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Post by shoegirl on Aug 14, 2010 0:49:12 GMT -5
I have been scanning my pumpkin patch for a couple months now and no pumpkins:( There have been so many flowers on my plant too. Pumpkins are suppose to be soooo easy to grow. I have never had any trouble growing them before we moved to this place. There is a new resident snake in my pumpkin patch. Eik, I'm not pleased..
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Post by sunfrog on Aug 14, 2010 10:45:18 GMT -5
Do you has bees Shoey? You can pollinate the pumpkins yourself with a cotton swab. I've done it before. I grew ghost pumpkins.
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Post by shoegirl on Aug 14, 2010 11:07:08 GMT -5
There are lots of bees in other parts of teh yard, but have yet to see any in my pumpkin patch..
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Post by Frito Freddie on Aug 14, 2010 21:00:04 GMT -5
I've grown pumpkins too . . . the kids like to pick them themselves on Halloween and they like to watch the tiny pumpkins. Anyways, the hotter it is, the worse your chances are of getting pumpkins. If its too hot . . . I put them under light fabric tents. The plants can be stressed. Pumpkins like a lot of water. Could be under-watered. Add extra phosphorus. Or they weren't pollinated! IF the tiny fruit attached to the female flowers fall off, no pollination happened. Female Flower --- got that teeny little fruit The male flower has the pollen.
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Post by shoegirl on Aug 16, 2010 13:22:38 GMT -5
I think it's time to try self pollination. I am tierd of waiting for a pumpkin to form, and a watermelon to form out in the garden. The bees cannot be depended on. Time to take matters into my own hands..
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Post by dragrat on Aug 16, 2010 20:01:48 GMT -5
Maybe its a serious case of not enough bees in your area... I hear bees are becoming an endangered spices in some parts of the world... I have no facts to support my claim, but maybe someone does know.
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Post by shoegirl on Aug 16, 2010 20:27:20 GMT -5
Maybe its a serious case of not enough bees in your area... I hear bees are becoming an endangered spices in some parts of the world... I have no facts to support my claim, but maybe someone does know. Well there are tons of bees in the large flower garden at the other end of the yard! They can be found on almost every lavender flower out there at all hours. They just haven't seemed to visit my pumpkin patch at all. I only seemed to get one female flower though I think and it has long since fallen off. I'm hope there was/is more then one and I am mistaken.. That is also the one and only place I have seen a snake (twice) this year in the yard, so I don't get to close to my pumpkin patch that often (I hate snakes with a passion).
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Post by sunfrog on Aug 26, 2010 2:17:39 GMT -5
I did a search on what to plant in August and the internet said broccoli and cabbage. I don't want to eat either of those things but I guess beggars can't be choosers in the end of days. Maybe I will plant some. The internet also said October is the time to plant veggie seeds here in Tucson. Huh. I never knew that. I always wait til spring to plant. Maybe that's why all my crops have failed. I did a search for non GMO seeds and found a place here in town but they don't have potatoes. Potatoes are full of vitamins.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Aug 26, 2010 2:23:54 GMT -5
Plant this hamstur! Waaahhhhh!
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Post by Avril on Aug 27, 2010 8:39:14 GMT -5
You know, that's pretty much how I feel about broccoli, too. But I would share mine with a baby hamster, nonetheless.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Aug 27, 2010 9:39:54 GMT -5
Whut, you nibble delicately on your back while flailing your feets about? Hurmmmm ...
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Post by Frito Freddie on Sept 6, 2010 15:08:17 GMT -5
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Post by PigsnieLite on Sept 6, 2010 15:13:36 GMT -5
Eeeeeeee. kinda makes my skin crawl! Especially those first ones!
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Post by shoegirl on Sept 6, 2010 16:12:12 GMT -5
Those are not real plants are they?
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Post by Avril on Sept 6, 2010 17:12:40 GMT -5
Wow, awesome! How brilliant!
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