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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: slippy fly on July 11, 2006, 20:53:30

Title: Big Pumpkin
Post by: slippy fly on July 11, 2006, 20:53:30
I have got a fairly large pumpkin on one plant and next to this fruit is 2 more more slightly smaller ones, if i wanted to grow 1 big fruit could i remove the 2 smaller ones so the plant produces an even bigger fruit?
Title: Re: Big Pumpkin
Post by: Mrs Ava on July 11, 2006, 22:43:06
Don't remove both extra fruits - just take off the smallest, just in case anything should happen to the first, otherwise you could be fruitless!  :o
Title: Re: Big Pumpkin
Post by: Tinkie_Bear on July 11, 2006, 22:44:18
Watching "The Big Dig" a couple of weeks ago and one chap said that he wished he'd removed the smaller pumpkins so the big one would have got bigger, I guess it depends if you want just 1 monster or several more managable size fruits.

Tinkie_Bear
Title: Re: Big Pumpkin
Post by: Sprout on July 12, 2006, 10:08:40
Did you pollinate the female flower by hand or did you leave it to mother nature?
Title: Re: Big Pumpkin
Post by: Squashfan on July 12, 2006, 13:02:27
I'd leave the one smaller one, just for insurance. Plus, even the small ones are edible...
Title: Re: Big Pumpkin
Post by: slippy fly on July 12, 2006, 16:21:59
I didnt touch any of my pumpkins and they are all fruiting well.I have decided this year to leave all three so my children and their friends can have them for halloween.
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