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  1. 14th January 2015, 12:56 PM #1
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    Default Pumpkins and watermelons ?

    When pumpkins/squash and watermelons are planted too close together is it that seasons fruit that are affected or is it the seed planted the following season that is affected ? That is pumpkins tasting like watermelons and different textured flesh.
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    Wow, really? I hadn't heard about this. Does it happen with other cucurbits too?


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    Yeah, a few years ago I picked a pumpkin and it had a faint taste of watermelon and the flesh had the texture somewhere between a watermelon and pumpkin, gave it to the chooks. So I'm not sure whether it was a cross between the two or some dodgy seed. Haven't had a problem with cucumbers, squashes and pumpkins planted closely only watermelons and pumpkins. So these days I grow pumpkins and the neighbour (2 km away) plants watermelon, then we do a bit of bartering over a red or two. Or three................zzz.
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    I wonder if it might be the bees hopping from one flower to another and transfering pollen .... or something?



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    Its the ants... the tiny little ones... being so small you cant see the tiny little hole they make to get inside the pumpkin and watermelon and transfer suffucient flesh across to taint each fruit
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    Cheeky little critters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rod1949 View Post
    Its the ants... the tiny little ones... being so small you cant see the tiny little hole they make to get inside the pumpkin and watermelon and transfer suffucient flesh across to taint each fruit
    Is this happening after the fruit have formed?
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    Quote Originally Posted by pjt View Post
    Is this happening after the fruit have formed?
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