Hi G-mom it appears to be natural. I was reading an article that said a harvest of 2 or 3 pumpkins per vine is a good harvest. But all the female pumpkin flowers start out with a little pumpkin. Does that sound right?

g-mom, the baby pumpkins will fall off when they haven't been pollinated well enough. But as long as you have 2 good ones on a vine, your'e fine. Too many on a vine, you'll just end up with mini pumpkins like I did.

Got any new pics??
Meg

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They look great g-mom!! Yea, try pollinating a few of them. Take a male flower, carefully remove the petals if you can (not necessary, but easier to pollinate without them), and move the male flower's center piece into the middle of the female flower. (You could even just leave the male flower piece stuck in the female flower too.) Worked great for me! (I had toooooo many pollinated then!) LOL. I had LOTS of bees too.

You can also take a q-tip and swipe pollen from the male flower, and put it on the female flower, but I don't think it works as well.

Meg

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Female flowers will have a little ball underneath them.. if they are pollenated well enough, the flower will eventually drop off, the the baby pumpkin underneath will start to grow. If it's not pollinated, the baby pumpkin will simply fall off.

Female flower-




Also a way to tell, is the male flower only has one piece in the center of the flower.. the female has about 5-6 pieces in the center of the flower.. that's what you want to pollenate, down in the middle of the flower.

Here's a good link to explain it more-
pumpkin nook - pollination

Meg

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That was a kewl read.I never found that when wondered which was my watermelon and which was my pumpkin.I finaly decided that being the pumpkin was 57 days and watermelon 90 it must be be pumpkin.I got 4 growing 1 has fell off and one didn't pollinate right so is yellowing.I'll play the sex game.I got a good rolling stone CD for that .I sowed 5 more seeds of pumpkin when started getting females open and will sow some more in July.
So how long till start growing do they turn orange?????????
oh I also get to grow 2 vines that will have slingshot hammocks for pumpkins developed above ground.1 so far.the other vine I may luck out and will return earthbound as female with the guys on top...hope she likes it. lol

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