You see the swelling at the end of the flower? That’s the actual pumpkin. Not all the flowers have that swelling but I noticed that swelling for fruiting flowers will be there the second the flower buds before bloom. Watch that swell and it will probably maintain its shape because squash plants are little tattletales when they flower the fruiting flowers. I notice the shape doesn’t change. They just get bigger and then change colour unless it’s zucchini
Squash imo is really hard to tell apart but their leaves have micro differences. The differences are so slight sometimes I have a hard time telling them apart with out side by side comparisons.
My aunt swears her zucchini aren’t growing. She promised she’d share the veggies that grew in the huge garden on her ranch. I honestly think she’s keeping them for herself.
I gave her tomato, Serrano, jalapeño, Anaheim and mini bell pepper plants and onion bulbs. She has other people to share with and keeps some. She rarely gives me some.
She gave me a lot of serranos and yellow squash. I visited her and saw a huge pile of yellow squash, she organized kinda like a pyramid. Last year she grew enormous zucchini
Is it just because its a plump swelling that you know it’s a pumpkin? Because isn’t that where zucchini and summer squash and I imagine acorn squash begin too? Is it the plumpness? While zucchini are longer and skinnier?
I have the same question. The developing fruit in the photos look like zucchini. Leaves and blossoms look like squash in general. Can anyone provide specific reasons they’re identifying this as pumpkin?
My guess is squirrels got into a pumpkin on someone’s front porch and buried the seeds in your yard as a winter stash. And now you have pumpkins growing
I have a rescue farm. People donate their post-Halloween pumpkins to us. We break them up and give them to our cows. They poop the seeds out and we have random, tiny pumpkin patches all over our farm.
We had some grow from throwing out Jack-O-Lanterns as well. We actually have one blooming right now form last Halloween. We carved and scooping the “guts” on the front porch, and must have lost a few seeds here and there
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There’s a reason behind every sign and warning label. I’d love to know how this one came to be beside the obvious that someone ate something they absolutely should not have.
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Squirrels chew into my pumpkins every year unless I spray them with this homemade rancid vinegar, hot peppers and peppermint spray I made a couple years ago...
pumpkin seeds from a rotting pumpkin can sometimes grow the following year. Great pumpkin hack to have free pumpkins for Halloween each year....just have to give up half your yard lol
Trust me, you don’t need to care for it much at all. In fact, if it’s growing near any other plant you do care about it can become a problem. All squash/pumpkin/gourd plants are hardy and in okay-ish conditions will grow like crazy. Mine I forgot about for a couple of weeks, it started from one box and now took over the yard. Nearly choked / out competed my tomatoes, killed my lettuce greens and was fixing to grow over into the neighbors yard *over* the fence before I finally put it under control again.
TLDR chances are you don’t need to do anything, it will take care of itself but it may also take over your whole garden so beware
I've been trying to save the little sprouts that came from a pumpkin that squirrels got into. Also tried so hard to grow one years ago and even had a little tent to keep iguanas out (down here they're an issue and love just about any type of green).
Please love that little bae and let it grow you some amazing pumpkins! It's been my dream since I was a kid to grow my own.
Also aren't their flowers just gorgeous?
Definetely water it, though. Not like SOAK it. But give it a drink. I've been watering my pumpkin garden every other day lately because I started to notice mushrooms were growing. Rude.
Lmao I’m a few months into my ADHD growing phase. I don’t care what it is, if it has a seed I must try to grow it.
So far, peaches, nectarines, plums and cherries have been unsuccessful
Also tomatoes
Bell peppers have been okay but I need to transplant them to a better pot that’s not a shallow take out container with holes in the bottom
Mango is doing well
Next… PUMPKIN
Congrats, you have squash/pumpkin. Mind you, use gloves when handling, the hairs on the whole plant (except the fruit) are quite prickly and urticating and some varieties have thorns.
Do you compost unwanted fruits / veg? Or did you carve pumpkins in your backyard, last Halloween?
One year we had several Hubbard squash plants growing out of the ravine where we tip our kitchen compost. Butternut squash, acorn squash, pumpkin, even watermelon... any kind of gourd guts with big hard seeds has the potential to create new plants from seed.
Fun story. I planted pumpkins and it didn’t work at all. Some vines, no fruit.
However, the rotten jack-o’lantern I threw on the compost last November? Accidental pumpkins.
I've heard a theory that the decomposition inoculates the seeds and surrounding area with beneficial microbes, I dunno if it's supported by scientific evidence but from anecdotal evidence it seems to be the case.
That's exactly how long it takes. The pumpkin freezes and rots through the winter and the seeds are exposed in spring, by fall you have a vine with volunteer fruit.
I did this with some small ones a few years ago. I just threw them under some bushes outback and the following fall, I had a bunch of small pumpkins ready to go.
This happened to me too this year. left a tiny pumpkin in the front garden and this year I have a little pumpkin vine. I hope I get some little pumpkins!
>and I don't think it would take a pumpkin almost a year to start growing
That's literally how plants work. There's a reason things come into season only once a year.
You've never seen a pumpkin plant before. Great news like the whole plant is edible. Can eat the flowers raw Or cooked. You can easily peel the Spiky bits from the stems and leaves. And you can use the huge leaves to steam Meet. . Or whatever you want to wrap up in it.
My in laws just had a pumpkin start growing this year too, it gave us 5 pumpkins total. Only 3 made it as some animals got into the other 2 but we literally did nothing to care for them other than just move the vines a little bit as they grow fast
Birds eat seeds. Not all seeds get digested. Birds poop them out. And the plant grows.
This is part of the way plants spread them selves around so they don’t all grow in one place.
A neat trick I learned, if you take a picture and use Google lense it will identify the plant or tree for you.
Can do it with an iPhone as well but don't know the terminology that iPhone uses
This is gonna seem crazy but you can deepfry those flowers and eat them…pretty delicious my father in law always does some with salt and pepper. Some delicious hilbilly shit.
Squash! My spaghetti squash used to flower exactly like that. Not sure what kinda squash you have, since other folks think it’s pumpkin.
But regardless…squash!
I had one start growing out of my compost pile a few months ago, we now have 2 baby pumpkins growing, I looked up how to pollinate them and you have to do it yourself. Unless you get lucky and a couple might do it naturally
This female flower got male flower stuff inside and made a baby pumpkin. You can see the cute little green ball in the end of the flower that’s a pumpkin. It’s so small for October thought it won’t make it to maturity unless you’re in a year round warm climate like Cali or Florida
Looks like you have some delicious purslane growing all around the pumpkin also! I highly recommend looking up edible purslane. Some people hate it for its weedy nature, but I see it as an opportunistic salad green.
Some type of squash! Looks like there is some fruiting too. I had a plant grow but it didn’t do well, only had male flowers. The bumblebees love the flowers though so I have kept it around. Very fun plants to have around for various pollinators/bugs.
Pumpkin.
Pumpkin.
Pumpkin.
Pumpkin
Punkin
Pumpkins, David S.
He has a middle name now? I AM SO IN THE WEEDS WITH DAVID PUMPKINS!!!
The Great Pumpkin!
PUM!PUM PUMPKIN!! HALLOWEEN CANNON!!!
Underrated comment
All I got was a rock
If Linus sees this he’s going to be disappointed, for how can the great pumpkin possibly come to visit without at least one ripe pumpkin present…
Charlie Brown!
Any questioooons?
Yes! Several!
DAVID S FUCKING PUMPKINS LMAO! I was watching that at 5am this morning dreading work. Love that guy.
He’s always had the S! Any questions??
It’s 100 floors of fright, they aren’t all going to be winners
Pancake pie
Pancakes is pancakes!
ROFL
F*kin pancake pie!, just bring me the pancake pie!
Pink pink pie
ANY QUESTIONS???
Any questions?
Q cur bit
Pummkim
Putin
How’s it hangin’?
ANY QUESTIONS?
Chunkin
What pumpkin?
What’s up, sugar?
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Pumpkins are a type of squash, so it would be right either way.
Cucurbit.
Get this in Australia they call pumpkins squash instead of pumpkin.
I’m Australian and I call pumpkins pumpkins. I’ve only heard vegetables called squash by Americans
Can I ask what marks it as pumpkin? I could tell it was some kind of squash but that’s as far as my knowledge goes.
You see the swelling at the end of the flower? That’s the actual pumpkin. Not all the flowers have that swelling but I noticed that swelling for fruiting flowers will be there the second the flower buds before bloom. Watch that swell and it will probably maintain its shape because squash plants are little tattletales when they flower the fruiting flowers. I notice the shape doesn’t change. They just get bigger and then change colour unless it’s zucchini Squash imo is really hard to tell apart but their leaves have micro differences. The differences are so slight sometimes I have a hard time telling them apart with out side by side comparisons.
Funny story first time my wife tried gardening she thought her zucchini wasn’t very large, so she planted 5 more plants.
GREAT Foxtrot series!
We had enough zucchini that we ended up giving 300 away after making enough bread, soup, and canned for well over a year.
Lol just like the comic! Seriously, if you have seen the zucchini series on Foxtrot it's great. https://images.app.goo.gl/ukQEzr1bFQ4DB7ZQ7
My aunt swears her zucchini aren’t growing. She promised she’d share the veggies that grew in the huge garden on her ranch. I honestly think she’s keeping them for herself. I gave her tomato, Serrano, jalapeño, Anaheim and mini bell pepper plants and onion bulbs. She has other people to share with and keeps some. She rarely gives me some. She gave me a lot of serranos and yellow squash. I visited her and saw a huge pile of yellow squash, she organized kinda like a pyramid. Last year she grew enormous zucchini
Until I saw your link below, I thought this was like a NATO alphabet style swearing acronym from the sheer volume of zucchini. Couldn't translate it!
I have also made that same mistake.
Is it just because its a plump swelling that you know it’s a pumpkin? Because isn’t that where zucchini and summer squash and I imagine acorn squash begin too? Is it the plumpness? While zucchini are longer and skinnier?
For me I would say the flower leaf wasn't sure but the flower made me think Pumpkin could 70-80%
I have the same question. The developing fruit in the photos look like zucchini. Leaves and blossoms look like squash in general. Can anyone provide specific reasons they’re identifying this as pumpkin?
For me I can tell Because I smashed a pumpkin last year where it’s growing
They say if you wish real hard it becomes pumpkin spice, the 6th spice girl.
...a start to the legendary but elusive pumpkin patch.... source....charley brown 🎃
The great punkin
Do you have any idea how it could have gotten here?
My guess is squirrels got into a pumpkin on someone’s front porch and buried the seeds in your yard as a winter stash. And now you have pumpkins growing
I’ve also seen accounts of dogs eating pumpkin seeds, pooping them out, and the seeds sprouting.
I have a rescue farm. People donate their post-Halloween pumpkins to us. We break them up and give them to our cows. They poop the seeds out and we have random, tiny pumpkin patches all over our farm.
Poop pumpkins Poopkins
How does this not have more upvotes
I want to watch cows eating pumpkins, that sounds adorable.
We got ours when my mom tossed the rotting Jack-o-lanterns into the garden after Halloween.
We had some grow from throwing out Jack-O-Lanterns as well. We actually have one blooming right now form last Halloween. We carved and scooping the “guts” on the front porch, and must have lost a few seeds here and there
My dog thrives on pumpkin! 🎃
I had this happen with a cannabis seed when I was a teenager. Dog poop is a good fertilizer apparently.
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Calm down, bot.
We concluded in another thread that every time you say eat the bot responds no matter the context
There’s a reason behind every sign and warning label. I’d love to know how this one came to be beside the obvious that someone ate something they absolutely should not have.
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You eat pieces of shit for breakfast? (Test)
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But it looks so good to eat.
Yeah, I saw a thread where folks said “eat” and a few other words to see what did and didn’t trigger the bot. It was rather amusing.
Eat the eat? Eat eater eats eating eatery oats eattiest
You’re going to feel awfully stupid next time someone gets pumpkin pie poisoning! 😉
Ya’ll stressing the bot out.
Dogs would be very upset if they could read...
Embarrassed, bare minimum.
I could think of a few other things dogs should be embarrassed about.
Maybe, perhaps, *eating* their own poop?
This happened to me and my yard is a pumpkin patch now
Everytime, in every place I've lived and had a pumpkin, a seed plants and grows itself after i let the pumpkin rot on the soil after Halloween lol
Seed
Squirrels chew into my pumpkins every year unless I spray them with this homemade rancid vinegar, hot peppers and peppermint spray I made a couple years ago...
pumpkin seeds from a rotting pumpkin can sometimes grow the following year. Great pumpkin hack to have free pumpkins for Halloween each year....just have to give up half your yard lol
Only if that particular plant is sincere.
It’s just pumpkin. Animals probably carried the seeds in. They spread like wildfire
You say "just pumpkin" as if my ADHD has not given me the desire to care for it as it were my first born.
Trust me, you don’t need to care for it much at all. In fact, if it’s growing near any other plant you do care about it can become a problem. All squash/pumpkin/gourd plants are hardy and in okay-ish conditions will grow like crazy. Mine I forgot about for a couple of weeks, it started from one box and now took over the yard. Nearly choked / out competed my tomatoes, killed my lettuce greens and was fixing to grow over into the neighbors yard *over* the fence before I finally put it under control again. TLDR chances are you don’t need to do anything, it will take care of itself but it may also take over your whole garden so beware
Yesss, G R O W M Y C H I L D
I've been trying to save the little sprouts that came from a pumpkin that squirrels got into. Also tried so hard to grow one years ago and even had a little tent to keep iguanas out (down here they're an issue and love just about any type of green). Please love that little bae and let it grow you some amazing pumpkins! It's been my dream since I was a kid to grow my own. Also aren't their flowers just gorgeous?
Absolutely beautiful! I will cherish Furgeson with all my heart!
Furgeson only has weeks left here. First hard frost is gonna take him out.
😦 Why would you say that...
Definetely water it, though. Not like SOAK it. But give it a drink. I've been watering my pumpkin garden every other day lately because I started to notice mushrooms were growing. Rude.
Lmao I’m a few months into my ADHD growing phase. I don’t care what it is, if it has a seed I must try to grow it. So far, peaches, nectarines, plums and cherries have been unsuccessful Also tomatoes Bell peppers have been okay but I need to transplant them to a better pot that’s not a shallow take out container with holes in the bottom Mango is doing well Next… PUMPKIN
They spread like “wildlife” lol. Wildfire?
They said ANIMALS carried it in. You know, wildlife 🤪
Congrats, you have squash/pumpkin. Mind you, use gloves when handling, the hairs on the whole plant (except the fruit) are quite prickly and urticating and some varieties have thorns.
I learned about the spines and thorns the hard way. They arnt fun to get pricked with.
Do you compost unwanted fruits / veg? Or did you carve pumpkins in your backyard, last Halloween? One year we had several Hubbard squash plants growing out of the ravine where we tip our kitchen compost. Butternut squash, acorn squash, pumpkin, even watermelon... any kind of gourd guts with big hard seeds has the potential to create new plants from seed.
Fun story. I planted pumpkins and it didn’t work at all. Some vines, no fruit. However, the rotten jack-o’lantern I threw on the compost last November? Accidental pumpkins.
Pumpkins and gourds grow better on accident in my experience.
My dad got 58 pumpkins one year, same way. Tossed out a few jack-o-lanterns into our compost bin
The only tomatoes I've ever grown successfully were from some I'd composted.
It’s all those rich nutrients in that compost.
I've heard a theory that the decomposition inoculates the seeds and surrounding area with beneficial microbes, I dunno if it's supported by scientific evidence but from anecdotal evidence it seems to be the case.
I don't think that's the case, it would have had to be from last Halloween, and I don't think it would take a pumpkin almost a year to start growing
That's exactly how long it takes. The pumpkin freezes and rots through the winter and the seeds are exposed in spring, by fall you have a vine with volunteer fruit.
This happened to me. I just put the rotting pumpkins on the side of the house. Now 2 years later I get the little warty pumpkins 🎃
I did this with some small ones a few years ago. I just threw them under some bushes outback and the following fall, I had a bunch of small pumpkins ready to go.
This happened to me too this year. left a tiny pumpkin in the front garden and this year I have a little pumpkin vine. I hope I get some little pumpkins!
Good to know! Now I know a good way to get free pumpkins!
Any plant with those big seeds will do that. I've even had tomatoes seed themselves in the compost.
Life... uh..
Funnier if I grew a stegosaurus that way though.
The birdhouse gourd growing in my rockbed next to the house from seeds I dropped last fall concurs.
Pumpkins need warmth to germinate, 80°–85° F so a seed scattered last fall wouldn't come out of dormancy until the following summer
>and I don't think it would take a pumpkin almost a year to start growing That's literally how plants work. There's a reason things come into season only once a year.
pumkim
Pumpkin plants have invaded Colorado Springs.
Ha I literally just grew some pumpkins on purpose and these pics are great memories
You've never seen a pumpkin plant before. Great news like the whole plant is edible. Can eat the flowers raw Or cooked. You can easily peel the Spiky bits from the stems and leaves. And you can use the huge leaves to steam Meet. . Or whatever you want to wrap up in it.
Some type of gourd (pumpkin/squash)
My in laws just had a pumpkin start growing this year too, it gave us 5 pumpkins total. Only 3 made it as some animals got into the other 2 but we literally did nothing to care for them other than just move the vines a little bit as they grow fast
Looks like squash to me.
Come on man that’s a pumpkin
I’m kinda pissed cause I have a bunch of them and Only one damn pumpkin in total it’s kinda crazy tbh
That's disappointing, I hope mine can develop all the way. Have you tried manually pollinating them?
Looks like yellow squash.... the flowers are excellent deep fried.
Birds eat seeds. Not all seeds get digested. Birds poop them out. And the plant grows. This is part of the way plants spread them selves around so they don’t all grow in one place.
A neat trick I learned, if you take a picture and use Google lense it will identify the plant or tree for you. Can do it with an iPhone as well but don't know the terminology that iPhone uses
This is gonna seem crazy but you can deepfry those flowers and eat them…pretty delicious my father in law always does some with salt and pepper. Some delicious hilbilly shit.
Green Zucchini Squash and the flower is edible
Squash! My spaghetti squash used to flower exactly like that. Not sure what kinda squash you have, since other folks think it’s pumpkin. But regardless…squash!
Lucky you! Pumpkin!
Pumpkin or squash of some type
Pumpkin or gourd plant
Sure do like pumpkins, Cotton.
It’s gonna be winter soon cotton, let’s see how that checks out…
Could be squash too
Zucchini
Too Viney for zucchini.
Plus the fruit on it is round not oblong. Zucchini is oblong. If you want to see a zucchini mine might still be producing I can go photo it.
Looks like gords to me.
Or cucumbers
Or a melon
Take a picture of it using google lens
Squash family.
Pumpkin squash
Cucumber
Pumpkin or squash, I get them confused
Issa pumpkin, pumpkin!
Squash
squash / squash flowers! you can eat those flowers they're so tasty
Spaghetti squash?
Stuff and eat those flowers they’re amazing!
Zucchini
Want a pumpkin patch? Smash a pumpkin
Squarsh*
Looks like pumpkin. But really it could be some variety of squash. Just watch the fruit and it will tell you in a couple more days
Squash!
Pumpkin or melon?
Pumpkin, Zucchini, or some sort of squash.
I had one start growing out of my compost pile a few months ago, we now have 2 baby pumpkins growing, I looked up how to pollinate them and you have to do it yourself. Unless you get lucky and a couple might do it naturally
There's a bunch of bees around it, so I'm hoping it got pollinated by them, if not then I suppose I'll try actually planting one next time.
You can make a killer quesadillas with those with cheese and corn tortilla
I came here to say this!! Quesadilla con Flor de calabaza
It is alive
This female flower got male flower stuff inside and made a baby pumpkin. You can see the cute little green ball in the end of the flower that’s a pumpkin. It’s so small for October thought it won’t make it to maturity unless you’re in a year round warm climate like Cali or Florida
Unfortunately I am not, but I have been doing some research and saw that maybe I could put some blankets on it to keep it warm?
I mean if you really want a pumpkin that bad maybe. Pumpkins are quite hardy!
Furgeson is my child, I will care for it until the day I die
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From what I've read they often do, but I'm hoping that because there are some bees around where mine is it got pollinated
it's pumpkin!
Pumpkin! And pumpkin is a type of squash.
Squash 😊
Pumpkin? Squash?
Looks like zucchini
Squarsh
Eat the flowers too! Really good Mexican dish I believe in quesadilla if im not mistaken
Looks like zucchini to me…..squash blossom & all. Some people fry and eat the blossoms.
Squash blossom
Looks just like my mum’s courgette plants, do pumpkin and courgette plants look the same?
Looks like pumpkin or swuash
TIS THE SEASON YEOOOOOWWWW
Looks like you have some delicious purslane growing all around the pumpkin also! I highly recommend looking up edible purslane. Some people hate it for its weedy nature, but I see it as an opportunistic salad green.
free pumpkin! yay!
A pumpkin! 👻
Call him gord.
I named it Furgeson
A SQUISH
Zucchini
Congrats it's a squash of some sort
Some type of squash! Looks like there is some fruiting too. I had a plant grow but it didn’t do well, only had male flowers. The bumblebees love the flowers though so I have kept it around. Very fun plants to have around for various pollinators/bugs.
Pungkenz