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STRANGE PUMPKINS ON ONE VINE.
My pumpkins are looking strange, I grew these from pink pumpkin seed that I had saved from a pink pumpkin that my sister had given to me a couple of seasons ago. I grew these pumpkins last season as I live in Australia and we're just coming into spring here. Now maybe someone here that understands pumpkins can explain to me why I had 2 completely different looking pumpkins on one vine, it has me stumped as I'm not familiar at all with how a pumpkin vine works. At first when I saw there were 2 kinds of pumpkins on the vine I cut off the green ones but they kept on developing on that vine so I thought maybe I should just let them all be. I harvested around 15 pumpkins that year from about 3 vines from seeds I'd saved from the gifted pink pumpkin. Did you know that the young pumpkin leaves are edible and really quite delicious, you could also dehydrate them to use in your soups and stews later on, just blitz the dried leaves. When the leaves cover the flowers just cut them out of the way so's the flowers can get full sun on them to develop into pumpkins.
This is the pink pumpkin my sister gifted me.
So this is the green one.
This is the pink one, how strange is that or maybe it's normal.
Did you know young pumpkin leaves are edible and taste really good?
Oopsy that's one of my pretty grevillea flowers that my pumpkins were growing around.
My plants loved climbing up the trellis.
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bees must have visited another gourd before stopping at this vine and two flowers got germinated by something different ? interesting shapes :) thanks for sharing
Ahhhh that makes sense, thank you.
they are interesting but I have seen this before. Looks like a pumpkin might have been cross pollinated with a squash. The green stripped one. Not too sure, but perhaps. Upvoted
@christa
wow... you doing great... what a big pumpkin you got there... nice one...thanks for sharing!
two years ago I planted cucumbers and they was not green :D and the way the rain's was inconsistent rather then look like a cucumber it kinda looked like one of those bird house gourds :)
Amazing how the plant world works.
Thank you, it's just so weird how that happened but all the pumpkins tasted great.
Thank you.
Looks like they have been cross pollinated. Do you have some squash growing near by?
and that my friends is all that matters
Absolutely.
I did have a couple of zucchini plants in that area, hmmmmmm.
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@christa A year ago I also had a vegetable garden. Because of circumstances I do not have that anymore. I miss it. I find your pictures and info nice to read. Thank you! Upvote and followed. Greetings from the Netherlands
Thank you, greetings from Australia and following you also.
Thanks for the tip on the leaves...I had no idea. I am a big salad and veggie eater and love new things to try !!! ~ Yvon
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That is unusual! I would have thought that if it had got cross pollinated you'd have something different to the original growing, but all the same on one vine. I would never have imagined different pumpkins on the one vine!
By the way, where abouts in Auss are you?
Strange for sure, I'm in Melbourne, Victoria.
Sure.
I agree. It looks like you have some cross pollination going on. Interesting looking vegetables. Good photos. Thanks 🐓🐓
Thank you
Thanks dear...keep steeming hot