RE: All one flower?
Thanks to Mike I went onto bigpumpkins.com and saw some pictures. I was just
worried that I'm getting so many large flowers with no fruit setting yet.
Where's the beginner's luck?
Plant is under shade cloth, leaves green and healthy with no burn and no
other problems. Hopefully we'll get a pumpkin developing soon.
Alan
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On Behalf
Of Bob Marcellus
Sent: 22 December 2004 03:56 PM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: 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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