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Hey - So that you know, great job on the super-insulating your fruit. So that you know, if ever faced with should I or shouldn't I, make sure that no pumpkin skin is ever even connected through anything especially wet/plastic to the cold, as it will travel right through the material as if a solid connection. So, you sound like you've got it. PS---I've yet to make a point of it that pumpkins are SUPPOSED TO split open at some point, IMHO. There may be a reason for the stem splits and blossom-end splits - they are here to protect, yet disperse, seeds. Otherwise, they'd be *more* of a flat pancake with seeds within until at least spring/summer and who knows how that would affect the evolution of said pumpkins.
I currently agree with the 'no weight on the blossom end' belief, with no time to think about it now. Take care and be well.
eric g

[Last edit: 09/22/26 12:10:52 AM]

9/22/2026 12:06:33 AM

Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley, Quebec, Canada

But if pumpkins are supposed to split how come when you just grow regular eating pumpkins they never split?

9/22/2026 1:52:35 PM

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That is a good question and I've been meaning to ask all
'Has anyone ever blown up a field pumpkin?'...'Cause you are correct in inquiring about that. Good one. Maybe it's because of 'blossom down', lol. I will ask Google soon. FPs, I've noticed, have a different kinda blossom end and the blossom stub seems to fall right off even before I can remove the nylon mesh baggie, sometimes. Maybe no fuse, no boom. Worthy of us knowing the answer. Later tonight, I'll investigate. eg

9/22/2026 7:19:43 PM