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Dillsburg, PA

Have about 25 Howdens that are in a variety of maturing green-orange. I was reading that you are supposed to cure pumpkins before you store them. How do you guys do this. And do you leave your pumpkins out on the vine as late as possible or do you store them before selling or carving. Are they better off being stored for disease purposes or left on the vine. I want to give them away on October 10th. They are on styrofoam and stems are coated with sulfer.

8/30/2009 3:51:09 PM

Reed Point Montana

leave them on the vine till after the first 1-2 frosts and it will melt down the plants and cure up the pumpkins (frost wont hurt them), by then they will have turned orange and the stem will be hard and easy to harvest by snaping the stem. harvesting them too soon or wile they are still green will invite spoiling and the will take a very long time to turn color.

8/31/2009 12:26:39 AM