On 5 Sep, 20:26, tina wrote:
How are the leaves?
The leaves are quite big & green, with prickles on them.
Is there plenty of air circulating around the pumpkins?
Yes I think so.
Do you have more fruits going?
Just 1 marble sized one at the moment.
And did you give them lots of beer ;o)
Beer. No. I Didnt realise i had to. I have given them some ckicken poo
pellets & seaweed powder, but no beer.

Well, they're roting and it is a bit puzzling. If the leaves are
lovely, I just can't think, but best to get rid of the fruits just in
case. One more question: were they resting on the ground - and is it
very soggy, wet, muddy ...? It makes a big difference when you sow/
transplant your pumpkins - too early and the ground isn't warm enough
- too late and you don't get enough bees to polinate. Your first fruit
should have appeared at the beginning of July after a lot of leaves.
If you didn't get a fruit then it's because they haven't pollinated
successfully. You probably got a male flower but the female flower was
too late perhaps (easy recognisable by the little fruit behind the
flower and the male have a stamen covered of pollen) - sounds that it
might well have been the case and you got the fruits but they don't
develop, rot and drop.

When your fruits are right, they start growing rapidly and you can see
that your vines need support. I use bricks to help the vine to stay
straight. If by now you haven't seen any of this - you won't get any
pumpkins this year.

As for the beer, it's true, and it works - though I think it's a waste
of good ale ;o)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/3227455.stm