Would that mean that this is a good pumpkin year? (Some years aren’t – too much rain, for example – causes rot in the fields).
NoLandBeyond_
That’s awesome! I I grew my first pumpkin this year and have two questions for you!
Question: do they (pumpkin fruit) keep growing after they’ve turned orange? Mine look exactly like your orange types with the thick stems.
Background: I had a volunteer establish in my raised bed. I successfully trained a single vine to grow down along the ground (approx 30ft long now). I trimmed off any secondary vines to conserve space. I haven’t harvested the pumpkin yet.
Question 2: any reason why I was only able to get one female flower to establish?
Background 2: all of the female flowers along this single vine never matured enough to bloom. They’d turn yellow and die back. This occurred before and after I was able to get a single flower to establish and pollinate. I used a good deal of kelp early on in it’s development along with higher P K fertilizers. Even after I throttled back the kelp, the female flowers just rarely showed up and always died before getting big enough to bloom.
Few-Raise-1825
This is spectacular! Great jorb 👍
Active-Trick1941
BTW, this is the harvest from less than 1/4 acre of 6 acres.
jh937hfiu3hrhv9
No family can eat that much pumpkin pie. 🤪
BombSolver
Do you not have squash bugs? They absolutely F my pumpkins up.
Hillbaby84
My 9 year old became a pumpkin farmer this year. Last winter he threw out a bunch of old Halloween pumpkins and they grew everywhere! He harvested 9 in total lol.
takeoff_power_set
waiting 20 years for the pumpkins to ripen could test any man’s patience!
foreskinfive
Outstanding! I have twelve.
junup1
I wonder if this year lined up right for winter squashes. I’m in NE zone 6 and I have what I think will be my biggest crop yet. Kabocha, futsu, butternuts were all insanely productive this year with squash easily 20% larger than past years. I hope those pumpkins make a lot of people happy this Autumn!
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Perfect amount for a small town pumpkin patch.
That’s impressive, grats
That’s a lot of pumpkins. Well done.
Would that mean that this is a good pumpkin year? (Some years aren’t – too much rain, for example – causes rot in the fields).
That’s awesome! I I grew my first pumpkin this year and have two questions for you!
Question: do they (pumpkin fruit) keep growing after they’ve turned orange? Mine look exactly like your orange types with the thick stems.
Background: I had a volunteer establish in my raised bed. I successfully trained a single vine to grow down along the ground (approx 30ft long now). I trimmed off any secondary vines to conserve space. I haven’t harvested the pumpkin yet.
Question 2: any reason why I was only able to get one female flower to establish?
Background 2: all of the female flowers along this single vine never matured enough to bloom. They’d turn yellow and die back. This occurred before and after I was able to get a single flower to establish and pollinate. I used a good deal of kelp early on in it’s development along with higher P K fertilizers. Even after I throttled back the kelp, the female flowers just rarely showed up and always died before getting big enough to bloom.
This is spectacular! Great jorb 👍
BTW, this is the harvest from less than 1/4 acre of 6 acres.
No family can eat that much pumpkin pie. 🤪
Do you not have squash bugs? They absolutely F my pumpkins up.
My 9 year old became a pumpkin farmer this year. Last winter he threw out a bunch of old Halloween pumpkins and they grew everywhere! He harvested 9 in total lol.
waiting 20 years for the pumpkins to ripen could test any man’s patience!
Outstanding! I have twelve.
I wonder if this year lined up right for winter squashes. I’m in NE zone 6 and I have what I think will be my biggest crop yet. Kabocha, futsu, butternuts were all insanely productive this year with squash easily 20% larger than past years. I hope those pumpkins make a lot of people happy this Autumn!