Re: Females aborting before they flower

I am experiencing the same thing this year.   I have only two pumpkins
growing, the rest aborted and the plants are lacking female production.
I believe this is weather related.   I live in Northern Ohio.  We had a
very slow start this year, cold and wet. Then it got hot and the plants
started to grow and produce females, but the temperatures and humidity were
so high they started to abort (drastic changes in temperatures).  Now the
past few weeks we have had all this rain and the nights are cool for
July......the plants went back into a growing spurt, they think it is June.
  
So, what I am doing is trimming the vines back, cutting off some
secondaries and forcing the damn plants to produce.  You have to shock the
plant into producing females and holding on to them.
I haven't cut back on my mains yet, but those bastards are growing 12" a
day and roaring their heads up high.

just a thought,
Bill Sadowski

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