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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 happening to my pumpkin shoot?

Please find attached picture of my pumpkin shoot. The leaves show a whitish appearance. I am growing it with vermi compost and cocopit mix. Can somebody tell what has been happening with the plant lately? I am very much worried. I am staying in…
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Pumpkins survive and continue to produce but fruit went rotten after some development

I seeded some "atlantic giant" pumpkins in april, in a big lawn at full sun for all day long. They started to grow and to flower, and after some time they started to produce some pumpkins. They grew until they became as big as a football. Then the…
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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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Can I Reuse Halloween Pumpkins as Fertilizer?

I have a bunch of pumpkins from Halloween. Normally I’d just toss them in the trash however began to wonder about an alternate use. Can I just mash up those pumpkins and spread around my trees and shrubs? Would that actually provide any nutrients to…
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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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Big Max pumpkin leaves shrivel/go limp in hot afternoon, even with frequent waterings; how to stop this?

I have a Big Max pumpkin plant that sprouted in late June and has since taken off, with a lot of leaves, flowers, and pumpkin buds. I have been fertilizing it fairly often with a pretty balanced fertilizer (little less N than P or K, I don't…
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How do I use a suggested spray for white fungus on my pumpkin plants?

I've got 3 pumpkin plants growing and they're pretty huge and producing. The white fungus is pretty bad so I'm using a suggested spray, and I hope it works. The spray is 1 tablespoon each of baking powder and vegetable oil per gallon of water. …
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What are the black creatures on my pumpkin leaves?

My Giant Atlantic pumpkins are now 12 weeks old and I've noticed grey/black things on the underside of some of the leaves. I thought this was a growth of some sort but when touched, they move and seem to be little beetles. What are they? Do I need…
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Is this discoloration on a pumpkin plant stem caused by squash vine borer?

I have a big, healthy looking pumpkin plant with a dozen small pumpkins starting to bud. Today I went in and got a good look at the base of the vine and found this discoloration. Is this squash vine borer? If so, how can I save the plant? So I did…
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When do Big Max pumpkins start to produce?

I have a Big Max pumpkin that sprouted a little over a month ago. It's looking good and producing lots of leaves, but I haven't seen the first sign of buds anywhere. I've never done pumpkins before, so I'm not sure when I should expect to start…
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pumpkin identification and control

Location: north Italy (alps) My mom has a corner in which she throws away garden/grass cuts and vegetables/fruit/plants scraps. By spring this will have (to some degree) turned to "earth", and we will then add it to the vegetable garden before…
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What kind of pumpkin is it?

I've planted some pumpkins this year from the seeds we've collected from the store bought pumpkins: hokkaido, spaghetti, delicata. At some point the plants got all mixed up, so I didn't know which is which, but as this one was growing I was sure…
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(NW Indiana) Yellow pumpkin stems and leaves

Northwest Indiana. Pumpkins were planted at the end of May. I noticed within the last 2-3 weeks the stems on both plants started turning yellow and the skin started breaking open (for lack of a better term). Plants are in full sun. Get watered once…
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pumpkins turning white and dying on the vine

My pumpkins are dying. They get to be about 5 inched around and then they turn white and die. Why?
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When trellising pumpkins, do I need to fertilise more heavily?

This year I decided to try trellising my pumpkins and am wondering about the impact this might have on the fruit, since the vines won't be putting down roots as they run. Does anyone have experience with this, or know how much fertiliser I should…
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