Pumpkin

Pumpkin bloomed her first flush on June 12. It didn't get as dark as last fall.

Sept. 6, she bloomed with some darker color and of course...it was about that time that the cucumber beetles got hungry. They left a couple of blooms for us to take pictures of.

Very pretty. Are those your cows?

LOL! I wish they were. I'd take better care of them than the owner does. They ate that pasture down to nothing. Our crop farmers had a good year, but those that depended on pasture, didn't have much. My yard was mowed two times since the first week in July. That's pretty dry.

It's beautiful Brugie, I sure hope it does well for you, It's not that often you see a dark orange. and they are so beautiful.

kathy

Brugie, your pumpkin is wonderful..love that orange color....Judy

Are they short and not trees because you took cuttings above the Y?

It's funny how this one grows......this was actually a trunk cutting and it grew a lot of side shoots from that cutting. That is what is blooming. By the end of the summer, it was still a bush at about 4 ft. tall. I was surprised. I figured it would be like other cuttings from the trunk and grow a big tall and straight shoot. This is a Champagne Fizz x Inca Sun seedling and Inca Sun was always short and bushy for me, but one heck of a bloomer.

lovely lovely never knew one named pumpkin... take care... blessings.

Twyla

What a pretty orange! It bloomed just in time for Thanksgiving!

Very pretty color and I love the long calyx.
I can't wait to see what comes out of the AR cross.

Still is a great beauty Shirley. I love it

Thanks everyone. Terry, it will be fun growing that cross out for you because I'll be anxious to see the end results too. Kyle told me that the orange color probably comes from Inca Sun who has Insignis Orange (hope I got that right) as one of it's parents. I hope we don't get a lot of whites from the cross.

Pumpkin, fall of 2005, probably early October.

Hi Shirley. We've not met, so (shaking your hand) glad to meet cha! That is one gorgeous orange! Very nice. Looking forward to seeing how it does for you next year.

Barb

Hi Barb. It's nice to meet you. I'm still reading a lot and trying to get caught up. I'll probably run across some of your posts in this forum and get to know you better then. Thanks for popping in. I'm glad you like Pumpkin.

what a beautiful brug, shirley. love the lush foliage, too.

So pretty, and I agree the foilage looks bluish. Very pretty combination!!
Bonnie

Brugie, Inca Sun did have Insignis Orange as a parent. most crosses with Inca Sun tend to stay short and bloom well.My Inca Sun is always in flower in the summer.Strong aurea genes in it.
:-)

Thanks Kyle, I thought I was remembering right.

What does the term Insignis mean? and aurea genes?

love betty's question, shirley. i've read about the forms and crosses, but would love to hear it in "plain" talk. thanks.

would really love to study the forms, but i haven't really seen many brugs up close and personal.

Hi Brugie.. I just talked to Kyle for about half an hour & he told me about the pumpkin color brug you have & as I was bringing up the post!! My Daughter brought me over 3 loaves of pumpkin bread,(sorry I can't share them with everyone).

I have 3 brugs..2 pink & 1 white so maybe I can talk someone into bringing me a yellow & a orange cutting to the Iowaroundup this spring.
Jerry.

What a gorgeous color! Perfect name for it.
:) Donna

There are several species of brugs.....(aurea, candida, suaveolens, insignis, versicolor), (sanguinea, arborea, flava, and vulcanicola). The first five are able to be crossed to each other and the last four can be crossed to each other, but luck putting the two groups together doesn't work. I believe a cross has been made before, but nothing worth talking about. Monika is the one that knows more about this than I do. I believe she may have been able to make the cross from one group to the other, but don't hold me to that statement.

If you cross a pure aurea with a pure versicolor, you will get a candida. An insignis is a suaveolens x versicolor, crossed back to a suaveolens. If you cross an arborea with a sanguinea, you will get a flava. I know very little about the last group. Just that they prefer cooler temps and some, if not all, are self sterile. The reason we have few candidas in the US is because of our lack of pure aurea or pure versicolor plants.

Jerry, the problem with cuttings in the spring is that I just don't have any. I take my cuttings in the fall and by roundup time, they are still not much more than a rooted cutting at that point. Wish I could help, but you will just have to give me a holler in the early fall before frost. Then I can send you some or you can come down and get what you want.

Thanks for sharing your beauty again I just adore Pumpkin!!

I saw a lovely pumpkin/custard pie today. I wonder if pumpkin cheesecake would be good?

Very nice.