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Walhalla, ND.

Has anyone encountered seeds inside the female blossom?

5/13/2016 10:27:44 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

Yes, Probably best to choose the next flower down the line. Although you can get a OK pumpkin from it, why chance it unless you have no other decisions to make. Early flowers will do this, at least so in my patches.

5/13/2016 11:11:06 AM

South Hero, VT

I second the WiZ. I had the seeds/blossom happen last year, pollinated the blossom anyway, and got a perfectly shaped pumpkin that rotted 14 days after pollination.

Go for the second female blossom.

5/13/2016 3:32:01 PM

Winthrop N Y

I cut the pumpkin off the vine.They will never get big or they abort in two weeks

5/13/2016 3:41:51 PM

Tasmania, Australia

Had a plant do this last year. Every fruit aborted at 50lbs.

5/13/2016 4:51:15 PM

Vancouver Island, British Columbia

How do you tell if there's seeds in the blossom?
Just curious, because my pumpkin stop growing at 10 pounds last year..

5/14/2016 12:51:50 AM

Garden State Pumpkins

Joe did you set the next pumpkin? seeds in the blossom are a deformity where the ovary is already exposed. I went three years with pumpkins aborting early only to find out it was a soil problem

5/14/2016 3:44:30 AM

Susquehanna,pa

Last year a lot of the blossoms on my 1744 Fulk plant had seeds in them. I ended up using one of them and grew a 1460 lb with a good shape.

5/14/2016 8:22:46 AM

Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Last year not knowing what I was doing I pick the first female blossom and fertilized it by hand. I didn't know anything about seeds in the blossom.

Also instead of letting three pumpkins grow I just pick the first one and culled the rest.

I have a question .....I was wondering, are the seeds just tiny specs about the size of a flea...right in the flower?

Thank for any info on this

5/14/2016 3:24:08 PM

Susquehanna,pa

Cntryboy has a picture of seeds in a blossom in his 2015 diary entry #170 and 171

5/15/2016 9:10:55 AM

Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Thank you Crawdad!

5/15/2016 6:02:26 PM