punkin questions?

[desertlady]

IM growing white pumkins, theres probably 10 on one vine! My question is someone wrote on a thread I lost, to make a bigger pumkin is to pick the flowers off, is that right? Do I pick the male flowers only or both female and male?

 

[catjac1975]

Wow great! I have never hod any luck with the whites! I would choose the three best looking pumpkins and cut off the rest. Make sure they are well spaced. I found them to rot before they are ripe. You can lift them up onto a plant pot with holes in it to get them off the ground. Good luck!

IM growing white pumkins, theres probably 10 on one vine! My question is someone wrote on a thread I lost, to make a bigger pumkin is to pick the flowers off, is that right? Do I pick the male flowers only or both female and male?

 

[desertlady]

Thank you !!

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

at this late in the season i would pop off any more flowers, both male and female and just let those remaining pumpkins keep growing. the smallest would probably die off the vine anyways so like Catjac says, keep the best looking left on the vine.

i just got my 1st white pumpkin from the vine this past week. got lots of Jack be Little too! squash bugs have been terrible here so i harvested those that looked done.

 

[catjac1975]

I'm not sure I would bother removing all the new flowers unless they are female. Opening a wound along the vine is just asking for disease. I personally just leave them be. However I found the whites to be very hard to bring to maturity so removing so many fruit will help those remaining.