Pumpkin Growing Challenge 2012

Mine has grown another foot (not a human one ) since I took this picture and several female flower buds are now emerging as well as the males but they need to open, come on sun get things warmed up a bit

 

Update:

Pumpkin #1 - Dead.

Pumkin #2 - Stalled and leaves turning yellow.

Pumkin #3 - Struggling + has a split stem:

 

Aw no Scrungee...it probably sounds daft but could you wrap something loosely around the split stem....to keep the rain out incase it rots

 

Update..doing quite well i think considering the palarva i had to get going in the first place

 

The length of my plant has now reached around 8-10ft and it has developed a few side shoots, it's also had 2 female flowers open and several male, I don't know whether any got pollinated so as soon as I get chance I will do it manually

 

Here is the "Beast" ; another female flower opened this morning along with a male at the same time so I pollinated it with some cotton buds. The flower actually has a rather lovely scent

I had to take the photo in 3 sections as its that big

 

Loving it Bilob Interesting about the scent going to give mine a sniff

 

Looks like my attempts of ensuring pollination were successful, the young pumpkin is already the size of a tennis ball. A few leaves are showing signs of yellowing though so I think it needs a good feed which it will get tomorrow...

 

Here it is.......come on grow my little beauty, as long as your big enough to be carve up for halloween I'll be happy

 

Brilliant Bilbo.....Mr L stood on the end of one of my plants yesterday and crushed it but noticed a 'ping pong' ball sized fruit further back so it should be ok....
Think it was sabotage myself.....probably because i'm giving my pumpkins more attention than him

 

my pumpkin split at the back of it so i dumped it, the seeds werent developed enough to save them

good one bilbo

also all my plants and everybody else in spain got the mosaic virus