My husband planted these pumpkins this spring.. they have been his little gardening project this year because I decided I wasn't having them in my garden patch because of the powdery mildew last years pumpkins had. Anyway, heres the photos. Any ideas what's going on??
This is the only healthy pumpkin
[img]https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l208/Binkalette/IMG_1535.jpg[/img]
A split female
[img]https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l208/Binkalette/IMG_1533.jpg[/img]
and the leaves
[img]https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l208/Binkalette/IMG_1536.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l208/Binkalette/IMG_1537.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l208/Binkalette/IMG_1538.jpg[/img]
It has been a very very wet year if that makes any difference. It's also been pretty hot the last 3 weeks or so.
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I don't think it was poor pollination, the pumpkins are growing out into the grass and so we haven't been able to mow around them. The grass is FILLED with little yellow and white flowers that the bees are swarming all day. I would just assume that they would hit up the pumpkins while they were at it, although I hand pollinated the one large pumpkin to be sure, I haven't done it with any of the others.
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Splitting fruit, and sometimes leaf curl, can be caused by irregular watering. If you had a lot of heavy rain, it's possible that the plants became accustomed to a lot of water and reacted this way when the rains stopped. Watering with a hose or sprinkler may have provided less water than the plants were used to. This could especially be the case if the temperatures were high after the rains stopped.
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This site on hydroponic gardening states that a [url=https://www.quickgrownutrients.com/grow_guide.htm]symptoms of fertilizer overdose[/url] are:
Did anyone fertilize recently?Overdoses quickly (within hours) result in wilting and then death. The symptoms are a sudden wilt with leaves curled under.
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