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Syracuse, NY

My plants ain't big enough to have even field pumpkins set on them yet, but my fiscal deadline is July 21st to ever have anything in my 'normal' range of weights. Pumpkin plants have periods of what their needs are as in a timeline of their life cycle. I do not know the exact or professional indicators but I know that last year I had great plants but whatever females became pollinated aborted soon thereafter.
Only after shelling out the dough for water-soluble, high-P fertilizer as in a 25-pound bag of it and applying it via overhead sprinklers 2-3 times a week at the recommended label dosage (which I've ALWAYS done, but this time I went by the plants' magnificence) did the problem 'go away', butt by then it was end of July and the lesson was to never go fully by how great the plants are growing, but by the males showing up and the females will soon come along...Switching in one serving/alternating in or switching over to Hi-P then. I've never cared about how a soil report will have said my soil was at Point A. This is NOW. Also, ONE pumpkin per plant is what saved my field pumpkins from having the same fate - Great Plants, but no Great Pumpkins (Store-sized ones, lol). Following fruits hitting beach ball size and ...'no worries'?... perhaps 20-20-20 for the rest of the season until the sweet end of it all. So, review and monitor your P level because experts 100 years ago knew to make 10-20-10, 0-46-0 and so forth. Why else would they? Hmmm...Best of luck to you.
I will gladly delete this if you'd like. Just trying to help. eg

6/30/2025 11:07:28 PM

Massachusetts

I appreciate you taking the time! Thank you for the suggestion. I think it may be the plant life cycle. Kinda like your said. I think in time it will set something when it is ready. I have a few chances the next few days!

7/1/2025 5:26:31 AM

Syracuse, NY

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7/1/2025 11:04:12 AM