That's something I hadn't thought of until now. In the last few weeks we've had (I'm sure you as well, you're not that far off from me) huge fluctuations in weather.
I noticed them going ripe when we had one week of mid60-70's weather straight to 101-103 temps then now, back to rain =/
I'm not...
I dunno? This is my first year growing pumpkins. I wondered about that too, but figured the pumpkin got pollinated because it started changing color and was about half the size of a soccer ball. I'm crossing my fingers that it's due to uneven pollination.
Thanks for the reply!
Last week I mentioned I have some fairly small Cinderella pumpkins turning color earlier then wanted. This morning I noticed one of the smaller ones with blossom end rot.
It seems to have happened over night, yesterday it looked fine.
I'm familiar with blossom rot, just not with pumpkins...
Assuming it is possible, I'd like to make my Cinderella pumpkins larger in size. I have two plants with about three vines each and one pumpkin on each vine. Right now the oldest of the pumpkins is starting to turn a yellowish orange but is still small, maybe soccer ball size and shape.
I just...