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Upa Creek, Mo

Is there a nickname for when the blossom end is inverted into the pumpkin? Everyday the kin grows over the blossom button like a mouth swallowing it. I have one of these and am wondering if these are more prone to splits etc. I bet by day 40 I won't be able to see the button anymore. Thanks

Luke

7/28/2011 9:31:26 PM

Georgia

Wouldnt worry a bit...just keep it clean and its fine

7/28/2011 10:05:22 PM

Onawa,Iowa

I have a 1520 Sperry doing the same thing,inverted blossom,
at 50 days,fourteen days left before state fair.

7/29/2011 2:23:09 AM

Bethlehem CT

Mine usually do that, I have not noticed that they split any worse than any other ones.

7/29/2011 6:23:25 AM

Mass

INNY and OUTY? like kids?

7/29/2011 6:55:29 AM

Lexington, Ky

I had a sucked in blossom last year that I could stick my arm in...all the way to my elbow. I used a block of foam early on to try to keep it from growing "closed" but that didn't work. Made it to the scales but I was nervous the entire season.

7/29/2011 8:13:58 AM

Buffalo, New York

wheels usually do this......i think these sunken blossoms worry everyone....I have a wheel going now and it is getting more sunken everyday and only at day 18. very thin wall i bet.....

be worried about it or not.....if its the only fruit on the plant you have to deal with it.

Expect the worse.......that way you wont be dissapointed!!!

7/29/2011 8:15:11 AM

Upa Creek, Mo

It's on my 1165 Marsh, but isn't a wheel. I plan on keeping it, but was just wondering if this was normal. My other 2 kins have flat butts.

On a side note, did anyone else grow this seed (1544 x 1276 Marsh)? It is by far my most agressive plant and I allocated it just a little room with intentions of using it just for pollen. It is also looking to go very orange. I crossed it with the 1059.

Thanks for the replies.

7/29/2011 8:58:30 AM

Springfield, VT

I have had them in the past, not an issue. All I have seen like that tend to run heavy to chart with all the extra flesh inside.

7/29/2011 9:00:14 AM

Lexington, Ky

Good point Wilbur. As one grower stated last year when mine was weighed...."there's a whole lotta pumpkin in there that we couldn't measure" LMAO......

7/29/2011 12:09:59 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

sounds likes it's wheeling....avoid a "bird bath" keep lifting the vine so the inversion doesn't hold water. keep tipping it tqwards the nose...holding water could be mush before to long.

7/29/2011 4:07:37 PM