pumpkin female flowers just shrivel up and die , they don't even
chancygardener
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Comments (19)Jamilyian, I just learned something interesting from you! I wasnt aware that Hostas didnt thrive in zone 9. Not that it matters here in zone 6, but it is something that I never knew before. If you have never been to a botanical garden before, be prepared to be overwhelmed!! I live an hour away from the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, which has an incredible home gardening display garden. Any plant (new or old) that you can think of is there. There are many plants that my eyes just go right over in the books and catalogs, but they are able to bring them to my attention with the creative combinations they do with them. I have been to MANY botanical gardens all over the country (my vacation destinations are determined by which one I want to go to next). I have been to some that arent so great, but I guess that depends upon personal taste. Although I LOVE tropicals, and Hawaii has been my favorite trip of all, I wasnt too inspired by the botanical gardens, simply because I cannot do what they do in their climate, and the plant choices are quite limited it seems. I guess what I mean is, there is little inspiration for anything other than my indoor garden. I remember questioning why there wasnt anymore annual displays, like we have here. Of course, you can find a zillion other things to do in Hawaii and I certainly wasnt dissapointed!!! I could spend a whole week driving that trip to Hana, finding tropicals in the wild that grow like trees, where here they are limited to (at the most) a 12 inch container! Can anyone elaborate more on the Hosta issue she mentioned? I dont understand why it is that they would "die out" and not return. Is it true that they need to "freeze" for a while in order to thrive? Wouldnt there be many species that would do the same thing? I find this very interesting, I never thought that most things would NOT thrive in zone 9. This could be my lesson for the day....See Moremy female pumpkin flowers are falling off!!!
Comments (12)Here is a couple pictures i just took today of them, the longest one with a male flower in bloom on it seems to look healthy (although with this being my first time growing pumpkin i dont really know for sure), its the longest out of the three, and the other picture shows my two pumpkin vines that ive noticed are yellowing in the leaves, unfortunately i have them planted right next to eachother because i ran out of room in my garden to separate them and have a suitable place for the one i would move. They all had what looked like rot at the base stem of the vine, so i buried the part of the stem that had rot all the way up to where the rot ended and the healthy stem began, which seemed to help because they grew considerably right after i did that, but i dont know if maybe that could be to blame as well. This post was edited by MissKayle10-3-13 on Mon, Jun 23, 14 at 12:10...See MoreNo female flowers, just buds. :(
Comments (2)My first year growing pumpkins too, so I'm no expert, but here's my 2 cents: 1 of my plants (Spookies variety) started producing fruit quickly, but the others lagged behind... lots of male flowers but no females... or female buds would form, then die and fall off without opening. But eventually these plants came through also, and now all of my 7 plants are producing at least one or two pumpkins. I think it has a lot to do with the overall health and vigor of the plant... I think the plant "knows" if it's strong enough to support fruit, and the females don't come until it's ready. So just keep your plants healthy, and they will come. I also think it has to do with the amount of sun. We've had warm weather and tons of rain here in the Carolinas. My plants seemed for the most part healthy and strong, but most days were more cloudy than sunny. When the sun shined strong for a couple days, that's when my females stopped dying and started producing....See MoreNo blooming males to pollinate my female pumpkin flower
Comments (4)I don't know if it will work for you or not, but there were no usable male flowers open when my last female flower opened. I took one of the closed male flowers that were starting to "ripen" and getting ready to open and peeled the flower petals off of it. I rubbed it with my finger to be safe and some pollen came off even though it was not yet open. The best thing I can say to do if you're worried about it, is to just test it. Worse comes to worse you cut a male flower for nothing. Oh well, there will be more later. Or, if you don't want to do that, you can wait. Everyone else is right, there will be plenty of male and female flowers later. My watermelon plant did that. My female flowers opened first and started dying off. I know, it's odd and I couldn't figure out why. Anyways, the male flowers came a bit after that and I had lots of personal sized watermelon. Good luck to you and keep up hope!...See Moredropthepurpleturtle
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