How to grow pumpkins indoors
Pumpkins can be grown indoors by following these steps:
- Get pumpkin seeds by purchasing them or from other pumpkin plants.
- Find a plastic cup and fill it with compound or natural fertilizer and dig a small hole in the fertilizer using your finger.
- Place the seeds at a depth of about 1.25 cm down, and you must make sure that they are not too deep before covering the hole with more fertilizer.
- Irrigate the squash seeds every day, and make sure that the soil is not wet more than it needs. Because the seeds will die.
- Wait a few weeks for all the pumpkin seeds to appear, so that they are planted in clay pots, and care must be taken not to harm the roots of the pumpkins. Because she will die.
- Inserting a wedge or stick about six feet long next to the pumpkin plant in the clay pot, where the gourd wraps around the wedge or stick, and after a while the gourd will produce flowers, which is a sign that it will soon ripen.
- Do the pollination of the flowers given that the squash plant is indoors and there is no possibility of obtaining pollination from bees or other insects. Be the one responsible for pollination of the flowers so that the plant can produce the squash.
- When the plant's flowers are growing, make sure it gets enough light and water.
- When the squash reaches the color of maturity, this means that it is ready to be harvested, and the harvest is done by cutting it from the top of the squash plant by about 5 cm.
Pumpkin planting time
There are four types of squash that are grown in the same way, and they are from different species, and it is recommended that they not be combined with others, and they are grown in gardens, namely: winter squash, honey, summer squash, and pumpkin. Or it is grown indoors by transferring the planting and replanting it again outside the house in the spring.
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The required conditions must be observed when cultivating pumpkins, and among these conditions:
- Make the spacing between the pumpkin plants about 30 cm.
- Make the spacing in the ridges spaced approximately 15 cm.
- Planting 6-8 seeds in one hill, after which the number is reduced by planting 3-4 seeds in each hill.
- Sowing the seeds in a small mound of dirt about 2 cm deep, as this improves soil drainage, makes it warm with the effect of sunlight, and accelerates germination.
