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05 Feb 19, Mike (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)

Put some curry in it to give it some taste. lol

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03 Feb 19, Mike (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)

Check with your neighbour next time. Next time wait until the stem has become hard and woody. About 16-20 weeks after seeds germinate.

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22 Jan 19, Sal (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)

I have 3 healthy pumpkins growing on the vine but the new baby ones are going yellow and dying. What causes this?

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22 Jan 19, Liz (New Zealand - temperate climate)

They are going yellow and dying because they have not been pollinated. Try using a soft small paint brush, or something similar, to transfer some pollen from a 'male' flower (one without a tiny pumpkin behind it) to a 'female' flower - one with a tiny pumkin behind it.

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23 Jan 19, Sal (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)

Thanks for that, I assumed that if a pumpkin formed it must have been pollinated.

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28 Feb 19, Mike (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)

The female flowers are only open for 1 day and usually closed by lunch. Have to be on the ball to pollinate them.

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22 Jan 19, Mike (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)

Or break off a male flower and peel back the flower part, then rub the female flower with the male part. Make sure the male has pollen on it by testing with your finger. Even do this with 2-3 male flowers.

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04 Dec 18, Robyn (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

I live in Te Anau and wonder what is a faster maturing pumpkin variety?? We had a good crop of pumpkins growing last year, but a rogue frost in mid March killed off the plant and the pumpkin crop did not ripen, and the weather is only coming good now (early Dec) to plant.

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05 Dec 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Look around some seed selling companies - email or phone them. Most times I see like 15-20 weeks to grow but which is early I don't know. Another way is to start the seeds early indoors or somewhere protected from the weather. You could start growing them in Oct say under lights. Sometimes nature throws us a big curve ball and stuffs it all up.

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09 Dec 18, (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

thanks

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