Growing Huge Pumpkin Plants But Can't Sustain Female Flowers - Help!
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2018
- We grow huge, vigorous pumpkin plants but our female flowers turn yellow and pop off before they can open up and can have a shot at being pollinated. Big pumpkin plants, but no pumpkins. Help!
Here's my suggestions: keep the pumpkin vines consistently well hydrated and nourished (water deeply twice a day). Feed twice a week at half strength (organic or synthetic nutes), make sure you feed them magnesium, calcium and when starting to fruit Potassium and phosphorus (all flowers/fruit/berries need P and K to form correctly). Once the fruiting flowers start to form keep them directly off the ground and if very hot (over 85F) try and keep them shaded especially during the heat of the day. Most Pumpkins also need a minimum of 6 hours direct light...8 or more is better (check to see what your variety needs).
Powdery and downy mildew interfere with the plants ability to process sunlight and has the same effect as starving the plant. Keep these diseases in check the best you can. Good luck 👍😉
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All you have to do is cut off the main
branch at about 8th feet of the creeper when it grows upto 9 feet..The secondary branches coming out will bloom female flowers 💐🙂..I'm from India 🇮🇳
I'm having the same dang problem and I'm so aggravated been watching dozens of videos googleing how to fix and I've just about given up cus now anything that does finally pollinate good will only have like 60 days to grow
How/what u learn? I must be knowing !
Wow! Time flies. Been 4.5 years since I put this video out. Kids are older so have a little more time to breathe. Lots of harvesting has been done, but I've avoided pumpkins due to the limited space we have... but I think I'm going to give it a go again this year and I'll definitely cover a lot more items of how we pull our gardening together each year. Never honestly expected this video to get so many views and comments, but THANK YOU all. Some good questions, good tips and suggestions in there. Pretty sure we had a mixture of challenges holding us back. This year we'll tackle a number of them and see how we come out.
This may be a calcium issue. When theres not enough calcium in the soil the females just fall right off
Good thought and I’m definitely taking it into account. I’ll have an update on this year’s plant shortly. The vine seems to prefer to start and sustain female flowers outside of the raised bed. The bed is a custom compost and pete soil mix, that has little to no too soil or clay in it. Plus I was always afraid to fertilize after the plant was established. So some change here is probably in order. Thanks for the idea!
It's super hot where I am it's about 80-90 degrees what should I do to prevent my pumpkins from falling of?
You can harvest and eat the make flowers and eat the leaves.
Thank you for this. Love ya! Love supporting other small youtubers! Xoxox
It’s just too hot for the plant.
I live in the Pacific Northwest and it has been hotter here than I can remember. It’s the first time I’ve had this same problem.
The vines should be around ten feet so it has enough energy to produce. Just leave the plant if it’s healthy and it will produce “fruits” when it cools down a bit. The ones I have under shade cloth are doing fantastic.
I’m also battling squash bugs on ALL of my squash Except butternut. 😖
I pray for patience until the cool weather and bugs stop laying eggs. 🥴
Thanks!
Try building up a large mound for them to cascade from the peak of, thus allowing them to install more nodal roots in good growth media
How I grow pumpkins is, when you first plant them they need lots of nitrogen so get a fertilizer which has a high nitrogen number (use as much nitrogen as the company recommends because nitrogen will also burn and kill the roots if you use too much), the nitrogen makes it grow faster and keeps the leaves green, then when you start seeing male flowers start using a phosphorus based fertilizer and slowly stop with the nitrogen, the phosphorus makes the plant produce more flowers, then when the female flowers start to come true switch to a potassium based fertilizer, this makes the fruit swell and grow better, it also makes the fruit hold more nutrients. I would recommend a "Sulfate of Potash" fertilizer for the stage of the pumpkin in the video.
If the female flower blossoms then i would recommend to hand polinate it because if there isnt enough bees around the female flower will die off like it is in the video.
We just started our channel. We have a pumpkin plant that has grown exponentially. Just got some powdery mildew on the leaves trying to stay on top of it with the neem oil. Cool channel best of luck you have another sub!
I have male flowers, no females have come up yet and they just keep falling off or something is biting them off. I've counted 6 already and now I'm down to 1! Idk what to do to save them.
Just ask Google the question why are my male pumpkin flowers falling off, or ask RUclips. U will find the answers. I did
Or, you know, you could cite him a link... Seeing as how I'm here as well, with the same problem, and that is exactly what I typed into RUclips, and now I'm here... See the problem yet, Bud?
@@StanHowse That's the thing, there isn't a single link to a video which explains the answer. I had to piece together bits of information from multiple sources to figure out the answer.
For me the answer was the heat. It had simply been too hot for the female flowers to start being produced. Apparently female flowers typically don't sprout during high temps. You just have to be patient and you should start seeing female flowers after the temp start to dip.
If the temperature isnt too hot then the problem could be the soil. You may need to add bone meal, blood meal, or ash to fertilize your soil and get it the proper nutrients as pumpkin plants need a lot of nutrients. You can use whatever fertilizer you want but I prefer fertilizers with no chemicals AKA natural. I used a mushroom compost when I planted my pumpkin plants and so they had all the nutrients they could need. I did end up adding a little bone meal when it was super hot because I was unsure which I believe helped.
Another variable are insects. Watch for areas on your leaves which have been eaten and check underneath for bugs. I found that sunflower beetles were eating on my leaves, and stink bugs although they were not eating the leaves, they were causing the pumpkin plant to die. Once I got rid of the stink bugs the pumpkin plants started to flourish again.
Good luck and hope this helps.
I'm having the same issue and I planted on time for my area and have fed it at least 3xs. I am dealong with vine borers and mildew, which I thought i could see on your yellowing leaves. I'd really love to figure out the issue.
It was too hot!!!! Need 80# 85 an up too hot. Also grab some starter fertilizer 😉
I had beautiful vines, and tons of male flowers on all of them. Out of 20 plants, I got ONE EFFING PUMPKIN! 👿
Take Some of the male flowers off and it tells the plant to produce more female that’s what I did and it worked
Take some of the male flowers off it tells the plant to produce more female flowers that’s what I did and it helped
Well at least u had one pumpkin. Maybe you'll get a lot of pumpkins one day. I'm planting mine pumpkin plants before next spring and summer hits
I also grow corn and beans with it. They complement each other as far as soil quality
Corn and pumpkin help eachother alot
Did you figure this out ? What worked in the end ?
Your plant is under stress. It's fighting off the mildew which means less energy for your female blooms. I haven't buried my stem at all on my rival jack and it already has a pumpkin and another female getting ready to bloom
It's a calcium issue.
The vine is to long. I keep mine around 9ft.
if he is growing a true giant the fines can easily reach 20 ft and they should
Interesting thought. I’m assuming you are pruning them to keep them that length? Does this cause stress to the vine being cut?
xCerebralSnipesX I’ll double check the type, but I am pretty sure they are not truly a giant, unless it’s a variant.
Hey, I noticed you only have one video uploaded 2 years ago. Yet you have 23 subs and a few thousand views on the one video. I’m sure finding the timing isn’t so cut and dry. I’d definitely check out more of your videos and share them if you decided to pick it back up. All the best to you and family.
He’s not saying come on guy ! I had a nice harvest last year
Mine's looking the same, probably 10' wide and spreading 8-10" per day, high 90's daily here in ABQ. Lots of male flower, no fruit. What about manually pollinating and to the first comment... why is your plant "very sick"? Thank you for any and all replies!
I have the same problem. The female will make the fruit but the blooms are staying very small and do not open up. So I can't hand pollinate. And within just a couple of days they fall off. Also, I watched many videos on growing them and a lot of people are saying to keep the vines cut back to about 7-10 ft. If they grow longer than that, the plant doesn't have the strength to sustain the fruit.
Could be totally wrong here and more of a tip than help but I’ve found my females only open up from around 6:30-8am. As soon as the temp starts rising, the female curls right up. If I want out for in the early morning and had seen them open, I would have thought they never even opened by their appearance. Hope that helps!
@@cmtroutdoors thanks for the advice. I have already pulled up my pumpkin vines. My problem was that the pumpkin would set, have a small green bloom, but before the bloom could ever start to unfold the pumpkin would start turning yellow, dry up and fall off. I ended up with two pumpkins out of the six vines I planted. I guess I am not a pumpkin farmer. LOL. But honestly, all of my vegetables grew very strangely this year. Everyone I have talked to has told me that their gardens have not done well this year.
@@dionbarber7077 totally agree. Pumpkins and corn growing great here while my tomatoes and carrots struggle. One of those years I suppose!
🎃 Pumpkin....I thought I was getting at least 20. Big plant with 6 produce. I mix our soil with 🐄 manure. I think you had a bad seed. Doing my thing as the Marketing Curator for Lux Travel on RUclips
It could be weather. Maybe too hot?
3:44 nice tomatoes 🍅 my pumpkin flowers grow too small & never produced fruit 😞😞
I'm with same frustration and looking for videos seeking some advice.
There's a number of possibilities, which is why I posted this video in the first place. I have honed in on three primary reasons: 1. pH of our water and soil. 2. Nutrients in the soil and how well the vine rooted into the soil to get those nutrients. 3. I believe I planted my vine too late, leading to the flowers trying to start up when it was already too hot. Going to change all three of these factors before next year.
Any luck this year?
COVID shut our livelihoods down, this year, and yet also increased our workload immensely. We fell behind on the garden and ended up pairing back to only grow Tomatoes, Jalapenos, and Banana Peppers. We had great crops and ended up doing a lot of canning, this year. We also had a good year in our strawberry patch. But we did not try pumpkins, in 2020.
@@benkrasner473 Very cool
Why do female and male flowers bloom at different times. I simply cannot pollinate Them as I cannot find a male flower at the same time.
get male flower. Use Q.tip rub the pollen and store both in zip lock bag. Wait for female flowe to open then hand pollinate.
@@sar9907 thank you
@@malasubasinghe9904did it work?
Did he reply @@irinakabo7835
Do you need two separate plants to have female and male flowers grow ?
No you don't
Also your plant was verey sick
It’s to hot put A tarp over the flower