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"F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Is it possible to plant those orange pumpkins that they use at Halloween 
> in such a way that they are still in one piece at Halloween in 
> sydney?Apparently you plant them late spring which means now or last week. 
> so how long do they take to ripen if you do and will they keep till end of 
> october?

The butternut pumpkin I have in Perth has been going for 2 months the first 
pumpkin will be ready in a month. I figure the vine will collapse a month 
after that. But from experience you let the pumpkin dry out for a month or 2 
before eating. What happens after 2 months would be the pumpkin would shrink 
so trying to keep this for halloween might not work. The vagaries of trying 
to follow a northern hemisphere pagan ceremony here! So if I were you I 
would plant the pumpkin in Febuary/March and hope the first frost you get is 
after harvest time!

So why is it that there is never a male flower and female flower at the same 
time on my pumpkin. Thank God for bees hehe. 

Loosecanon wrote:
> "F Murtz"<haggisz@hotmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:TZjEq.46$%E2.21@viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com...
>> Is it possible to plant those orange pumpkins that they use at Halloween
>> in such a way that they are still in one piece at Halloween in
>> sydney?Apparently you plant them late spring which means now or last week.
>> so how long do they take to ripen if you do and will they keep till end of
>> october?
>
> The butternut pumpkin I have in Perth has been going for 2 months the first
> pumpkin will be ready in a month. I figure the vine will collapse a month
> after that. But from experience you let the pumpkin dry out for a month or 2
> before eating. What happens after 2 months would be the pumpkin would shrink
> so trying to keep this for halloween might not work. The vagaries of trying
> to follow a northern hemisphere pagan ceremony here! So if I were you I
> would plant the pumpkin in Febuary/March and hope the first frost you get is
> after harvest time!
>
> So why is it that there is never a male flower and female flower at the same
> time on my pumpkin. Thank God for bees hehe.
>
>


I just got 6 "jack o' lantern" pumpkin seeds but judging on my success 
with trying to germinate some jam melon seeds I probably wont get anywhere.

F Murtz wrote:

> I just got 6 "jack o' lantern" pumpkin seeds but judging on my success 
> with trying to germinate some jam melon seeds I probably wont get anywhere.

W ca get tonnes of pumpkins to germinate* and run everyvery rigging 
where, but abut 0.00001% ever grow any fruit. No luck with bee 
germination ad we never have the different flower at the same time.

*provided we do not plant them, but just let them come up.

.

"terryc" <newsninespam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote in message 
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>F Murtz wrote:
>
>> I just got 6 "jack o' lantern" pumpkin seeds but judging on my success 
>> with trying to germinate some jam melon seeds I probably wont get 
>> anywhere.
>
> W ca get tonnes of pumpkins to germinate* and run everyvery rigging where, 
> but abut 0.00001% ever grow any fruit. No luck with bee germination ad we 
> never have the different flower at the same time.
>
> *provided we do not plant them, but just let them come up.
>
> .

Chatted with my uncle today. He said planting his pumpkins now. I asked why 
and he said experience has shown more flowers with a later planting and more 
likelihood of male and female flowers at the same time.

The burpless cucumbers I planeted last year only put on female flowers. I 
can't recall seeing a male flower so figured bees must have pollinated the 3 
cucumbers I got. Just planted some apple cucumbers myself so will see it the 
flower theory works. I seem to remember having only male flowers and later 
on female flowers so is all a mystery.