I have a pumpkin vine growing in my yard. We planted seeds two years ago and they are just now growing. The female flowers have little pumpkins, but they die with the flower. Is there a way to get them fertile, besides "helping" them have sex, in a sense? I read that you can do it by hand, get the pollen from the males and transfer it to the females. That just seems like a lot of work. Is there an easier way to get the pumpkins to mature?
2007-09-10 15:08:24 · 2 answers · asked by laura_paura 5 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
If you have no insect pollinators, this is the way you have to do it. You can take a small brush and apply the pollen form the male flower to the female one, then hope it takes.
2007-09-10 15:14:38 · answer #1 · answered by hopflower 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get them some , uhhh
magazines you know ?
or read a dirty letter to them
2007-09-10 15:16:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋