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oldmanchris Posts: 1 |
Oversized Pumpkin Leaves and Tiny Fruit Posted 774 days ago I am new to pumpkin growing. Sometime in October I planted Bush Nugget Pumpkins in our vegie garden. The leaves are now enormous and the fruit are tiny and have not grown past the size of a large strawberry. They then rot and fall off. There are flowers on the plant and I have fertilized the soil with decomposed pig manure and occasional Seasol. Can anyone suggest what might have gone wrong? |
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BigDave Posts: 2 |
RE: Oversized Pumpkin Leaves and Tiny Fruit Posted 772 days ago Are the female flowers being fertilized if the bees aren`t doing their job you may have to do it. Also try some sulphate of potash to promote flowering. |
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Cody2o0 Posts: 6 |
RE: Oversized Pumpkin Leaves and Tiny Fruit Posted 764 days ago you might have been feed them with a high in nitrogen fertilizer so as BigDave said use potash and sulphate which you can easily get from Bunnings and garden centres and just to make sure that your female flowers are being polinated watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4T7iio5nV8 |
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BobbieJ Posts: 120 |
Oversized Pumpkin Leaves and Tiny Fruit Posted 757 days ago Water pumpkins at their roots and not on the leaves, reduces the fungal infections, mildew etc (is fungal and mildew the same :) ) |
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