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Originally Posted by toocool4school  I decided to try my hand at growing a couple of pumpkin plants this year. I enjoy gardening, it's good for the soul.
One of my plants somehow got its main stem severed. I found the whole plant laying about ten feet down the bank from its original growing spot. An animal of some sort is my only explanation for what happened to the plant.
I wouldn't say I have a green thumb, however, I can usually get plants to grow. *wink* The yield and overall health of my plants aren't always the best. That comes from inexperience. I plan to get a lot more experienced in the coming years.
Hopefully this pumpking plant will produce some lovely bright orange Halloween pumpkins. It has some promising blooms on it so we shall see...
The first image below is of the plant that got its main stem severed. The second is of my surviving plant. The second plant looks droopy because I took the photo while it was baking in the mid-say sun.
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um...where's the pumpkin?
if it has been too cold or stressed out, pumpkins can commonly produce only male flowers. cucurbita, as the species is called, always produces male flowers first, and then if conditions are right, the female flowers come next, which is start of your pumpkins. which is how you have seeds everytime. if you chop those flowers at the right time you'll make seedless squashes and fruits. but it looses a lot of size.
they're supposed to be just about done right now actually, and I don't even see little tiny starts anywhere in your picture. I don't know where you live, I know if you live in the northern part you want to plant in may if possible, and in he much lower southern area's begin july
eitherway, I'm pretty sure you're suppose to have some kind of pumpkin starting by now.
happy gardening