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Shreve, Ohio

once the pumpkin starts to grow is it a male or female.How can you tell or is this a crazy question

6/15/2009 9:44:04 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Hey Kirk...all growing pumpkins are girls.

Here is a girl flower;

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=107976

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=108497

And here is a boy flower:

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=107177

6/15/2009 10:45:07 PM

Minnesota

They have both, a female to have the pumpkin and boy flowers to pollinate it, or let the bees do it or use a flower from another pumpkin to pollinate it. If you grew a 500 pound pumpkin and the seed you used was a 750 nsboy and you pollinated it with a 250 smith it would read
500 Kirkdog (750 nsboy (female) x 250 smith (male)

6/15/2009 11:02:47 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Series of pictures, #238 to 248, and skip #241... what males and females look like and when they're about to open and what they look like after.

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=87363

Some very good pictures of females as they bloomed and after, showing differences in the bulb below the petals shape, and what an early abort looks like

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=87044

(four lined up)

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=87045 (closeup of the just pollenated that is aborting)

Males have a slender stem all the way to the petals, females have that marble under the petals, even at a very small size.

6/16/2009 9:35:17 AM