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Petman

Danville, CA (petman2@yahoo.com)

I posted a diary of what looks like an umbilical cord in my pumpkin stem. Anyone know what this is? I expected a solid stem like on my zuchini and other pumpkins I have purchased. Is this only in "baby" pumpkins? Does it grow solid over time? Wierd....

7/11/2006 1:45:09 AM

Tremor

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

This isn't common but it happens.

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=52150

That is an artifact of the pollen tube. It runs all the way through the pumpkin. Most pumpkins close themselves up on the blossom end so that tube isn't visible. But sometimes they don't.

Jim Sherwood weighed in an 1100+ pounder that he grew on an 846 Calai a few years ago that had one of those tubes exposed. The weigh-off inspector probed the strange looking hole & discovered (the hard way) that there wasn't much resistance there. He didn't mean to, but he DQ'ed the fruit of his friend right there on the scale.

Later when the seeds were removed, there was no rot, water or foul odors in the cavity so the breach was never through to the cavity until it was probed.

Moral of the story: Be careful with that "umbilical cord".

7/11/2006 10:50:45 PM

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