I see. I'm glad yours are looking better now!! Yeah, we get quite hot and humid here, too...I did get powdery mildew last year a bit, but it was later in the year when it was a bit less humid. With humidity, maybe you are right and it just depends on the extreme heat factor along with it...or, in contrast, too cool of temps. The only thing that seems to be true no matter where I read, is that humidity can cause the outbreak of the mildew, and dry leaves make it spread. After knowing that fact, reading some sites that said pumpkins like humidity just confused me, lol. I haven't encountered blossom rot yet...what is that, exactly?
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I would love to see pics if you have the time. Since we live in neighboring States, I would like to see how my guys are comparing to your plants. I read on the Univ. of Florida agriculture website that Big Max is a good pumpkin variety to plant in humid environments. So, I backed into some luck there.
Going outside to clean the koi fish filters. I have read that fish waste is a good fertilizer which makes sense because if you overfeed koi you end up with high nitrate levels in your pond water. I plan on scraping the collected filter muck into a large bucket, fill it with water, and voila- instant plant booster. Then again maybe not, but it feels good to think you have a secret ingrediant.
Thanks for the pics, your plants are much larger than mine, when you did you plant your seeds? Gotta love that Georgia clay, or in your case Alabama clay. At least clay drains well.
Omgoodness! I was just outside beginning the trellising of my in ground JBL vine, and I just found a tiny, itsy bitsy baby pumpkin/ female flower bud! It seems quite early to see one on my young plant...or so I thought. Pretty cool!
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The storms have muddied and beat up this poor plant, but it's still going strong! I just realized my main vine on this one is growing in the opposite direction of my trellis, so it ought to be a super fun chore to tie it up and train it to go the way I need it to...not to mention, the rest of the secondary vines will also be going the wrong direction...which will be a bigger issue, because those are supposed to be growing along the ground out front of the main vine and are now looking like many of them will want to grow out towards the garage wall. This will be interesting...
The storms have muddied and beat up this poor plant, but it's still going strong! I just realized my main vine on this one is growing in the opposite direction of my trellis, so it ought to be a super fun chore to tie it up and train it to go the way I need it to...not to mention, the rest of the secondary vines will also be going the wrong direction...which will be a bigger issue, because those are supposed to be growing along the ground out front of the main vine and are now looking like many of them will want to grow out towards the garage wall. This will be interesting...
i will have to ask my hubby on the exact date.. i was also surprised that they are this big this early.. according to the pkg.. it should have taken a lot longer for anything to put on the vine.. which is i planted early ( i thought).. we just had a gourd to start showing up and flowers are now bloomed out on the vines..i will post pics from the ipad tomorrow..Thanks for the pics, your plants are much larger than mine, when you did you plant your seeds? Gotta love that Georgia clay, or in your case Alabama clay. At least clay drains well.
So far behind this year as far as sharing. I did finally get the patch planted a couple weeks back. Weather has been a pain. A lot of rain and humidity. Between that and work it's been a bit of a chore keeping up with weeding. The patch itself is doing good. I also have a huge volunteer from the compost bin.
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Are we all growing pumpkins? I am amazed at how member's plants are growing differently. My guys are only about 8 inches tall, but they are starting to produce flowers. They appear to be male flowers. I am nervous that I seem to be the only pumpkin grower whose pumpkin plants have not turned into vines. But they appear healthy otherwise, and it has only been about 6 weeks since germination. But I am a little jealous of those pics that show two and three foot vines. Below is a pic of a typcial plant in my patch.
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I am amazed at how member's plants are growing differently. My guys are only about 8 inches tall, but they are starting to produce flowers. They appear to be male flowers. I am nervous that I seem to be the only pumpkin grower whose pumpkin plants have not turned into vines. But they appear healthy otherwise, and it has only been about 6 weeks since germination. But I am a little jealous of those pics that show two and three foot vines. Below is a pic of a typcial plant in my patch.
Well, it depends on the variety of pumpkin/gourd, I suppose, on what shape of vine it will be. (There are even bush and semi bush types that have more compact shapes than long vines.) What type of pumpkin are you growing, again? I can't remember. I will say, I have never seen a pumpkin plant with no vines but lots of flowers. It could also be the type of nutrients in your soil...some nutrients help the production of flowers and others help the growing of vines. (I can't remember which is which off hand, though...you'd have to research it.) You may have tons of one and too little of the other?? Just a possibility. Hopefully your vines will start soon...if you do, in fact, have a vine type. In the meantime, at least the early sprouting of male flowers will lead the bees to your patch sooner, which could lead to more bees knowing where your patch is by the time the female blooms appear. The more bees, the better!!Are we all growing pumpkins?
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Yeah, all depends on variety.
Here's our garden today.
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The Lil Pumpkemon variety I planted, planning to trellis, isn't interested in forming vines at all, at least yet. And it's got female flowers right down at the base! Might be a bush pumpkin for all I know (though it didn't say so on the seed packet.
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Female flower on a neon pumpkin, they start yellow and quickly turn orange, so easy to spot.
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Here's our garden today.
The Lil Pumpkemon variety I planted, planning to trellis, isn't interested in forming vines at all, at least yet. And it's got female flowers right down at the base! Might be a bush pumpkin for all I know (though it didn't say so on the seed packet.
Female flower on a neon pumpkin, they start yellow and quickly turn orange, so easy to spot.
Okay, here's my three JBL's today:
This is my in ground one that I'm beginning to trellis:
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This is one of my container ones (with a small pot of some young sage next to it):
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...and this is my other container one, which looks like a different color (because it was in the shade when I took the pic), but it's actually the same as the others:
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They are all doing great and, as of today, ALL have baby females on them!!!!! I'm hoping some of the males bloom before the females do!
This is my in ground one that I'm beginning to trellis:
This is one of my container ones (with a small pot of some young sage next to it):
...and this is my other container one, which looks like a different color (because it was in the shade when I took the pic), but it's actually the same as the others:
They are all doing great and, as of today, ALL have baby females on them!!!!! I'm hoping some of the males bloom before the females do!
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