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Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

I've read to keep button on long as possible.but my punkins keep rotting after 5 days of great growth.i have been removing pedals off.yet the button will keep flip flopping back & forth from dry to soggy depending on weather.since the button is the direct line into kin.it takes in pollen to get it growing.could it be taking in bad stuff. Cause with our humidity the button want stay dried out.

7/8/2013 7:09:53 AM

Western PA

A lot of folks will cut them off if they are soft. Rot can, and will spread into the fruit.
I have done it a few times, and the pumpkin grew fine. Apply a fungicide after you cut it off, like captan.

7/8/2013 7:37:23 AM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

Dag nab it.thats probli whats been taking me out.cause it always starts geting dull white spots & they spread.thanks zappa.headed to the patch

7/8/2013 7:54:43 AM

Wi

#3 in the world was grown with no blossom nub in 2010.

7/8/2013 10:12:34 AM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

Good to know chris thanks.lost some mighty pretty lobed long stemmed ones for my 1st year. Lesson learned

7/8/2013 2:06:01 PM

South East

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPGaLzCHSm8

Made this last season...Might help..:)

7/8/2013 11:14:16 PM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

Thank ya thank ya informative clip.i had put a desk fan on kins.kept kikn breaker.i did stop a rot in my main with slices of cedar pressed up against rot.dried it up. Cedar sucks moistore out of stuff.mite cud hang a little round peice from a string& stick to rest on blossom end to keep dry.

7/9/2013 12:40:49 AM

Farming- a bunch of catastrophies that result in a lifestyle

Yardman, I had same problem here in NE NC last year, I started 'painting' the button with daconil when I removed the petals the day after pollination, haven't had an issue with it rotting again.

7/9/2013 9:57:49 AM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

Ok thanks LB.plants bout done down to setn on terts.gona put out some terts i cloned few weeks ago just gona stikem in the feild.

7/9/2013 10:15:34 AM

Farming- a bunch of catastrophies that result in a lifestyle

Good luck....I had one I 'just stuck' in the iris bed to see what would happen....I've been rotilling and amending ahead of her ever sine! LOL, one the nicest looking plants ever, go figure.

7/10/2013 8:40:45 AM