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If I want the pumpkin plant to put all its efforts in to one large fruit, do I let the first flower it produces develop and nip the rest out?

If this is the case do you just let the growing tip (hopefully you catch my drift) go where it wants and keep nipping the buds out as it goes? After all, if it can trail 30ft is that just greenery with no purpose?  ???

You'll need a pollinated female flower; wait till you get fruit growing, and nip out all but two, allowing a backup in necessary. let the foliage grow; the larger the plant, the more energy it has to put into fruit.

Some people suggest letting 6 leaves develop after the fruit then remove the growing shoot.I have never done it.

I am letting a few baby pumpkins develop , and then nipping out all but the best 2. I will be leaving the plant grow as much as it wants, hoping that all the energy created will go in to the developing pumpkins.

But then again, this is the first time for me :-\

cj :)