Pumpkins - Chop off some fruits?

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maddave

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Pumpkins - Chop off some fruits?
« on: July 23, 2014, 14:46 »
My one pumpkin plant which I have grown from a seed saved from a pumpkin bought from Tesco last October, is going great guns!

I have one 10 cm sized pumpkin, about 3 golf ball sized pumpkins and about 20 flowers with small bulbous growth, all looking like they will turn into pumpkins too!! I thought I would only get one fruit from one plant, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.

Should I cut off some of the fruits so that the all the energy of the plant is put into growth of the remaining fruits?

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Re: Pumpkins - Chop off some fruits?
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2014, 21:33 »
Depends how big you want them to be. Show growers grow one as the giant & another one as a safety valve to stop the first one exploding :ohmy:. You could leave a few for medium sized fruit & then stop them.
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