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Re: Female Flowers

Hi Eric.

Potentially, any or all of the females could be pollenated and set fruit.
However, I would allow the vines to become much longer before setting any
fruit.  You can cut off the first females.  More will appear near the ends
of your vines as they grow.

As far as burying, I would also let the vines grow a bit before I did that.
I assume your vines are perhaps between 3 and 4 feet long as they were 25" a
few days ago.  I wouldn't bury any female flowers (unless you are cutting
them off that part of the vine anyway).  I'm not an expert on burying vines,
but I wait until the leaf joint I'm burying has put out a side shoot that is
perhaps 8" or more in length and a large thick tendril is growing out of it.
I also leave the last 2 feet of vine unburied until it has fallen naturally
to the ground.

Kurt Frederick

At 10:12 AM 6/15/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Hi Kurt,
>	The shape of the ovaries are round and are about the size of a grape.
>They are yellow.  They have 5 sepals.  What's puzzling to me is the
>proximity of the flowers to the main root.  They are all within 20
>inches.  Where's the pumpkin going to set?  There's not enough room for
>a ton of pumpkin (hehehe) without smashing the plant.  I thought the
>flowers were suppose to be out at ten feet.  I buried most of the vines
>this morning, which brings me to another question.  These female flowers
>are real close to the vine and make it difficult to bury the vines
>without burying the flowers.  Is this normal?
>
>Eric
>Port Orchard, WA
>
>
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