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27-08-2005, 12:17 PM

said:

Hi,

Well we finally have a little pumpkin starting. It's about the size of
a plum but seems very healthy. I noticed that this one was bigger than
the other females that failed to start even before the flower opened.
Seems like a lot of female flowers are starting to show up now.

Still plenty of growing time left so hopefully we will get a nice
pumpkin.

How many pumpkins should I allow to grow on one vine? I don't care
about growing a giant but I would like a good size pumpkin we can use
for halloween.

I agree with the other Steve, let the plant decide. They normally set
a certain number of fruit (the limit of what the plant can support under
its growing conditions) and abort the rest.

(Of course if you were growing giant pumpkins for competition, you
would have a bunch of vines and limit prune off to only one per plant.
The plants will keep trying to set just one more fruit and that would
make a difference if you were going for super-giant pumpkins.)

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