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  • Shrivelling Pumpkins

    There's plenty of green foliage and the plants are setting lovely little yellow fruits, but when they get to golf ball size they are shrivelling up and falling off. I didn't have this problem last year - what's up?
    Granny on the Game in Sheffield

  • #2
    Sounds as though they've not been fertilised Flo. Have you got mummy and daddy flowers?

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    • #3
      get your paintbrush out and poke around in the male and female flowers, use some from male courgette flowers if you haven't any on your squash.

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      • #4
        Same issue here - not been pollinated were my thoughts too - last year I hand pollinated - but still had loads anyway, so just leaving them to get on with it this year.

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        • #5
          it's getting on a bit though...I'd probably have been better off hand pollinating the first squash instead of the now precariously balanced ones on the frame...you live and learn....

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          • #6
            True. I did have some squash that were pollinated in August reach a fine size last year mind. fingers crossed! If not, they're great at weed supression

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            • #7
              ::breaks off from Eric Bana marathon::Same problem here, Flo. I've done the whole paintbrush/cotton bud thing as well, so I'm not sure what the deal is. Don't know whether it is over or under watering, either.
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              • #8
                Doh! Of course, I should have realised. Better get out there with the paintbrush. Thing is, I didn't have to last year and got beautiful big fat pumpkins!
                Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                • #9
                  Hi Florence,

                  I looked back to last August in my journal and I had noted that 2 or 3 of our pumpkins were pollinated mid August and they went on to be decent sized fruit, ripe and ready for Halloween. So get dabbing with that paintbrush

                  Reet
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                  • #10
                    Might be worth feeding them with tomato feed as well. I had a few falling off mine, fed them with organic tomato food and now have 2 fruits swelling. I didn't do any hand pollinating though as we've plenty of bees, hoverflies ets around at the mo.

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