I'm having to hand pollinate my "might be Kumi Kumi" they taste ok, but not the same as i remember, I'd like someone to tell me which is the right shape, and colour, I'm going to do my darnest to get the right seed this year, and grow as many as I can next year, even though I live along, 1 oe 2 kumo kumo a week, just isn't enough for me :)
les6,
Feb 17, 5:36pm
look like what I know as kamo kamo,just the way you say it,same thing!
cinderellagowns,
Feb 17, 5:59pm
Looks exactly what I have been given as a Kumi Kumi. Incidently - how do you eat yours canz! Prepared to share a recipe or two! My kumi kumi has been sitting on the bench for a few days waiting for inspirATION.
cinderellagowns,
Feb 17, 6:02pm
The first image I mean. Quite fat = not so long (compared to girth) as some of those other images.
bop,
Feb 17, 6:29pm
how do youpollinate them Ihad alook at most of the orangeflowers ,almost all of thethem have abulbunderneath flower!
bop,
Feb 17, 8:26pm
ourgarden is covered intheflowers but notproducingthe kamo kamo, any reasons what wecouldbe doingwrong!
canz,
Feb 17, 9:34pm
cinderellagowns : Cooking. Half, steam or biol with a bit in salty water, add lots of butter. Half, salt pepper, bacon slices, wrap in tin foil, cook in oven, or roat with pork or chicken :) A bulb under flower is the male flower, a small kumi kumi under flower is femail flower. Pick male flower, take all petals off it, push male boy looking bit into female girl looking bit, rub boy bit around outside of girl bit, just like making love, pumpkin style. :) Bop. Like i said, I have to hand pollinate, since the shortage of bee's, you can also use a kids pain brush, just rub gently around the inside of flower, and do the same on girl flowers Boy even looks like a penis, http://www.giantpumpkins.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/male_flower.jpg Girl looks like its made for the boy flower. http://giantveggiegardener.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/female-flower-stigma.jpg
cinderellagowns,
Feb 17, 9:50pm
Oh my goodnesss - thanks for the recipes and the description of pumpkin love!
bop,
Feb 17, 11:06pm
pumpking lovemwhahaha most ofour flowerslook like male ones, wonder why lacking thefemale variety do you sell the seedscanz! all we got is one kamo kamo all season lol
lambrat,
Feb 18, 1:25am
watering more this year and not shaded by anything so my squash has taken offbut with very few flowers, and no bees this late in the season either :(
canz,
Feb 18, 3:16am
lol Pumpkin love that's clever. wish I had thought of that cinderellagowns.
I had only male flowers for the longest time, only in the past 3 weeks, inChristchurch, have females started showing, I have cut 6 green ones(all so far). I just hand pollinated 1 flower this morning, and cab see about 5 very small female flowers on the end of the vine. Thinking about it, I didn't get any female flowers until I picked the tips of the 2 main runners about a month ago. Now I'm getting lateral runners from most leaves of those main ones, and they have the female flowers. I had 3 female flowers I didn't hand pollinate and they just turned yellow and dried up when they are about golf ball sized.
I just googled lack of flowers on pumpkin, and it said "I recommend a dose of Phosphorous fertilizer. which promotes flowering, and reducing nitrogen, which promotes leaf growth" So look through your stash of fertilizers, at the NPK ratings, and look for one with highest middle number or equal 1st and 2nd numbers. Looking at my stash Bonemeal is the winner, I also read elsewhere that Cow manure is a good all-rounder and high inPhosphorus, but don't have any :( N Nitrogen % P Phosphorus % K Potassium (Potash) % Bloodmeal 12 0 0 Bonemeal3.5 18 0 Fish, Blood & Bone 6 6 6 Cow manure 112.
ne last thing, from googling, Phosphorus leeches out of the soil easily, so its worth applying often.
About seeds, if the bonemeal works, you betcha I'll have seeds to sell :)
bop,
Mar 15, 8:03am
ok thanks, mighttry to put a bit of phoshorus fertilizer in next season, Im abeginer at this lol
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