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27 Jul 14, Pete (Australia - temperate climate)

I am told by a number of people around my area that I should only plant seed from a 'female' pumpkin. I understand each plant has both male and female flowers needed to produce fruit. Am I being fed a myth? All my efforts to find out the facts lead nowhere. Question-- can you sex a pumpkin?

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02 Aug 14, Roz (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Hi Pete, Garry is totally correct. The same plant produce both male and femail flowers.

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16 Aug 14, Sally (Australia - temperate climate)

Female pumpkins have a large circle formation an the base (finger tip and thumb tip to make a circle size) and the males have a small circle( 20 cent coin size)

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06 Oct 14, Karen (Australia - temperate climate)

All fruit is sort of "female". Like all species only the female produces offspring. So you can't get a male or female fruit for that matter. Male flower, yes, but not male fruit. It's the female flower that develops into a fruit after pollination by a male. As Gary said, someone was pulling your leg.

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22 Jun 14, Lorraine (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

My pumpkin plants are not dead they are sending out new strong branches with flower buds. Will I leave them in for next summer? Will they fruit next summer?.

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02 Apr 14, jenni (Australia - temperate climate)

at our community garden we are inundated with slaters.....they ate down to soil level 5 of the 6 pumpkin seedlings, approx 6inches long, that we have just planted. we need help please

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10 Apr 14, Steven (Australia - temperate climate)

I think slaters typically only eat decaying garden matter. My vegetable seedlings, including pumpkins, were being consistently eaten in my greenhouse this year. It took me a while to figure out that it was actually rats and mice. They were eating the seedlings, snail bait, and eventually Ratsak. Now they can't eat.

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06 Mar 14, Kyria (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I have planted "mini golden nuggets". I have noticed that on every inch of plant mainly under the leaves there are eggs EVERYWHERE!! All over the entire crop. Judging from pics they don't look like squash bugs I have no idea what they are or how to treat them... Any ideas? I live in Melbourne

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06 Mar 14, Mary Ann tatarskyj (Australia - temperate climate)

I planted one seed this year (variety unknown) but the vine is rampant. I have 4 pumpkins which seem to be going very well, but there are a lot of leaves and quite a number of flowers underneath these leaves. Should I remove some of the leaves to expose flowers to sun and bees? I'm a novice vege gardner. Thanks.

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21 Feb 14, gavin (Australia - temperate climate)

pumpkin vines gets fruit to approx 2 inches then rots & leaves turn yellow brown... have you a answer for this problem

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