Hapayu Gardening is a brand new KZread channel featuring gardening-related videos, hosted by Kevin Yu. My mission here on Hapayu Gardening is to share the knowledge and experience that I have picked up over the years for both outdoor and indoor gardening. My videos will include plant care tips, various experiments, unboxing videos of gardening supplies, addressing various gardening problems, and more.
About Kevin:
Gardening has been a lifelong hobby of mine, starting way back when I was a toddler "helping" out in my mother's backyard garden. Over the years, I learned a great deal about indoor and outdoor gardening from both experience and research. I really enjoy vegetable gardening, landscaping, indoor plants, hydroponics, plant propagation, and lawn care.
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Is the general goal to have two to four plants per mound? Or does it depend on the specific type of pumpkin (or expected size of fruit? - I think most of mine are not expected to be too big)?
I love how you talk to the plants, I do the same. I feel badly but they are still useful as compost. 🌱 ❤️
I live in Georgia,I have a pumpkin vine that we did not intentionally plant(a single vine with a single pumpkin). It is July 2nd and it is already 90% orange stem is still green. Any advice other than leave it on the vine? Vine looks healthy and is not being attacked by bugs. Gets watered daily, but sits in full sun the majority of the day.
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FAVORITE Pumpkin 🎃 information. Not a fan of increased LOUD music 😢 your voice is perfect. LOUD music is awful 😮
What about compost tea?
My pumpkins plant all flower forms what should do
Thank goodness you’re back!!!! I’m new to growing pumpkins and your videos help me so much! You explain things so well and you’re just a likable guy! Family always comes first. I hope there will be a little time to make more videos. You’re worth the wait! Thank you!!!
I like this video so much. I usually can't get through a whole video without the person who is speaking getting on my last nerve. So easy to listen to you!, DIY frugality is on point, and nice pumpkins!Thanks!
You by far explain everything in detail and in simple terms!!! You rock sir 🎉🎉🎉
what are you using to control the pests? squash vine borer, melon worms & squash bugs
Thank you
Watching to see if the vines I see coming up are my pumpkins sprouting! I tried purposely planting seeds& they didn’t take. So this year? I just slung pumpkin guts around. Mine has vines tho… looks like it’s starting to grow flowers already Edit/ I’m starting to worry the vines I have are indeed not the pumpkins😭😢
Hi Friend. I see that you have a lot of grass where you are planting the pumpkins. I plant pumpkins in the past in my lower raise beds and let the vines grow out on the grass. The problem I had in my area is that I could not mow the grass where the pumpkins developed, and by the time the pumpkins are ready to harvest,the grass are allready knee hight and I can’t see where the pumpkins are and afraid of snakes. I think next time when put the seeds in the ground, I am going to spray herbicide to kill off the grass first.
I can't find any cattle fencing...wonder what else I could use?
This is exactly what I was looking for. But how often do you fertilize?
Ive heard to put seed in standing up not on its side. If its on its side water will sit on it,which can ruin the seed.
I stumbled on your 4 in 1 asian pear tree. I would love an update on how the tree is going!
I was planning on trellising my gourds this year. So happy I found your video & channel!
Day made thank you so much
Found you from the long hot video - I've been looking for non-hybrid seeds to buy and stumbled across the channel. As someone from the Philly suburbs (Chester county) I'm hoping to see more videos this growing season!
2 things you did was keep pruning and adding fertilizer throughout the growth season. Thanks for sharing
I have a question, that why dont you keep enogh space when you plant your seeds. Its sad to see cutting those beautiful plants. Thank you for the infomative videos
I love that you DONT have background music!❤
On my pumpkins and melons baking soda works. Baking soda and water in a pump sprayer. On my gooseberries only copper worked, baking soda/milk/neem did not work. On my trees neem usually works on leaf spot and rust.
Hi Kevin, Have you heard of using hydrogen peroxide? I personally haven’t tried it but heard another gardener, here on the tube, swear by it. Just wondering. Powdery mildew was the demise of my patch this year. I’m researching prevention and remedies for next year. God willing, I’ll be more educated and prepared for next year’s pumpkin patch endeavor 😄 zone 9b S. California✌🏼
I have powdery mildew starting on 3 of my leafs but they are in the middle I'm trying to get to them to cut anyways thanks for the vid
Green and orange buttercup and Cinderella are the best.
That's really interesting about the carotenoids, I didn't know that about pumpkins! And I'm amazed that your vine is all from one plant, and that it has so many pumpkins! Despite fertilizing my pumpkin vines and routinely checking on them for insect damage, I never really get too many secondary runners- just really long main vines. And I really only get one pumpkin per plant, two or three if I'm really lucky, even when the variety calls for much more! Great video as always. Looking forward to more!
Something that helps is cut off male and female flowers early in the season. This lets the plant focus engery on the vines and you should get bigger and longer healthy vines. After you are happy with your vines start to let the flowers polinate and grow. You will notice with bigger and longer vines you will get more pumpkins. You should aslo elevate your pumpkins early on and use a material that doesnt hold moisture. Plastic mesh baskets from a dollar store work well. When the pumpkin starts to turn orange it is done growing, part of its life cycle. You can harvest at this point or wait till its fully orange. After harvesting let it sit in the sun for a week to cure then store in a cool dark place untill you are ready.
I’m so glad you’re back! I’ve learned so much about pumpkin growing from your videos! Thanks for sharing the wisdom you’ve gained over the years. Can you share where you purchased your pumpkin seeds from?
Thank you for your support and I'm glad to have been able to help. I've purchased my pumpkin seeds directly from Burpee as well as from Home Depot. Germination rates were great for both. This year, I was a little late to the game so I actually purchased my Jack O Lantern seedlings from Lowe's. I hope this helps.
Silly question here… can you tell me your watering schedule throughout the season, or until harvest?
Not a silly question at all! In general, I follow the recommendation of minimum of 1-2 inches of water per week. In prior years, I used drip irrigation. I ran it daily for about 20-40 minutes. This was actually too much for my front yard back in 2021 and my ground was saturated, so I dialed it back. This summer, I've actually been using a regular sprinkler. I'm watering about every 2-3 days for 30-40 minutes each... depending on the weather and temperature. Watering deep is key... you want the water to seep deep into your soil, but not to the point where the ground is squishing with water. Hope this helps!
You’re back! I use to watch your pumpkins back in 2019. Love your content
Thank you! Have you been growing pumpkins? If so, what kind and how'd you make out?
@@HapayuGardening I’ve attempted and failed 4 years in a row so far lol. I haven’t been able to keep them alive in the Texas heat
@@aaronkelly3035 How far are you getting? Are you getting any pumpkins are are your vines dying before even getting any? And what varieties have you tried growing?
It’s great to hear from you again
Thank you and thanks for your support!
I found you from the pumpkin video! Glad you are back
Thank you! I'll be posting at least 2-3 more pumpkin-related videos in the coming month and hope to post new videos next growing season.
Hey! I didn't even know I was still subscribed 😄 Great to see you. I now remember subbing for the pumpkins. Life happens bro. Don't sweat it.
Lol... I've done that myself. Thank you for the support and kind words.
Kevin! It's great to see you again! In years past, your videos have taught me much about growing pumpkins- it's because of you that I finally found success with my pumpkin patch! I'll most definitely be rewatching your old videos and tuning in for new ones. And should you have to go on another hiatus, I'm sure I speak on behalf of everyone else when I say that we completely understand and want only the best for you, your family and your job. I wish you well and I look forward to your new uploads! 🎃🎃
Thank you for the amazing words and your support! My whole mission when I started this channel was to inspire and help others. Are you growing any this year? If so, what kind and how's it going?
@@HapayuGardening Yeah, I'm growing pumpkins again this year! I planted quite a few varieties like Cronus, Moonshine, Field Trip, Gladiator and a few others. Last year was quite the turnout, I got 25 pumpkins- but this year, I planted more and got less! All of the bugs got the memo from last year that this was the yard with the squash plants in it and they really overwhelmed me this time around (especially because I had, like, 50 something individual pumpkin plants... it was a buffet for them!), so any yield is a good yield at this point. I think the bugs are especially bad because I live fairly close to a commercial farm that produces the bulk of the area's pumpkin supply. From the looks of things, I'll probably finish with about ten or twelve, not including some miniature varieties I also grew. I made sure to film the progress along the way, so I hope to make a video about it eventually! But again, it's thanks to you that I've found the success that I have with growing pumpkins. So thank you for sharing your garden with us, it's been very educational and entertaining 🎃🎃
@@Finswerion I would love to to see your pumpkin patch! Any pictures or videos? You have me wondering right now... in 2017, I grew a total of 4 different vines and yielded about 15 pumpkins, given 6 of them were from larger varieties (hence less pumpkins). But this year, I only have 1 vine and I currently have 19+ pumpkins on the single vine. I'm going to look into this and wonder if it's a competition of resources. Though no denying... pests definitely can impact yield. How large is your pumpkin patch? And what kind of bugs? I had a problem with squash vine borers in July and early August, but was able to save my vine with some surgery and weekly application of bacillus thuringiensis.
@@HapayuGardening If all goes well, I should be making a video about my patch sometime in October! I'd be delighted for you to see. That is rather curious though, about the vine's yield potential. I mentioned in another comment on your newest video that when I plant my pumpkins, no matter what I seem to do, the vines rarely have secondary runner vines and I usually only get 1-2 pumpkins per plant, even on smaller varieties. But the vines are usually extremely healthy otherwise- big, leafy and green. It's odd. Like you say though, I wouldn't be surprised if a competition of resources had something to do with it, especially in my case. I didn't mulch this year at all so the weeds have gotten extremely out of control toward the end of the summer, and they certainly aren't helping matters any. And the bugs, whew! I deal with what I personally refer to as the "Big 3," which I consider to be vine borers, cucumber beetles, and squash bugs. And when I tell you that the vine borers were out in full force this year, they really were. I read somewhere that they come in two waves, once mid summer and again at the end of summer, but I've been consistently seeing at least one vine borer moth every single morning this whole growing season. It's been absolutely maddening. And so, so much damage, too. Between the cucumber beetles transmitting bacterial wilt and the vine borers doing their thing, I've lost so many plants. Like you mentioned, I also use BT- and I even practice the quote-on-quote "forbidden" technique of diluting the BT and directly injecting it into the vine where there is evidence of borers. It certainly works, I've cut open vines and found quite a few dead vine borers, but it was just a matter of keeping up with injections on ALL 50 pumpkin plants several times a week and I just couldn't handle it, time-wise and resource-wise. I'll definitely have to scale it back next year, haha. I got a little ahead of myself. The yard I grow in is 100 x 50, but not all of that space gets used- especially because I didn't want to dig up and ruin the grass. So the very sides of the yard are bare from previous flower gardens many years ago and pumpkin plants are spaced there maybe every 5 feet for about 70 feet. In the center of the yard, I experimented with growing smaller varieties of pumpkins in 10 gallon buckets, and larger varieties in big trash cans (which were a pain to fill with dirt! It's a mix of native soil and garden soil). The bucket pumpkins took a huge hit from the cucumber beetles and squash bugs, even through neem oil applications, and the vine borers made short work of them since they were so small and stunted. The squash bugs were actually so settled in my yard that a predatory species known as feather-legged flies that prey on squash bugs started showing up and feeding on them, but they didn't seem to help too much. In fact, toward the end of the summer, the squash bug population boomed and the feather-legged flies were nowhere to be seen. Still neat to see, though. Sorry for the rambling, I didn't mean for this to turn into such a long comment! Hopefully if I ever upload that video you'll see all of these things I'm talking about for yourself. I'm looking forward to your completed harvest, it's really cool that you grew such a big, healthy plant with so many pumpkins on it!
@@Finswerion Yes, I definitely would like to see your patch. I'm really curious about why your vines aren't growing secondary runners. By the general rule of thumb of 50-100 sq ft per vine, 50 vines is within the limit for yoru 5000 sq ft area. But to give you a rough idea, my single Jack O Lantern vine this year is taking up approximately 300-400 sq ft. Are you using any fertilizers and/or compost? Not have secondary runners is likely one of the factors of your low yield. Since leaves are the power house of plants, these secondary vines will help your plants get the necessary energy and resources to grow more fruit. These runners also provide more secondary roots for yours vines to get more resources. I totally feel your pain about vine borers and cucumber beetles. I've been fighting bacterial wilt over the past month as well. I'm constantly spraying neem oil and if I let up just for a week, I start losing the battle. I'm fortunate that we don't seem to get the second wave of vine borers where I live. They did a major number on my zucchini plants and made the stems very gnarly looking. I hope I'm not jinxing myself, but squash bugs is one pest that I fortunatley have not had to deal with in our area. Looking forward to seeing your patch!
Great job and informative video
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why wouldn't you just use a Qtip or a paint brush rather than ripping off the flower?
You definitely could! I rip off the flower because pumpkin flowers only last a day. After I rip them off and use them for pollinating, I throw it into my compost pile or my lawn.
@@HapayuGardening I was just curious, makes sense since, i got one right now that is doing that i suppose, Growing male & female flowers at seperate times.
@@KingKatura Also, by ripping off the male flower and using it to pollinate the female flowers helps ensure a lot of pollination. But if you think about it, nature's natural pollinators, such as bees, is very similar to using a q-tip. My experience has also shown having male and female flowers at separate times, particularly when the vine is young. However, during the peak of flowering, you should have both male and females at the same time.
August 2023 Hi there! I live in Washington State. I had an idea of a wooden trellis for my pumpkin plant; however, I came to You Tube searching for gardener ideas on You Tube and located your page. I have subscribed. I am not sure if you are still gardening. It shows 6 years ago. I like your trellis ideas. The fold up one is closer to my design I have in my mind. I did not have the idea to place folding hinges at the top, so that my friend is an added idea I thank you for. Hoping all is well, thank you and God bless!
Great timing, I actually just revived my channel this season. I used those trellis through 2019. The fold up made it easy for me to tuck away behind my shed during the winter. Unfortunately, being exposed to the elements year round and the abundance of termites in our area got to them. Next time I build them, I will be using treated lumber.
Hi there again. The fold up trellis is working great. At the end of the season, I will remember to fold and put in the garage until I build a shed. Thanks again! Happy gardening and thanks for updating.
@@lavernabouzspain Happy gardening!
Thanks! And do you have any links or places were to buy the fertilizers you use in the video? I have trouble finding some.
Sorry for the late response. Hope you found fertilizer during this time. If not, I typically buy my organic fertilizers either from Lowe's or Home Depot. For some of the more unique ones (such as Bone Meal), I find them at local nurseries/garden centers. Worst comes to worst, they're available on Amazon though I find them to be more expensive there. Hope this helps!
Thanks for the excellent information!
Thank you!
I really enjoyed this series! I'm currently trying to grow my own pumpkins. Is there anywhere I can see how big your pumpkins grew?
Sorry for the late response. Check out my latest video I just posted today (kzread.info/dash/bejne/aX1ny7epdseuk5c.htmlsi=6iWR-kbOvK7p8-PF) and you'll see a couple snippets of my 2017 results. Stay tuned, I plan to make a video in the coming weeks talking more about my past results.
What is deflating my pumpkins? They’ll get like up to ~8” long then we go out the next time and look and they’re flat. We’ve lost 5 so far this year.
I'm sorry for the late response. Not sure if you've been able to figure anything out yet. Few questions and thoughts... 1) What kind of pumpkins are you growing? 2) How do your vines and leaves look? 3) How often are you watering? 4) Where do you live and how has the weather been? In short, most common causes are stress (heat, sun, cold, etc), diseases, and/or insects. Lastly, it could also be that your pumpkins weren't properly pollinated.
I'm glad to see the pumpkin patch! It looks great!
Instead of a circular mound, you can do a linear mound and you could keep That vine you had to cut, even though it was a fast grower. and if something doesn’t germinate, it’s perfectly fine it’s just more space between plants.
Can you please give me an answer
I apologize for the late response. It's probably too late, but yes, pumpkins do need direct sunlight. While you can grow pumpkins in shade or part shade, you're likely to have smaller and/or less pumpkins. Diseases such as powdery mildew also become a challenge when growing pumpkin vines in the shade.
I'm wondering if the pumpkins need to be in direct sunlight I have it underneath the giant tree
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You are such a good teacher!
Thank you!