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| These pumpkins (about 4-5 plants here) came from last years Halloween pumpkin, which I tossed into the compost. The seeds must have sprouted, so I carefully transplanted them to this patch this spring little over a month ago, I think. How is their growth for this length of time? I see a bunch of flower buds forming, which I'm pretty sure are mostly, if not entirely male. I've read this is pretty common, and that the females should be arriving within a couple weeks, is this really normal? I also wondered about that one bit of vine that grabbed onto the fence there, and started climbing vertically. Should I just leave that section be? Can pumpkins that grow off the ground like that survive, or will they be too heavy and damage the vine? Thought maybe I should chop off that section to divert the plants energy back to growing horizontally (left in that picture) into my yard as I hoped. |
This post was edited by Pd0xGard_ on Sun, Jun 8, 14 at 12:56
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| Here is a closeup of the section growing upwards, do I want this? Or is that just wasting the plants energy? |
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- Posted by theforgottenone1013 5b/6a MI (My Page) on Sun, Jun 8, 14 at 13:33
| That's a healthy pumpkin plant. The flowers will sort themselves out eventually. It's normal for either males (usually) or females to show up without the other gender initially. The vines will climb things if they are close and no, it's not a problem. No reason at all to chop it down. If a pumpkin does form on the vines that are climbing the fence you will need to make a sling to support the pumpkin to keep it from tearing the vines down. But if you don't want it climbing the fence, you can either snip the tendrils holding it to the fence so that it will lay back on the ground or just train the vine back down. If it were mine I'd leave it alone and let it do what it wants (unless it started growing into the neighbor's yard). Rodney |
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| O, ok. It's actually about 4-5 plants I think. They were sprouting in clumps in the compost pile (in the background of the photo above), and it was hard to thin them out initally. So I picked out 4-5 clumps and set them about 10-12 inches apart. So there's probably about 4-5 actual plants there. So excited, a few years ago I got a 22 lb pumpkin when the compost had pumpkin babies the first time ;) Hopefully I'll get a few this time around as well. I've never really fertilized, or learned the proper watering technique/amounts, besides watering the ground, and trying to keep the foliage dry. I have a feeling I water too often (once or every other day when it's over 80F). |
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