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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 4:45:42 PM
I have about 6 already orange pumpkins on my vines!!! They are quite large. I dont want them to rot but it seems to early to pick them! How long can they stay on the vines?
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 12:11:47 PM
No prob michelle! I am new to pumpkins this year and all of my vines made a little pumpkin that quickly rotted and fell off the vine. After that first one the rest have grown perfectly! I dont know if that is "normal" but thats what happened to me.
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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 09:00:51 AM
Hope you don't mind if I tag another pumpkin question on here. :) What would cause a baby pumpkin to spontaneously pop itself off the vine? I wonder what I'm doing wrong/why it didn't stay on to mature? I still have others, but are they going to do the same thing? These are maybe small ping-pong sized and yellow. Leaves look healthy. Plants growing like crazy now.
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| prairie_princess |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 08:36:50 AM
i've read you can leave pumpkins on the vine for as long as it starts to frost... they don't go bad if you leave them on the vine. i think they last a long time even if you pick them and leave them somewhere fairly cool.... i picked quite a few last year and they lasted months before i got to them to cook them down.
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| Marybeth |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 9:37:01 PM
Yep, just leave them until the vines die. If you are worried about the part on the ground you could turn them occasionally. MB
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 7:33:13 PM
until the vines die. I end up picking mine sooner, though, since we have a real grasshopper problem some years. I don't have any bigger than a golf ball on our pumpkin vines yet..lots of high hopes though.
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