Why won't Our pumpkins grow, but our neighbors do?

Question

For all the gardeners out there. Hi How are you. We planted pumpkin seed on June 5th of this year, we have vines up the waaazooo right now, Lots of buds and flowers but no pumpkins. Why arn't our flowers growing into pumpkins? I have also self-pollenated them. We also planted watermelon seeds around the end of June and still no watermelons either. We finally got a bud on it so, I'll wait and see about that one.Our neighbor planted watermelons, pumpkins, corn, etc. and they have fruit and veggies growing by the tons. Why won't ours grow?

Answer 1

Maybe your neighbor watered his plants differently from the way you did. Maybe you used more nitrogen. Too much nitrogen can delay the setting of fruit on the vine. Your neighbor could have hand pollinated his pumpkins differently.

Make sure you DON'T water overhead early in the morning so the male flowers can have a chance to pollinate the female flowers.
Male flowers are short lived. They will open up before dawn and will close completely by mid-morning.The male flowers possess both pollen and nectar, the female flowers only nectar. If the plants are watered from overhead early in the day, that may prevent all further pollination for that day. Everything gets washed off of the short-lived male flowers. Replacement flowers do not open then until the following morning.

When you do your own pollination, it will be more successful if several male flowers are used to pollinate one female flower. Pollination needs to be made to all segments of the female flower. Do this before 10 a.m. because pollination carried out at the end of the morning during warm weather has very little chance of success because the pollen will have heated up and fermented and will no longer be viable. At the bottom of the blossom of a female is a tiny vegetable or fruit (ovary). If the blossom is male there is nothing there. Here's a picture & instructions:
http://www.pumpkinnook.com/howto/pollen.htm

Your neighbor's garden might have been located to get more light than yours. Too much shade or not enough light is another cause of poor fruit set. Most fruiting vegetables do best in full sun all day --- they need at least 6 to 8 hours of sunlight.

Good luck! Hope this has been helpful.

Answer 2

some how, i don't understand how. You pumpkin plant existence weren't pollinated, and your acquaintances vegetation have been. indexed below are some motives why that could desire to be the respond: a million. you enjoyed those vegetation plenty, you saved a great sort of pesticide on them to keep off the undesirable bugs! that still killed of the pollinators, bees wasps, flies, butterflies and others. 2.some one else had already completed the killing, with pesticide sprays from abode backyard Care agencies, or huge corn fields. Or different huge fields below production. 3. If that replaced into the case, your neighbor all waiting knew there have been no pollinators and went out with a water shade paint brush and did his very own pollinating. 4.Pumpkin plant existence are available woman and male. Yup! the midsection of the flower the two seems very like a boy...AN OUTIE or very like a woman ...AN INNIE. you and your paint brush could desire to convey the pollen from the outie flower to the innie flower! and merely think of of what's organic for all species, start up POLLINATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

Pumpkins have male flowers and female flowers. Both have to be open to get the pollination to work. Sometimes the female flowers will fall off for various reasons like too much nitrogen or not enough sunlight. Here is a page with some good pumpkin questions and answers:
http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extnews/hortiscope/fruitveg/pmpkins.htm

Answer 4

There could be alot of reasons, what your feeding your plants could be part of it, how you prepared the soil before you planted, the amount of water they're getting, etc. They'll need alot of nutrition in order to grow, miracle grow really does do a good job, cut off some of the flowers so the nutrients go to fewer pumpkins, this will make them grow bigger, faster.

Answer 5

If your female blossoms are not fertilized, you might have to hand pollinate. This involves taking a soft brush and brushing the male flowers and applying the pollen to the female flowers. This is necessary a lot today because of the shortage of bees to pollinate. One year I had to do this, several years I did not. Sun has a lot to do with development too.

http://www.pumpkinnook.com/

Answer 6

If you're friendly with your neighbours, you should ask them what they did.

Answer 7

no clue