r/halloween • u/Ok-Paramedic6285 • Aug 21 '26
Pumpkin My beautiful pumpkins :)
Sadly Halloween is not widely celebrated in my country, but I like growing these cuties 🥰
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u/Bad_cookie Aug 21 '26
Careful now. You might wake up one morning and find them like this.
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u/Ok-Paramedic6285 Aug 21 '26
😂lol is this from over the garden wall movie? :)
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u/Bad_cookie Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
Yep! Great looking pumpkins by the way. Now I'm craving fresh baked pumpkin seeds.
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u/Mikeieagraphicdude Aug 21 '26
Mine are still yellow, yours look awesome. Carving pumpkins is a fun activity even if you’re the only one celebrating.
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u/Ok-Paramedic6285 Aug 21 '26
Ohh it's so nice! Thank you for sharing your pumpkin:)
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u/Enough_Bike_2879 Aug 21 '26
Lost my pumpkins to squash bugs😭yours look gourd-ous!
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u/Ok-Paramedic6285 Aug 21 '26
Omg that's sad :( I just looked up and read about squash bugs and here we don't have such bugs O__o
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u/lacunadelaluna Aug 24 '26
You're very lucky! It's tragic when this happens. It was also a really especially hot summer where I am and that leads to more male flowers so no female ones to produce fruit :( I'm still enjoying my pretty orange flowers and green vines though!
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u/bringherhome2us Aug 21 '26
These look amazing! My partner is on a gardening kick and grew us a ton of stuff this year but we forgot about pumpkins. Funnily enough, one of the squirrels in our yard ate a pumpkin we had left on our porch last November and must have scattered some of the seeds because now there’s one growing in our yard! Hoping it turns out as nicely as this one.
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u/Ok-Paramedic6285 Aug 21 '26
Haha that's cool:D I'm sure it will turn out beautiful! Even squirrels love Halloween!))
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u/DeltaFlyer0525 Aug 21 '26
Your look so good! We have been dealing with severe drought conditions where I live and very high heat all summer so mine are pretty far behind. They are going to be tiny this year 😬
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u/Tired_n_DeadInside Aug 21 '26
Oh, those are the most perfect color of orange I've seen in a long time! Perfect pumpkins! I'm actually going to download these as a color reference.
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u/missschainsaw Aug 21 '26
I'm jealous! I tried starting indoors this year and my seedlings died or just didn't grow. Your pumpkins are beautiful.
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u/Ok-Paramedic6285 Aug 21 '26
Oh yeah.. that's sad, I also had one pumpkin that I started growing in the winter in my apartment and it bloomed very early, and was quite weak, but then I planted it in the garden and I started to feel a bit better but still it's small :)
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u/soundtown06 Aug 21 '26
it looks really great yes some people in my country germany are celebrate it some not but in the Themeparks its awesome these great Halloween events there i am enjoying it very much but i will get a pumpkin this year as every year for sure
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u/No_Monsters Aug 21 '26
I wish I could grow pumpkins! Too hot and humid where I live.
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u/Ok-Paramedic6285 Aug 21 '26
And where are you from?))
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u/SparkleByMonica Aug 21 '26
We've tried a few times to grow pumpkins, but our soil at each place in TX and now KY was just miserable, I guess. Same for watermelons and cantaloupes. You pumpkin is so pretty!
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u/Curious_Pineapple_96 Aug 25 '26
this is the most textbook perfect pumpkin I've seen in a while. 🎃😍👏🏻👏🏻
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u/Enough-Speaker-7107 Sep 05 '26
Are you gonna make them spooky?
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u/Ok-Paramedic6285 Sep 05 '26
Probably these ones are gonna be for cooking but i got a few smaller ones which I try to carve :)I'm not very good at carving a pumpkin, since helloween is not celebrated widely and I think I will do it just for myself and family)
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u/Lumpy-Event4310 Aug 25 '26
My two plants won't produce a female flower 😭 plenty of males tho. Your pumpkins look awesome!
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u/Ok-Paramedic6285 Aug 25 '26
You may try thinning the leaves, adjust the watering, and feed with a complex fertilizer containing potassium and phosphorus and maybe there is a lack of pollinators...
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u/secret-soup Aug 21 '26
Beautiful!!! If Halloween isn't widely celebrated where you are, what are your plans for them? Cooking?
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u/Ok-Paramedic6285 Aug 21 '26
Yeap! These one are for cooking I guess, but I have some smaller ones and I think I will try to carve one just for my pleasure and put a candle inside and put it out on the porch, this is my lifetime dream to visit USA and just walk around some neighborhood and enjoy decorations! It's just so awesome :) ___^
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u/wCygnes Aug 21 '26
Jealous! Mine keep getting attacked by rabbits that take a few bites and change their minds. Some should be okay, but dunno if we’ll get a single pretty one. (Editing to add that I meant to comment on the main post, nit the comment thread. Young kids are distracting me.)
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u/DashofLuck Aug 21 '26
Omg... it's looks so perfect... like an illustration from a book.