Re: female flowering
Though I am not an expert by any means, I have been growing pumpkins for many years. I live a much different climate than many. We typically don't start summer weather here until July, and August and September are definitely our hottest months. October can be downright summer-like as well. We generally don't see our first frost until mid November, sometimes December. I live along the Central Coast of California. I have no idea when you would normally get your frost and low temps, but I just wanted to point out how different the climates can be in different regions. When do you typically get frost and fall temps? I usually get the entire month of October to finish up the pumpkins.
Valerie
Glenn Peters <gpeters@ll.mit.edu> wrote: i think the fall frosts and low temps would put an end to your growing
season before November?
Glenn
At 02:39 PM 8/2/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>What if you let them grow longer? Could they still get to 1000 lbs?
>
> My pumpkins were pollinated rather late. I've got one on day 10 today
> and a couple that I'm waiting to set. But, there is a fair early in
> Novemeber (The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto) that I may be
> able to enter them in.
>
> So, could another month at the end of the growing season make up for
> time lost at the beginning?
>
> Thanks,
> Marc
>
>
>Kevin Snyder wrote:
> Too late to grow a 1000lber, yes. Too late to grow a nice 500+lber, no.
> You'll still have time to get a nice pumpkin. Good luck.
>
>Kevin
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>Pumpkin-growing archives: http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/
>To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
>message text UNSUBSCRIBE PUMPKINS
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Pumpkin-growing archives: http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PUMPKINS
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Pumpkin-growing archives: http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PUMPKINS
