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Are winter squash in the species Cucurbita maxima grown for food and/or decorative purposes.

Are winter squash in the species Cucurbita maxima grown for food and/or decorative purposes.

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What is a good method for rapidly cloning White Pumpkin plants?

I have six particular 40-day-old white pumpkin plants. I need to multiply these particular plants as rapidly as possible -- It's at least another month or two before I can extract viable seeds. Am I better off utilizing the bury-the-vine method? I…
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How many squares should I use for small pumpkins and watermelon?

In my square foot garden, I have a trellis beside one edge. Am I being too ambitious to try to put a square for pumpkins, then an empty square, then a square for watermelon along the edge?
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Pumpkins in Florida

I planted a patch on July 4th, seedlings sprouted a couple days later. Its been fungus/disease free (I spray a baking soda organic homemade spray every 10 days). The past week we've been getting some serious heat during the days and the top leaves…
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Why does this Pumpkin have Two Different Sides?

I planted some pumpkin seeds from a fancy (and tasty) pumpkin I bought last year, I think was a glass slipper pumpkin (https://outstandingseed.com/shop/stacking-pumpkins/glass-slipper-f1-pumpkin/). The resultant pumpkins look odd. The top looks like…
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Should I be worried about this Pumpkin plant discolouration?

Should I be worried about this Pumpkin plant discolouration? see pictures:
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Quickest pumpkin variety and advice on fast growth

I'm in Zone 7a, right on the edge of 7b and I had the sudden urge to grow a pumpkin. Obviously its Sep 1st and winter is coming but I'm wondering if it is possible to grow my own pumpkin (even a tiny one) by Halloween. This gives me 59 days if I…
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Why is my pumpkin vine no longer growing?

So, I'm growing a Big Max pumpkin in a 4x8 bed. Everything was going just fine, one viable pumpkin started growing. Things were looking good. All of the sudden, the vine itself just stopped growing, at all. Its been like that for several weeks now.…
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Pumpkin leaves have weird spots

I just started doing gardening and I grew some pumpkins from seeds. They were doing fine until I saw some weird spots on the leaves. It became worse the second day and the edge of the leaf looked like it was burnt, I was afraid it was some…
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Pumpkins are not producing male flowers

I haven't seen a single male flower this season and as a result females are shriveling and dropping off. Any suggestions?
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Brown on emerging pumpkin fruit?

I have planted a pumpkin which has been growing really well, however today when I came up And started weeding around my plants found a brown wide ring on the emerging fruit. Any suggestions what this might be and do I need to be worried?
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Pumpkin seedlings dying off?

I planted a few pumpkin seeds in pots 2 to a pot and left in my greenhouse, after about 4 weeks I had 2 lovely looking plants in one pot each with 3 leaves, at this point I transplanted them each into there own bigger pot. Within about a week one…
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How to protect a pumpkin plant on the balcony?

I have planted a relatively large pumpkin plant without much hassle in a pot and now it's becoming relatively large and I have moved it to my balcony in a larger pot (approximately 60L). Unfortunately, our winters here in Germany can become quite…
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Can I grow a pumpkin in a pot on a balcony?

I've seen a pumpkin plant hanging down from somebody's balcony, bearing fruits and am wondering, how is it possible? I've tried planting a hokkaido pumpkin into a pot and it grew very small and beared a 5cm fruit, while another seed from the same…
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