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From: Robert Class City: Chicago, IL
If I pick off the male flowers on my pumpkin plant will the flowers with little pumpkins grow faster and better?
	Extension Message From: James Schuster Horticulturist and Plant Pathologist (Retired) schuster@illinois.edu
The first flowers on any vegetable vine crop are males. It does not matter if these are removed. Once female flowers start leave the male flowers. If you are going for large pumpkins removing all male and female flowers prevents more pumpkins forming so the food is channeled into the pumpkins you allowed to set. If you want really big pumpkins start with seeds that genetically make big pumpkins.
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