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07 Feb 18, Rose (New Zealand - temperate climate)

My pumpkin snapped off the vine. It is very large but the vine is still healthy. What do i do with the pumpkin to ripen it

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08 May 18, Peter (New Zealand - temperate climate)

had the same problem early in last season I put the pumpkin in a warm dry place in the garden shed and was left for 3 months decided to cut it and was surprised to see a fresh not fully ripe but very edible pumpkin, warm shed and dry seems to work

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14 Sep 18, Mike (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)

Support the vine next time. If the vine had started to die back etc the pumpkin would have been ripe/mature - 5-6 mths old. If the plant had only been growing 3 mths then the pumpkin would be immature.

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23 Feb 18, Trudi (New Zealand - temperate climate)

I have lots of pumpkin flowers but only one pumpkin has formed. A friend mentioned male and female flowers. Can/should I remove flowers that aren't going to produce fruit?

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26 Feb 18, Mike (New Zealand - temperate climate)

If you go to the Australian - sub-tropical zone - there is quite a bit about this with pumpkin. Pumpkin produce male flowers first then they have female flowers, The female flower is only open for one day (until about mid day). No bees no pumpkin. So hand pollination is required. Take about two male flowers and rub the female flowers with it. Look up the internet on how to do it. This applies to zucchini, cues and melons also I believe.

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18 Mar 18, Margaret (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

How do you know when they are ready to harvest

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14 Sep 18, Mike (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)

Above it says 15-20 weeks to harvest. Take notice of when to plant and how long to harvest.

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10 Jan 19, Jacob (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

Wait till the plant dies before harvesting.

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08 Apr 18, Toni (New Zealand - temperate climate)

I have pumpkins that have come up in my garden .They came up in November and are white skins at the moment.I live in Rangiora North Canterbury.I don't know anything about growing them.Do I leave them in as long as possible as I don't know whether the frost or rain will affect them. Thankyou

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09 Apr 18, Jim (New Zealand - temperate climate)

Hi Toni you can stop watering your Pumpkins now. After you have a frost the leaves will die off. After the leaves die off you can harvest them any time now. Leave the stem on and store in a place with good air supply and sun to ripen. You can check the ripeness by knocking on them with your knuckles listen for a hollow sound which indicates ripe. Enjoy Jim

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