This is a male pumpkin flower. You can tell because it just has a long thin stem straight to the flower.
This is a female pumpkin flower. You can tell because it has a baby pumpkin at the base of the flower. The baby pumpkin is attached to a thick stem. Hopefully this baby pumpkin will grow in to a big, orange pumpkin.
Female pumpkin flowers have to be fertilized with the pollen of male pumpkin flowers. Sometimes bees take the pollen from the male to the female. Sometimes my mom does it. She brushes the pollen from the boy flower on to the girl flower.
This is our biggest pumpkin so far. It is around the same size as a lemon. To grow bigger pumpkins need water and sunlight. Right now it is really cold in El Cerrito and windy. I hope the sun comes out so the plants can grow. My mom also gives pumpkins fertilizer from a bag. It is kind of like vitamins for pumpkins.
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