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Lombard, IL

I have a couple pretty good sized pumpkins and back up pumpkins. Should I do anything with all the male flowers that keep popping up? I know if I keep cutting off the flowers in my flower garden it will only encourage the plant to make more. I want my pumpkins to work on growing fruit- not male flowers. Do I pinch them off when they are small like I do with the female flowers?

7/20/2007 1:29:02 PM

Georgia

Once your preety confident that your pumpkins are set go ahead and cut off the male flowers they do tend to take away overall growth of your pumpkins.

7/20/2007 1:39:22 PM

Delaware, Ohio

Cut them off. I cut off over 150 males today on 4 plants.

7/21/2007 12:21:40 AM