Re: How quickly after pollination?

From another newbie, my experience is you have one whole morning to pollinate the female. From that point on, the petals begin to wilt and slowly shrivel up. I suppose the petals could fall off, but mine have not, they just shrivel up. If the pollination holds, your pumpkin should begin to grow and change color, if it did not it could abort right away, or anytime up to as much as softball size.
 
Again, this is from my experience, which is quite limited, but I do have 6 pumpkins set, have pollinated three in the past 4 days and so far they look ok.
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To the list,
     How quickly if at all is the female parts of the pumpkin supposed to fall off?  Forgive me for not knowing the correct plant part names, or remembering this from my bio-chem classes in college (wasn't my major anyway), I am curious if what we pollinate on the female end of the plant with the male end, whether or not that is supposed to fall off?  I should have thought of this several days ago.  Obviously my PUKOS still has hers attached and has somewhat been stunted in the growth department.  I urgently need an answer to this from anyone who has the time.  Thank-you

Frank O'Rourke 

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