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Please help me tell the difference between pumpkin flowers

growingup
16 years ago

I need to manually pollinate. We have no bees. I've maybe seen one, and he hasn't been back. My pumpkins are flowering. I looked at the flowers on the internet and none of mine seem to match. THese are the first round of flowers, so I would say they were male, but they all have a little bulbous at the bottom. Not a huge one that looks like a mini-fruit (such as the ones on the internet), but just a bit of a bulg. No flowers seem to be coming straight off the stem. However, when I look into them, they have what looks like a stamen, not the female part. I have nothing to compare them too. They all almost look like they are females from the outside, but males from the inside. That would mean I have no females right now right? And males only bloom for one day. So when and if my females emerge, will I have any males to polinate it with or should I be gathering pollen right now from the males and save it some how?

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