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Show us your Pumpkins!

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  • #2
    martinn123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭martinn123


    I only got 2, and the plant is over 7' long

    Second one looks a bit unwell, I previously posted on Growing a Marrow, thanks to those who correctly suggested it's a pumpkin.


  • #3
    DBIreland
    Registered Users Posts: 639 ✭✭✭DBIreland


    Hi,
    I didn't get a single pumpkin! Did you guys pollinate the flowers yourselves or just leave it to the bees?
    I got plenty of flowers but no fruit.


  • #4
    martinn123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭martinn123


    DBIreland wrote: »
    Hi,
    I didn't get a single pumpkin! Did you guys pollinate the flowers yourselves or just leave it to the bees?
    I got plenty of flowers but no fruit.

    In my case, the first fruit was pollinated by the bees, I posted in this Forum and discovered the fact that there are Male & Female Flowers, so I watched until a Female flower was blooming, and I pollinated it from a male, and was successful.

    Since then, only male flowers, hence only 2 fruit.


  • #5
    Sgt Pepper 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,627 ✭✭✭Sgt Pepper 64


    My youngest (5) just stuck the seeds in the soil and I watered.
    The sunny spell must have helped and I have seen bees flying around them, so good old bees!


  • #6
    yellowlabrador
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭yellowlabrador


    I've brought mine in to ripen them indoors.
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