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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: Bert on October 01, 2012, 08:48:20 pm

Title: Pumpkin
Post by: Bert on October 01, 2012, 08:48:20 pm

Can you ripen pumpkin off the vine?  The vine has gone down hill very rapidly over the last week. And now is dead :'( . But monty ( the pumpkin) is still green so he is now sitting on the windowsill. Hoping someone will tell me that he will still ripen.

Title: Re: Pumpkin
Post by: MAK on October 02, 2012, 08:54:06 am

Not sure but I would leave it on the vine and cover with straw if you expect a frost.
Our vines looked dead after the very dry weather and when I could not water as frequentley as usual. We had some heavy rain and it has given them new life, flowers and a couple of new fruits on each vine ( growing like mad). I will leave them as our growing season is a bit longer this far south.
Martin

Title: Re: Pumpkin
Post by: Fowgill Farm on October 02, 2012, 10:37:24 am

Jack frost toasted my pumpkins last week and they will be duly composted later today, very poor crop this year, see my commnets under butternut squash topic
mandy :pig:

Title: Re: Pumpkin
Post by: Eve on October 02, 2012, 03:37:47 pm

Yes, it will still ripen on the windowsill.
 :wave:

Title: Re: Pumpkin
Post by: Bert on October 02, 2012, 08:37:43 pm

Thanks Eve  :thumbsup:
 That's really good news. I'm so pleased monty will ripen after he put so much effort into growing.
Sorry to hear the frost got your pumpkins Fowgill Farm.

Title: Re: Pumpkin
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 02, 2012, 09:09:26 pm

Not a single fruit on mine.