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Post by txdirtdog on May 28, 2011 14:03:26 GMT -5
Bear with me while I try to put this into an intelligible question form.
Last year I tried to grow Big Max. SVB intervened early and wiped them out.
This year, I am trying them again. I'm having better luck. I did have what looked like fruit set, but SVBs came to bear. After surgeries, the vines survived but the fruit aborted. I assumed this was due to the vines exibiting a survival instinct.
I now have another fruit set which is bigger than a softball, and the flower has dropped per the previous group.
I am used to pumpkins having a green immature fruit, but each time I am having yellow immature fruit on the Big Max vines. It looks healthy otherwise. Is this the normal color for an immature Big Max fruit? Or am I having unpollenated fruit that just get really big before withering?
Anybody have experience with these punkins?
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Post by klorentz on May 29, 2011 10:23:23 GMT -5
Any of the Maxima pumpkins have fruits that color including Atlantic Giant , Big Max and Big Moon.
Kevin
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Post by txdirtdog on May 29, 2011 12:56:36 GMT -5
Thanks Kevin, I haven't tried to grow AG or Big Moon either. Was beginning to wonder. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/3247375/images/AgR8NN4iidU1wy_OcyQm.png)
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Post by coppice on May 30, 2011 6:32:25 GMT -5
I've only grown Atlantic Giant. It was a while back. As I recall it, the fruit did not start out green as per Connecticutt field.
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