{"id":47731,"date":"2024-08-04T22:10:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T22:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=47731"},"modified":"2024-08-04T22:10:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T22:10:59","slug":"gardening-pollination-of-female-pumpkin-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/gardening-pollination-of-female-pumpkin-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening: pollination of female pumpkin flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about gardening: the tutor mentions an observation about bees and female pumpkin flowers.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?app=desktop&#038;v=Vwdwcg7fuYc\">this YouTube video by Grow with Honeybee<\/a> about the difference between male and female pumpkin flowers. Honeybee also shows therein how to pollinate the female flower.<\/p>\n<p>\nWondering if I should manually pollinate the female pumpkin flowers growing in the yard, I went out this morning to check their progress. A new female pumpkin flower had opened. Moreover, two honeybees were therein.<\/p>\n<p>\nI decided, in that case, not to intervene. Apparently, a female pumpkin flower, freshly blooming, can command a lot of attention from bees.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about gardening: the tutor mentions an observation about bees and female pumpkin flowers. I found this YouTube video by Grow with Honeybee about the difference between male and female pumpkin flowers. Honeybee also shows therein how to pollinate the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/gardening-pollination-of-female-pumpkin-flowers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gardening: pollination of female pumpkin flowers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2913],"tags":[3309,3308,3298],"class_list":["post-47731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","tag-bees","tag-pollination","tag-pumpkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47731"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47741,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47731\/revisions\/47741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}