Pumpkins - size???????

Question

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is that a good size? i live in the south of england, is this a good size will they be ready in time for halloween?

Answer 1

To make them grow bigger, pull off some of the pumpkins that are little off and that will make the other ones grow bigger and faster.

Good luck.

Answer 2

it's a fine flower, but it's not the size of the flower that matters, it's the nutrients, amount of sunlight and warmth as well as how many pumpkins you allow to grow.  If you limit it to one per stringer, then the one on the stringer gets all of the plant's nutrition that goes to that section and you get a larger pumpkin.  The flowers are difficult to pollinate, so if you don't have a pumpkin bud in a few days, cut it off.  The plant will continue to bloom into the fall, but will not produce fruit on most of the flowers because they don't polinate.  There are girl flowers and boy flowers, the girls have a bulb at the base, the boys do not.  Take a paint brush (small one) and run it on the inside of the boy flower first thing in the morning when they open and pollinate the female flower very delicately, taking care not to handle too much.  

Answer 3

Hmm...make sure that little flower gets pollinated.  It looks rather small to me and pumpkins are such slow growers.

But it won't hurt to try.  You should get a fruit that's bowling ball size by late October.

Pumpkins are some of the slowest growing squash.