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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social

I am growing pumpkins for the 1st time & enjoying seeing how they morph from this bulb (ovary) under the female flowers into a plasticy-smooth, but vaguely pumpkin-direction sphere

Closeup photo of a yellow, vaguely tulip-shaped flower with green veining, coming out of a thick green vine over a roughly golfball-sized light green bead-like bulb. It's a flower on a pumpkin plant. Closeup photo of a yellow, wilted and wrapped tightly closed flower with green veining, coming out of a thick green vine over a roughly more-than-golfball-sized light green bead-like bulb. It's fruit on a pumpkin plant. Closeup photo of a light yellow sphere, smaller than a basketball and with a plastic-smooth surface, coming out of a thick green vine. It's a very young pumpkin on a pumpkin plant.
aug 30, 2025, 11:43 pm • 34 0

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Matt Schneider @mattlaschneider.bsky.social

Blueberries and Saskatoon berries are really great for that too—it’s fascinating seeing how iconic features of the berry are actually petals

aug 30, 2025, 11:45 pm • 3 0 • view