Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:53 pm
#290
Not sure if this is where this thread should go. Apologies if it's not.
So, does anyone here grow pumpkins? Or rather, can anyone here who knows what they're doing help out someone as horribly black thumbed as me?
I first tried growing the things this year, and it all went bad. I only saw two pumpkins out of all 5 plants I had going, and one shriveled, and the other just fell off it's stem. In addition, all the leaves acquired this weird white powdery maybe fungus stuff before eventually dying.
My best guess is that 1, my soil didn't have nearly enough nutrients, and 2, watering from above was a bad idea. I also think I may have had them too crowded, I had to keep them within a certain area so I kept turning the vines around. Another factor could have been lack of sunlight, but not as much as the other reasons I could think of.
So, any tips from master pumpkin growers?
So, does anyone here grow pumpkins? Or rather, can anyone here who knows what they're doing help out someone as horribly black thumbed as me?
I first tried growing the things this year, and it all went bad. I only saw two pumpkins out of all 5 plants I had going, and one shriveled, and the other just fell off it's stem. In addition, all the leaves acquired this weird white powdery maybe fungus stuff before eventually dying.
My best guess is that 1, my soil didn't have nearly enough nutrients, and 2, watering from above was a bad idea. I also think I may have had them too crowded, I had to keep them within a certain area so I kept turning the vines around. Another factor could have been lack of sunlight, but not as much as the other reasons I could think of.
So, any tips from master pumpkin growers?