Ah, so the books will tell you Cucurbitaceae is the family of gourds—pumpkin, gourd, cucumber, all that. But in my field, it is the family of tension! You see “monoecious,” separate male and female flowers on one plant, and think nature’s perfect system. But for my hybrid export cucumbers, I watch those female flowers like a hawk, praying they set fruit before the heat wilts them. The science is in books, but the truth is in this morning’s failed pollination, *dikra*.
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