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I've never grown pumpkins before and need help please!  Over the last week or so have noticed lots of lovely flowers ready to open some with tiny pumpkins behind.  Have been following the threads here so was ready to lend a hand with pollination to be sure of getting some big beasties - managed to pollinate one yesterday, or so I thought....went down today and the little green pumpkin had become a little yellow pumpkin with a rotting flower end :'( 

What did I do wrong ???  Could it have been cos of the heavy rain last night??  Am I doomed to a gloomy halloween??  :-*

im not expert but i think you might find its normal.My fruits are a pale yellow and the flower does wither and die at the end of the fruit.I hope yours turn out fine.

thanks for that slippy fly, the flower has withered and died but the area around it looks bruised and rotten...... just have to wait and see I guess  :)

I would worry more if the stem (where the fruit joins the bush)  looked at all off.

Mike

Quote; went down today and the little green pumpkin had become a little yellow pumpkin with a rotting flower end

I am no expert pumpkin grower, although I do grow them. I tend to leave the sexy bits to the local wildlife.

If I have done any manual mating I generally stick the the phallic male into the female orifice and leave it to get on with it, both parts then just die off.

Regarding the flower dying I see this as a sign of a successful mating.

Don't Pumpkins have an exciting life? :o

I'd just leave it to the local fauna - It's their job!  I've got some lovely pumpkins coming on my patch and all down to the wee beasties :)

My pumpkins have stayed green although they are getting bigger. Is ths normal?