought they look very similar to olives too lol. But maybe I shouldn’t taste it. Maybe just 1 just so I can say I’ve had one and know what it tastes like. I believe cephalotaxus unlike the yews aren’t poisonous, especially if fruit is ripe. Looks like I’ll have no choice but to collect seeds and propagate...See MoreIris GW
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