[sianb]

Our flowers keep falling off our pumpkin plants, any ideas??

[DD.]

Male ones maybe?

[sianb]

Thank,s for your reply DD. is thieir a diferrence between male and female flower,s.


Sian

[DD.]

Makes a difference to them! :oops:

Seriously, the male flower will only have a thin stalk behind it, whereas the female has a swelling - which is an embryonic fruit.

The male will fall off as a matter of course, as will early females.

[Cleo]

My pumpkin flowers all falling off also. I know it's early in the season but surely they should't all be falling off without any sign of fruiting.

I have now had four or five flushes of flowers and no fruit



Cleo

[Kate and her Ducks]

I have loads of flower buds and have done for weeks but no sign of them actually flowering. Was starting to think that even if they do flower and set it will be too late for them to grow and ripen?

[sianb]

Pleased to hear we r not the only 1s! Its the first time we have grown pumpkins so dont really know that much about them!! I just know everything in the garden is very late this year!

[sianb]

Thank,s for all your replys i think i may have a female pumpkin flower  hooray will keep you posted .

Sian

[FCG]

I've seen huge pumpkins grown within only 6 weeks, so don't worry about having time for them to ripen. You'll have them in time for halloween!