My Wumpkin?
Hi folks
I am living in the Sacramento area of California and new to pumpkin growing. This year I bought some seeds from Howard Dill and planted them following most of the guidelines I found on the internet for growing "big hummers." When it came to pollinating, though, I simply let the bees do their business. I figured that there weren't any neighbors for about a mile around that planted pumpkins this year, so mine would probably self pollinate. So now I have to ask the question to all the non-rookies out there...
...is it possible for my pumpkin to have cross pollinated with my watermelon growing only 15 feet away? My "pumpkin" has to be over 100 pounds, but its dark green with light green stripes, just like a watermelon! We have been calling it the "wumpkin."
I actually like my plant; its quite novel! I just have to know if my wumpkin is really 1. a pumpkimelon, 2. a strange squash (meaning Mr. Dill blew it when he sent me seeds from a 900+# pumpkin), or 3. a major freak of nature.
Does anybody know what is growing in my garden??
Toby
If you email me directly, I can "invite" you to view a couple pictures of my plant that I posted on ofoto.com. Email me at mr-sprout@sbcglobal.net (ofoto requires that you invite people using individual email addresses)
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