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Los Angeles Ca.

my girlfriend is pumpkinwidow and she wants to pull her plant. she has had 2 flowers dye (female). is it over or should she keep trying this year ??

7/19/2004 4:20:14 PM

Massillon, Ohio

what do you mean 'dye'...like 'die'...abort ? turn white and squishy ? its not over till its OVER. are the leaves dead and flat and there is no growth what so ever?if not, IT IS NOT OVER !! maybe it just didnt polinate.

7/19/2004 5:07:24 PM

Enumclaw WA

basebell7 offers good advice. It may very well not be over. This is a good place to ask lots of questions, try some things and learn as you grow. Have fun.

7/19/2004 11:35:28 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Another vote to "KEEP GROWING!"

We pollinated one last year on August 9th that finished at 200 lbs. Not huge, but genetically it was a winner. For some reason, it produced our most agressive start of this year. Go figure.

It is important to set a fruit in the first 2 weeks of July if you'd like a 1500 lb fruit. But plenty of 1000 pounders were pollinated outside the "golden window".

7/20/2004 7:03:15 AM

Small town in California heart land

Id keep it going just for the sake of seeing what happens. something is better than nothing.

7/20/2004 11:01:01 AM

Ohio, USA

Its not over yet. I don't even have any AG females yet. The season doesn't end until the first day of frost(but I see you're in LA and I'm pretty sure there's no frost there)

7/20/2004 11:10:55 AM

Lakewood, CA

When he says my females die, they don't even mature enough for me to pollinate. Small females start to form, but within days they shrivel up and die. It's already happened to 3 of them and I hold no hope for the fourth and what I'm pretty sure is the final.

Could it just be the heat that keeps killing them? We have put shade all over the patch and each time I see a new female, I put additional shade over it to try to keep it cool.

7/20/2004 11:39:40 AM

Lakewood, CA

Good News! I hate to admit it, but I got so discouraged with my plant, that I simply just started to ignore it. I figured if it grows, it grows, if not, no big deal.

Well yesterday, while helping my boyfriend tend to his pumpkin (which is doing GREAT!), he walked around the patch and asked if one of the vines was from my plant and low-and-behold, there sat a female that was ready to open today.

I searched the plant for any signs of a male and I only found two. I decided to not let nature take it's course and pollinated the female last night with both of them. One of them seemed rather small and I wasn't taking any chances.

So I guess yesterday is considered the day my fruit was set? July 21st! Even if I only get a 50# pumpkin from it, I'll be happy. The plant struggled from day one just to get this far.

Thanks for all the support.

7/22/2004 6:37:30 PM