2006-10-06 08:33:56 · 7 answers · asked by Alison T 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Decorating & Remodeling
In some areas, there has been too much rain fall. This causes the pumpkins to rot on the vine. In other areas, there has been a shortage of rainfall causing a small crop of pumpkins. We are in the south and have had little rainfall. Not much pumpkin crop here.
2006-10-06 08:44:54 · answer #1 · answered by bugear001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just seen it on the computer news, It's called "Pumpkin Rot" and there may be a shortage of punpkins.
2006-10-06 08:52:02 · answer #2 · answered by obac777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Halloween lovers hoping to create the perfect jack-o-lantern might want to shop carefully this year because of a pumpkin fungus that has put a dent in some crops.
Two types of fungus or rot have affected crops from the Midwest to New England, causing pumpkins to develop mold in some spots and then begin decomposing, said Daniel Egel, a Purdue University Extension plant pathologist. The entire inside of the pumpkin eventually rots until the shell falls apart.
A combination of high temperatures and record rain in August has helped the fungi flourish, Egel said.
Nina Kent, co-owner of Kent's Cucurbits in White County, said one variety of her pumpkins has about 85% loss because of the rot.
"We really didn't know until we went out and started picking around the 17th of September," she said. "It's as if they're rotting from the inside out."
The rot has also hit Purdue University's Meigs Farm in Lafayette. Karen Rane, a plant disease diagnostician, turned over a pumpkin and the underside collapsed in her hands.
2006-10-06 11:37:59 · answer #3 · answered by Luke J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Could also be due to the fact where all the hurricanes from last year traveled through. Here in the South, once a bad hurricane past through, even if its not a season of crops, it messes with the soil texture. Sometimes it takes awhile for the soil to get worked on and get back adjusted from the damage. Check which states all these past through and if they didn't have any other events, like flooding or drought.
2006-10-06 08:53:56 · answer #4 · answered by Angie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they planted less pumpkins this year than last year.
2006-10-06 08:57:56 · answer #5 · answered by david 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
too much water at the start of the season.. Many fields were'nt planted as early as normal
2006-10-06 08:37:58 · answer #6 · answered by wellaem 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know but I'm glad I grew mine this year.
2006-10-06 08:39:38 · answer #7 · answered by Sleep deprived 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋