Questions tagged [pumpkins]
Are winter squash in the species Cucurbita maxima grown for food and/or decorative purposes.
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Sprouted pumpkin seeds
My 10 year old son saved his pumpkin seeds from this years Halloween as he seen a recipe he wanted me to do with them, he put them in a tub with wet paper towels and left them. we never got round to ...
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Pumpkin can’t grow beyond 4 weeks
I have a pumpkin plant that I have grown from seeds. Infact it is a combination of multiple plants, since I sprinkled multiple seeds and they have now interlocked. The plants have grown quite large ...
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Butternut Squash - when to harvest?
I think most of them are ripe now, but as I can see, they still keep growing, increasing lenght:
Should I harvest them now or I can wait? When harvested, I have no cool place for storage, so better ...
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Is it healthy to consume pumpkin flowers with its vines diseased affected by Squash Bug?
Is it OK to eat flowers of Pumpkins Vines affected by Squash Bug? The vines are dying but not the flowers or Pumpkins, Missouri.
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How long will pumpkins still grow after turning orange?
My two pumpkins turned orange by September 1. They are both still fairly small, and the stems are still green and sturdy. How long can I leave them to grow?
I've seen conflicting advice on the ...
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Why does this Pumpkin have Two Different Sides?
I planted some pumpkin seeds from a fancy (and tasty) pumpkin I bought last year, I think was a glass slipper pumpkin (https://outstandingseed.com/shop/stacking-pumpkins/glass-slipper-f1-pumpkin/).
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Do large varieties grown in a pot yield small fruits or die?
Consider those large varieties of pumpkins or sunflowers eg mammoth sunflower. What would happen if one plants such a large variety in a small container ?
Would the plant restrict it's growth and ...
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Pumpkins are not producing male flowers
I haven't seen a single male flower this season and as a result females are shriveling and dropping off.
Any suggestions?
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Can I Reuse Halloween Pumpkins as Fertilizer?
I have a bunch of pumpkins from Halloween. Normally I’d just toss them in the trash however began to wonder about an alternate use. Can I just mash up those pumpkins and spread around my trees and ...
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Odd pumpkin flower
This is something we have never seen. My neighbour has a pumpkin plant which recently started flowering. They were all male flowers till now. But those flowers were all green, not normal yellow ...
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pumpkin identification and control
Location: north Italy (alps)
My mom has a corner in which she throws away garden/grass cuts and vegetables/fruit/plants scraps. By spring this will have (to some degree) turned to "earth", ...
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How to protect a pumpkin plant on the balcony?
I have planted a relatively large pumpkin plant without much hassle in a pot and now it's becoming relatively large and I have moved it to my balcony in a larger pot (approximately 60L).
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Pumpkin leaves have weird spots
I just started doing gardening and I grew some pumpkins from seeds. They were doing fine until I saw some weird spots on the leaves.
It became worse the second day and the edge of the leaf looked ...
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Can I grow a pumpkin in a pot on a balcony?
I've seen a pumpkin plant hanging down from somebody's balcony, bearing fruits and am wondering, how is it possible? I've tried planting a hokkaido pumpkin into a pot and it grew very small and beared ...
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What kind of pumpkin is it?
I've planted some pumpkins this year from the seeds we've collected from the store bought pumpkins: hokkaido, spaghetti, delicata. At some point the plants got all mixed up, so I didn't know which is ...
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Pumpkin Plant Suddenly Wilted
I had a thriving pumpkin plant (it is a bix max, grown to about 20 feet, many pumpkins starting to develop). Today I cut off one of the branches (I have cut off branches before and no problems). A ...
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Big Max pumpkin leaves shrivel/go limp in hot afternoon, even with frequent waterings; how to stop this?
I have a Big Max pumpkin plant that sprouted in late June and has since taken off, with a lot of leaves, flowers, and pumpkin buds. I have been fertilizing it fairly often with a pretty balanced ...
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Brown on emerging pumpkin fruit?
I have planted a pumpkin which has been growing really well, however today when I came up And started weeding around my plants found a brown wide ring on the emerging fruit.
Any suggestions what this ...
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(NW Indiana) Yellow pumpkin stems and leaves
Northwest Indiana. Pumpkins were planted at the end of May. I noticed within the last 2-3 weeks the stems on both plants started turning yellow and the skin started breaking open (for lack of a better ...
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Need help identifying this flower (male/female) on a Big Max pumpkin; also, why is it growing flowers already?
I have two Big Max pumpkins I planted around June 20th. High temps since then have been in the high 90's. I fertilize weekly. The plants are still kind of small (one is about 2 ft. x 2 ft. and the ...
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Pumpkin seedlings dying off?
I planted a few pumpkin seeds in pots 2 to a pot and left in my greenhouse, after about 4 weeks I had 2 lovely looking plants in one pot each with 3 leaves, at this point I transplanted them each into ...
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How long after "days to harvest" time frame will pumpkins still be good?
I will be planting some pumpkins, some from some seeds my kid got from church teachers (presumably normal Jack-o-latern style pumpkins) and some Ferry-Morse Pumpkin Big Max. I noticed the Big Max ...
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Why is my pumpkin vine no longer growing?
So, I'm growing a Big Max pumpkin in a 4x8 bed. Everything was going just fine, one viable pumpkin started growing. Things were looking good.
All of the sudden, the vine itself just stopped growing, ...
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Rats! There are rats destroying my pumpkins!
I have a plot in a community garden, and this past summer I planted New England pie pumpkins. They did VERY well (I had close to 20 fruits on 4 vines), but just before I harvested them some rats moved ...
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Should I be worried about this Pumpkin plant discolouration?
Should I be worried about this Pumpkin plant discolouration?
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pumpkins turning white and dying on the vine [closed]
My pumpkins are dying. They get to be about 5 inched around and then they turn white and die. Why?
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Why has 20% of my pumpkin plant suddenly died and how can I save it?
So I had a thriving Pumpkin plant. For about a couple of weeks the big leaves in the middle of the plant (so the oldest leaves) started to yellow and get crisply on the edges. We've had 90 to 100 ...
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Why are some of my pumpkin plants wilting, and showing what looks like stem rot?
Up to this date we have had a healthy crop of about 500 flowering pumpkin plants, however, over the last 3 days we have lost maybe 20 of them. They will simply wilt over 24hrs and then die:
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Quickest pumpkin variety and advice on fast growth
I'm in Zone 7a, right on the edge of 7b and I had the sudden urge to grow a pumpkin. Obviously its Sep 1st and winter is coming but I'm wondering if it is possible to grow my own pumpkin (even a tiny ...
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How do I use a suggested spray for white fungus on my pumpkin plants?
I've got 3 pumpkin plants growing and they're pretty huge and producing.
The white fungus is pretty bad so I'm using a suggested spray, and I hope it works.
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What are the black creatures on my pumpkin leaves?
My Giant Atlantic pumpkins are now 12 weeks old and I've noticed grey/black things on the underside of some of the leaves.
I thought this was a growth of some sort but when touched, they move and seem ...
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Is this discoloration on a pumpkin plant stem caused by squash vine borer?
I have a big, healthy looking pumpkin plant with a dozen small pumpkins starting to bud.
Today I went in and got a good look at the base of the vine and found this discoloration. Is this squash vine ...
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Why have only the female flowers bloomed in my pumpkin patch
I planted two Giant Atlantic pumpkin plants in my garden around 9 weeks or so ago. The male flowers where the first to show, many of them but haven't bloomed and are quite firm to the touch still. ...
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What is happening to my pumpkin shoot?
Please find attached picture of my pumpkin shoot. The leaves show a whitish appearance. I am growing it with vermi compost and cocopit mix. Can somebody tell what has been happening with the plant ...
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Pumpkin or something else?
This was a volunteer growing I believe from whatever was in our compost from last year. There were pumkin seeds in the compost but I don't recall composting gourds. We live in MD ic it makes any ...
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Why are my pumpkins only growing small, then dying?
My pumpkin vine is very healthy, but the pumpkins grow to about the size of a golf ball and die. I water them and they are in good soil. Why is this happening?
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Can I save a male pumpkin flower for later pollination?
I have a pumpkin that's been putting out male flowers for about 3 weeks with no females yet. I'm worried I might not have any male flowers open when the females do bloom. Can I save some male flowers ...
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Can I store pumpkin seeds that have gotten damp?
I'm rather new to gardening, and I bought some pumpkin seeds today, Queensland Blue if it matters. I planted some and was planning to keep the rest, but they all accidentally got a little wet.
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Is it possible to recycle a Jack-o'-lantern into compost?
Since pumpkins are organic material, I'm assuming it would be okay to add them to a composting pile.
Is there any reason as to why pumpkins shouldn't be composted?
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Pumpkins survive and continue to produce but fruit went rotten after some development
I seeded some "atlantic giant" pumpkins in april, in a big lawn at full sun for all day long.
They started to grow and to flower, and after some time they started to produce some pumpkins. They grew ...
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When trellising pumpkins, do I need to fertilise more heavily?
This year I decided to try trellising my pumpkins and am wondering about the impact this might have on the fruit, since the vines won't be putting down roots as they run. Does anyone have experience ...
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When do Big Max pumpkins start to produce?
I have a Big Max pumpkin that sprouted a little over a month ago. It's looking good and producing lots of leaves, but I haven't seen the first sign of buds anywhere. I've never done pumpkins before, ...
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Pumpkin sprout and pepper plants have holes in leaves
I have a pumpkin sprout that sprouted very nicely, but I woke up this morning and the sprout had two holes in it. The holes were yellowish and had scabbing around the outside. The pepper plant is ...
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How do you tell when pumpkins are ready to harvest?
I have several large pumpkins on a vine but am not sure when to pick them.
I have heard they are similar to potatoes in that you wait till the vine starts to die before harvesting.
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Why does my pumpkin patch have only male blossoms?
I have a pumpkin patch in Illinois with 30 plants. They're all in bloom now but are only sprouting male blossoms. How do I get them to give me female blossoms? I'm worried I won't have a single ...
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Pumpkins in Florida
I planted a patch on July 4th, seedlings sprouted a couple days later. Its been fungus/disease free (I spray a baking soda organic homemade spray every 10 days).
The past week we've been getting some ...
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Why do my pumpkins develop rotting black dots after harvesting?
I have bought a number of pumpkins from a gardener. I'm storing them in the basement at about 12°C (54°F).
A couple of days ago, most of them started showing small, rotting black dots that grow ...
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Will an unevenly coloured (green) pumpkin ripen to a nice even orange?
My experience of cucurbits is mostly courgettes and cucumbers which a) don't matter too much about an even colour and b) don't sit so heavily on the ground.
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What is a good frugal method for providing shade to fruit-bearing vines?
What is a good and, hopefully, frugal solution for providing shade to long vines?
In my case, I'm dealing with pumpkin vines on the ground.
I imagine a combination of sheets and chicken wire might ...
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Why are my pumpkins dying? Is it the heat?
I'm getting plenty of flowers, and about half of them produce a tiny little pumpkin.
However, after only a couple of days, the pumpkins begin to turn black and shrivel up.
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