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Ray, North Dakota

Ok, my AG is still growing, and the plant is very healthy. My regular pumpkins are mostly orange, but the plants are getting killed by powdery mildew, or is it time for them to shut down?

Do I leave the orange pumpkins on the vine as long as there are healthy leaves on those plants, even if it is just a few? Long way until Halloween.

9/14/2009 9:24:43 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

..It should be still flowing juices so I cover mine with a blanket, I keep watering it....all the way up till time to cut the day before weighing....then as soon as the main vine is cut in is stuffed into a water jug as it still picks up water to the pumpkin.....

9/14/2009 10:28:39 AM

Dillsburg, PA

Why cover- won't covering keep them from turning orange?

9/14/2009 10:57:56 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Leave the field pumpkins on the vine as long as possible. Give them a good spray of fungicide around the stem. Cover them when frosts start coming. Cool and Dry. Wipe them down with 10:1 bleach and they should make it to halloween.

9/14/2009 2:24:28 PM

Ray, North Dakota

Thanks guys. Everything is backwards this year, the AG is super healthy and still growing, and the field pumpkins are really looking tough.

I'll hit them with fungicide again to keep the good leaves healthy. Then if I pick them early, wipe them down with bleach. Thanks everyone.

9/15/2009 9:41:38 AM

Ray, North Dakota

Sprayed with fungicide, Daconil to be exact, but I have never seem PM this bad. All over the place. My guess is I will be picking pumpkins in the next ten days, and trying to store them.

9/16/2009 1:56:41 PM