Saving F1 seed

[daylily]

Oh, no, far from it, it just going to be a surprise, might be rubbish or might be ace, or anything in between...

[Demeter]

Now onto the serious~& sorry if I now sound dim!!But from all the above advice I take it that it's not worth saving seed from this years pumpkins if they've been growing close to other varieties?regardless of whether they were F1 or not?

That's what I take from it. If you want to save seed next year it'll have to be paintbrush time!

[lynda66]

yep, unless you aren't bothered what you get, then get new seeds, cos the seeds could produce anything.

[MaureenHall]

Well there won't be time now to grow any more new fruits from my pumpkins, but might be from the courgettes? Think I'll go and have a look and see if there's any female courgette flowers and I know there's loads of male pumpkin ones ......................... hmmmm fingers crossed

[lynda66]

one of my courgettes has been producing a couple of weeks, the other has just started today with it's first one, and my pumpkins have only been swelling for just over a week, so i would try with whatever is there, i have just done a patty pan squash with courgette pollen my main problem is too many flipping boy flowers and not enough girls

[MaureenHall]

No girl flowers on mine either just been to have a look. On the plus side though, one of the pumpkins that got battered with the hailstones a couple of weeks ago, though it's still small for a "Hundredweight" one, is growing in girth about three-quarters to 1 inch a day. It's up to 18" today. Pity about the girl flowers on the courgette though, would have liked to have tried that

[lynda66]

you may still get some yet, don't give up hope, mine seem to be getting loads of new flowers each day, my pumpkins are hundredweight too, they better get a wriggle on if they are going to be ready for halloween like they are supposed to be

[Cloud]

How about crossing beans and getting a Dwarf French Broad Runner Bean??????!!!!!