RE: nothing yet

I was having the same issue, went out to bigpumpkins.com to post a question and noticed someone had beat me to it. The one thing we had in common was continuing to fertilize. My females were getting to pea size and aborting; seems the 20-20-20 applications put to much nitro into the plant. Plants look incredible, males standing around all over the place, just no females.

 

I’m going to lay off the fert for a while to see if that makes a difference; it’s been about 6 days since my last application and a new round of females are beginning to appear. We’re getting a fair amount of rain in my area (central Virginia) and the temps have been mid 80’s, so we’ll see.

 

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From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [mailto:owner-pumpkins@hort.net]On Behalf Of WILLYRAIN@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:38 PM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Re: nothing yet

 

In a message dated 7/25/2002 8:47:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Peapod323@aol.com writes:



is anyone else in the same boat as me? just found a female. Hoping this will be the one. Is this year different for anyone? slower? I have taken good care of the plants but still no pumpkin. The plant i thought was going to be a good one, all the vines keep cracking. I am getting a little discouraged at this point. any thoughts anyone???????????//



wendy in massachusetts



Wendy
I have a few pumpkins in Michigan, but nothing the size I have grown in the past. I keep loosing the new ones that I set and the biggest ones I have are no bigger than a basket ball. I normally have pumpkins pushing 100" around.
The short answer to your question is Yes my Pumpkins in Michigan are way, way behind. The 6 weeks of no or very little rain and the 90+ temps I am sure added to the problem.
Good Luck
Bill Garvey

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