This spring, pumpkin plants started growing. I wouldn't let my hubby pull them...hoping for a nice crop of pumpkins for this fall. I got about a dozen pumkins. One turned out beautifully. (Was dark green, then turned bright orange.) The others all started out a cream color, and ended up being a melon color. Could they all have crossed with something else? They are definetely pumpkins, just an odd color! Just wondering...and just a little disappointed!
2006-09-25 14:56:09 · 5 answers · asked by momof3pups 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
It most lokely had nothing to do with what you did. Last year's pumpkin was in all likelyhood a hybrid. Nonhybridized pumpkins are extremely rare. Anyway, when you plant the seeds of a hybrid it is unusual that you get much because most are sterile. The ones that do grow most of the time back-cross to one of the kinds of varieties that was used to make the hybrid. To get a good one means you beat the odds--at least on it. Next year get a package of new seeds and they'll all produce what you want.
2006-09-25 16:17:26 · answer #1 · answered by college kid 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lack of fertilizer, calcium, pumpkins need a 13-13-13 fertilizer and use household lime for calcium, better next year, Boooo!
2006-09-25 15:01:18 · answer #2 · answered by edgarrrw 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great.. I have an idea.. why don[t you set up a sign and sell pumpkins about one week prior to halloween??
2006-09-25 15:26:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are hybrid pumpkins. Try again next year
2006-09-26 09:36:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They probably just crossed with another squash type plant.
2006-09-25 16:14:51 · answer #5 · answered by farmgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋