Flowering and fruit set of pumpkin cultivars under field conditions

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Field experiments with six pumpkin cultivars (Cucurbita pepo L.) were conducted in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1992 and 1993 to characterize the patterns of flowering and fruit set. Plants of all cultivars produced the greatest number of female flowers and exhibited the highest rate of fruit set 35-45 days after transplanting, during the first 2 weeks of greatest flower production ('peak bloom'). During the 3 weeks of peak bloom, each plant produced an average of 3.4 pistillate flowers in 1992 and 5.4 in 1993, and fruit set was 50.9% in 1992 and 74.6% in 1993, yielding 1.7 and 4.0 fruit per plant, respectively. In 1994, flower production was further studied with the cultivar Wizard. Flowers were produced in a ratio of 33 staminate to 1 pistillate flower over the entire season. Climatic conditions appeared to be secondary to physiological factors in affecting flowering and fruit set during all three seasons. Characterization of fruit set patterns in pumpkin may aid producers in scheduling pollination services and predicting yields.

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Stapleton, S. C., Wien, H. C., & Morse, R. A. (2000). Flowering and fruit set of pumpkin cultivars under field conditions. HortScience, 35(6), 1074–1077. https://doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.35.6.1074

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