Pepo fructu parvo, Pyriformi. Cucurbita aspera Pyriformis, parva = Zucca = Citrouille. Pumpkin (1772 - 1793) by Giorgio Bonelli.
Published by Sumptibus Bouchard et Gravier.
Image and text information courtesy NYPL Digital Collection.
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Getting biiiig leaves! Gonna plant her outside very soon x3
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I need an advice from any of my flower loving fellows. If the plant grows very strong leaves on one side because that's where it faces the sun, is it ok to turn it around so the smaller leaves grow bigger too? Bc maybe it'll slow the growth a little bit, she'll get less nutrients than she could've. She's been doing so good lately, I don't want to disturb her progress.
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October 2022: Still Dry & Cool
September &, so far, October have been the driest we’ve ever seen them. They are usually a little on the wet side. Needless to say, we’ve been having to water our plants more than expected:
Monday’s backyard garden harvest:
The evening temps are really cool so I dragged out the fire pit:
Seen around the neighborhood while walking the dogs:
It’s always nice to see a friendly face when we come home:
Tuesday’s backyard garden harvest:
Trying to warm up for the flight home:
I don’t know if they will get to full size but I’m rooting for them:
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Mathias and Everything Overlapping, Pt. 4
(June 27, 2022)
For this post, I had documented the progression of a pumpkin flower. I'm not confident that the fruit will last, buuuuut, one has to try.
(Post date: June 24, 2022)
The progression of a female pumpkin flower.
1. I want to call this prototypical, but there's probably a better word. This is the flower and pumpkin primordia before it fully becomes a flower.
2. This is the juvenile flower before it opens. It doesn't have it's usual orange color yet. It's separated from the rest of the vine by now.
3. The day the flower opens. I pollinated this by hand immediately after this photo. We can see the primordia behind the flower has become a little more pumpkin-like.
4. A day or two after pollination. The flower begins to die off and curl in on itself as the baby pumpkin grows exponentially. It's hard to see in the photo, but I can even feel the ribs of the pumpkin begin to form at this stage.
(Post date: June 24, 2022)
A single image.
The miniature potato plants are beginning to tuberize. I've kept them deliberately small for the sake of space and iteration.
Here, I hold a Pirampo OP flower; they have a saturated, violet (blue) center with white edges.
It hasn't totally opened yet, so I'm unable to see the anthers. Since none of the other minis are flowering, I'll allow this one to set self-seed.
With the amount of anthocyanin in the plant above ground, I can only hope for purple in the tubers as well.
I wanted to get some selfed seed from the Pirampo, but I'm not sure that it would keep the berries. The flowers ended up having purple (blue) corollas and yellow anthers.
These are all the updates that I had yet to make Tumblr posts about.
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Plant of the Day
Tuesday 31 October 2023
The large compost heaps at Great Dixter, East Sussex, UK, formed an excellent growing area for pumpkins (Cucurbita pepo) and gourds. These tender annual plants thrive on the humus rich heaps being warmed by the heat of the decomposition.
Jill Raggett
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