A friend said they would cross breed and to move one of them to the other side of the garden. Is this true?
2007-06-17 02:26:33 · 3 answers · asked by chickem 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
I've never heard of zucchini and watermelon cross pollinating, but I do know that pumpkin and watermelon do from experience. However, according to K-State this just doesn't happen.
"Many questions also arise regarding cross-pollination of plants in the garden. This usually comes in the form of "I planted my X next to my Y and now all of my X's taste just like Y's !" We get more questions regarding crossing in the vine crop (cucumber, muskmelon, watermelon, pumpkin, squash) family than any others. For all practical purposes, this does NOT happen. Each of these crops has different chromosome numbers which means they will not cross with one another even if you tried. Cucumbers cross only with other cucumbers, etc. In addition, you would not see the result of any cross until you planted the seed from a fruit produced this year and grew out the resultant fruit in the next generation next year. Remember self-pollenized crops do not cross with anything else. The vine crops are insect pollenized so that crossing might happen ONLY for crosses within the crop and ONLY if you save your seed for next year's crop."
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2007-06-17 03:47:15 · answer #1 · answered by Sptfyr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt if they would cross, but even if they did, what's the problem? You are (presumably) growing both for the fruits which will be unaffected. Only plants grown from their seed could show a change.
2007-06-17 03:40:02 · answer #2 · answered by selractrad 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
possibly but watermelons run very bad and need room i would make sure to have plenty of room between the two you dont want the two running in to one another a big mess and makes for more work
2007-06-17 02:35:07 · answer #3 · answered by farmer fink 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋