[gypsy]

Hi  my jack o lantern pumpkins are doing fine but my atlantica has only had male flowers. Have I been doing something wrong? fed with chicken pellets when 1st planted, had weekly feed of comfrey since.

[mumofstig]

There have been a lot of posts about this problem lately, so I think it must have been made worse by the weird weather we've had

Lots of cucumber/courgette/squash/pumpkin plants have a flush of male flowers and then the female ones start, so I think yours should do the same, but it is getting a bit late now 
There's nothing you can do to alter what is happening though

[gypsy]

Thankyou, that is what I thought but wanted 2nd opinion. Far too late to get a pumpkin on it now.CC

[sunshineband]

What a shame 

Glad the others are OK though 

[Salmo]

When do pumpkins and squashes need to have fruit formed to have a decent chance of ripening? In other words, when do you start pinching the tips out and stopping new fruit forming?

[gypsy]

OK do not rub it in! you need to stop fruit coming and I have not got any.
I usually do not let more than 2 pumpkins mature on one stem. I leave small squash to their own devices. No doubt others will say different, give me 10 gardeners and you will get 11 answers.