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| About the Author Kalindi 7th February 2013 10:02pm #UserID: 3163 Posts: 6 View All Kalindi's Edible Fruit Trees |
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John Mc says... Male flowers usually appear first. They are on long thin slender stalks. Female flowers have a small baby pumpkin at the base of the flower and on shorter stalks. Check every morning till you see a female flower open, then pick (cut) a nice fresh male flower and carefully remove the petals. if it's ripe, bright yellow pollen will be falling off it everywhere. You have to transfer some of that pollen to the female flower. If you are successful, the baby pumpkin will start to get larger, if not, it will go yellow and fall off. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 8th February 2013 7:48am #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Diana says... Hi Kalindi, Pumpkins (where I live anyway) are a bit fickle and they tend not to have female flowers when it is very rainy, overcast or very hot (i.e. most of the time in summer, when they have to be grown). When they do, they will be near the end of the growing tip not in the older part of the vine. Pinching out some of the growing tips to make them branch apparently helps to encourage female flowers. Also, pumpkins (like zucchini) like slightly alkaline soil- they are more likely to give you fruit if you sprinkle some lime or dolomite around. You can tell very quickly if you have successfully pollinated the pumpkin- they will start to grow fast about a day later. Cucumbers pollinate much more easily- just leave them be and give them a trellis to grow up and you should get cucumbers. Diana. | About the Author Diana Brisbane 8th February 2013 9:49am #UserID: 3004 Posts: 284 View All Diana's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author amanda19 8th February 2013 10:15am #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Diana Brisbane 8th February 2013 4:56pm #UserID: 3004 Posts: 284 View All Diana's Edible Fruit Trees |
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amanda says... Well there you go - I wonder Jap pumpkins have temp preferences? We are cooler than you here, though...hmnn... I grew some up in Geraldton Diana - they were an heirloom "selection" from Diggers (from memory..) and it's way warmer up there..I got heaps of them... Trouble is they cooked themselves come December/Jan.. :-( Horrible! | About the Author amanda19 8th February 2013 7:01pm #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
Julie says... Diana, you have chioggia? Didn't know you could get it in Oz. I would love a few seeds if you can spare them. I used to grow a pumpkin known as Chinese pumpkin. Beautiful flavour. It produced male flowers for ages before the female, and never at the same time. So I collected the male pollen in the early am and kept in the freezer. I brushed it over the females when they arrived, and got quite good pollination. | About the Author Julie Roleystone WA 8th February 2013 9:22pm #UserID: 154 Posts: 1842 View All Julie's Edible Fruit Trees |
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snottiegobble says... Julie, I should have heaps of seeds because I have a lot of very ugly Marina del Chioggia pumpkins growing! They grow as big as average Qld blues! Only 2 seeds germinated & grew in pots to be planted out mid spring.Now I have a job to find the summer squash & zucchinis because these things are so invasive! | About the Author snottiegobble South of Bunbury 8th February 2013 11:34pm #UserID: 3468 Posts: 1458 View All snottiegobble's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Julie Roleystone WA 9th February 2013 9:20pm #UserID: 154 Posts: 1842 View All Julie's Edible Fruit Trees |
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