Re: All one flower?

Alan

The males normally appear first as you are experiencing. When a female appears you will see the little pumpkin below the flower part.

Could someone send him a picture of a female flower?

Bob.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Carpenter" <alan@rasrisk.co.za>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 8:27 AM
Subject: All one flower?


Hi guys, sorry to hear how cold it is in the USA, we only get to around 32
in the Southern Hemisphere so cannot even relate to how cold it must be. But
we never have a white Christmas either, any offers to let us experience a
white Christmas in the US? (Just kidding).

My pumpkin has grown like crazy in the last 4 weeks and is now around 20
feet long (from about 2 feet 4 weeks ago). Only problem is it keeps growing
long stem large flowers, which I believe is the female flower? The smaller
flowers on the vine have not started to open and don't appear to have any
fruit setting yet. Is this normal? I thought the female flower is meant to
pollinate the male flower, which obviously cannot happen if only one is
open!

This is also strange to me, a female flower pollinating the male? Is that
correct, and if so, is this a common thing in the plant kingdom?

Alan

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