How to Grow Jack Be Little Pumpkins in Containers from Seed - Easy Planting Guide
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2021
- Easy step by step guide on how to grow Jack Be Little pumpkins in containers from seed. Planting guide from seed to harvest.
Another example of how to grow pumpkins in containers from seed.
Includes growing in fabric pots or grow bags, and how to make trellis to grow pumpkins vertically in pots.
Questions? please use the comment section.
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pumpkin pumpkin pumpkin! 🎃 im a 13 year old who wants to start gardening and i found this channel! thank you for the amazing tutorial 😊
So glad to hear that. Thank you very much for your comment and best of luck to you in your gardening adventure!😊
Where did you buy the tomato wire?
I got this tomato wire mesh at my local garden center. The brand is "Western fencing" and is distributed by BMD. Here is the link and you can contact them to see if they have it available in a store near your area www.bmdusa.com/western-fencing/ . If you cannot find it, you may use regular 2x4 wire mesh, or cut the 2x4 mesh to make it 4x4. I hope this helps and thank you for visiting!
Did you start one?
I’m only 13 but I love growing pumpkins, this year is going to be my first successful year of pumpkins. I have 1 plant with 2 pumpkins so far and for next year I am preparing a large patch!
That is great! happy growing and thank you for sharing!
Amazing! I can't wait to do this in my garden this year! This will be fun to do with my 2 1/2 year old. She'll love shoveling in thee dirt and helping to harvest when they're ready
Sounds wonderful! These are indeed very fun to grow. Happy growing and thank you so much for your comment!
Seriously my fav gardening channel 🌿🖤
Wow. So delighted and grateful for your comment. Thank you very much😊💚
Thank you 😀
Thanks for the comment!
Omg this pumpkin variety looks so fun and cute! 😍
It really is! Thank you so much for your comment!
All of your videos are great, but this one is probably my favorite because I love pumpkins. You've definitely inspired me to plant the Jack Be Littles next year. Thank you for another wonderful post.
So glad you loved this video. And your comments inspire me to post more videos. I appreciate you so much!😊
@@TowardGarden Your videos are so wonderful and inspirational. Thank you so much for your posts!
@@crowmoon Thank you!
very lovely 🍂🍁
Thank you😊
They look beautiful like little lanterns. Perfect to grow on a trellis and in containers or grow bags 👍
Thank you very much for your comment!
I have mine in grow bags and his trellis is a great idea.
So excited to try and grow these this year 🤞
Delighted to hear it. Best of luck to you and thank you very much for your comment!😊
Just planted some seedlings! This is very helpful!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much for the comment and happy growing!
Love your channel... No talking, Just gardening & great music! Thank you for these instructions 👍🏾☺️
So glad you love the videos. Thank you so much for your comment!!😊
I am very much looking forward to Fall 2022! 🎃🎃🍂🍂🍁🍁
How exciting! Thank you very much for visiting!😊
@@TowardGarden My pleasure!
I just found your channel and LOVE the way you film your videos from seed to harvest. This video inspired me to try this with Casperita mini white pumpkins this coming season. Thank you!
Delighted for your comment. Thank you very much!😊
Are the white pumpkins you're working with edible (I like the different colour morphs and varieties so I want to try growing them myself, but I would like to eat them too instead of only using mine for decoration)? Thanks and I hope you had a great harvest with your pumpkins.
I noticed there were no cotyledons on any of the plants you transferred. Did you remove them? Mine always start to not look so great by 30 days or so and I'm always hesitant whether to remove them or not since it's so close to the soil.
Also, I've seen just about every pumpkin growing video there is on UA-cam and this is by far the best video out there!!!! Nothing comes close! So glad you did a new video. Very informative and love that you included everything from start to finish that someone would need to know! So so helpful! Especially the trellis!
Interesting question. I usually leave them on the seedlings and often remove them at the time of transplanting. I do this not purposely and it is like a habit. They do help seedlings to grow better but I don't think it will make any difference if you want to keep them when planting. My intention is to keep the videos as simple as possible, and leave these kind of detail to gardeners to decide what works for them best. Nice thing about having multiple seedlings is that you can do experiments to grow them differently and plant only the healthiest ones.
I really appreciate you feedback and am delighted that you love my videos. Cheers and Happy gardening!😊
Great video! A treat for eyes and ears too.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much for your comment!
GREAT job sir
Thank you very much. Greatly appreciate your comment!
Daniel sent me. Jack you are awesome. I will enjoy your videos.
I started growing this variety and they are thriving! Thank you for making this video to inspire a pumpkin patch 🧡
Wow, so delighted to hear it. Happy harvesting and thank you so much for your comment!
So cute little pumpkins
Thank you so much!
They are cute, wonders if they taste good. I'm gonna try growing them
They taste amazing when cooked. Well worth trying. Happy growing and thank you for your comment!
Very good video!!!
Thank you very much!
A pumpkin produces many fruits😍
Sure it does. Thank you for your comment!😊
I'm 10 years old so I'm trying to start my journey fairly young and I got a pumpkin from school and I'm trying to grow one. Thank you so much.
That sounds amazing. Thank you very much for your comment and best of luck to you in your gardening journey.
Great video! I now feel inspired to try growing these guys too. Hopefully I have a bountiful harvest luke you had with your plants. Thanks.
Glad to hear it. Thank you so much and wish you a great harvest!
Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you so much for your comment!
Awesome footage! I just started growing my first pumpkin patch this year as I now have a backyard garden. Unfortunately I've had alot of problems with beetles. The roots got rot, and hollowed out by insects. Plus I didn't trim back as much to allow sun and airflow. I did get six pumpkins small and large this summer! Maybe try your vertical growth method next season! Great practical trellis too! Thanks again for your videos!
Sounds great. I found it that growing vertically yield to much healthier plants. Glad that you like the video and thank you so much for your comment!
Love your channel!🎉
Glad you enjoy it! Thank you so much! 😊
Your garden videos are very good for my garden😊
So glad t hear it. Thank you so much for your comment!😊
Wow that is sure a very small pumpkin
You grow such beautiful squashes ..... Congrations
Thank you so much for your comment!
What a great video!
Thank you so much for your comment!
This is great I love it I will try this method wonderful.
Glad you love the video. Happy growing and thank you so much for your comment!
My 5yo nephew LOVES pumpkins. I just might have to grow this variety for him next year so he can have a tiny variety - they're so cute!
Your nephew will love this. easy to grow and very cute little pumpkins (and very tasty too). You can also try to grow other mini pumpkins I have a video on that, much easier since it needs no trellis ( ua-cam.com/video/GGsKF6Yefig/v-deo.html ). Thank you for your comment and happy growing!
Did you do it?
@@brianwest7441 In 2024. Couldn't find any seeds last season but finally tracked some down!
@AJR-zg2py fantastic. Happy growing and wish you a great harvest🌱😊
Thank you so much!
Thank you very much for leaving a comment😊
New subscriber. Your video’s are so enjoyable and informative. I learn so much from each one. So professionally done and I’m blown away by the quality and health of your starts - just wow! Please keep making more. Could you do one for Sugar Baby watermelons please?😊 Also, wondering what kind of grow lights you use? Thanks!
Wow, so delighted to see your comment! I will try to grow Sugar Baby watermelon. And I generally don't use grow lights. I have a shed like room in my backyard where I keep my seed trays until the seedlings sprout. As soon as they pop out, I move them outside in indirect sunlight (or 3-4 hours of direct morning sunlight). I hope this helps and thank you so much for your comment!😊
I also wanna plant these ones next summer or spring, and a whole lot of others. Afterall i started gardening at age 5 and now im 14 and ill forever enjoy gardening!
Thank you for visiting!
Hello, thanks for sharing
Hello and thank you very much for your comment!
Good job sir 👍.
Thank you very much!
all vertices of paper video please
I think you mean all varieties of peppers. Sure I will try to upload peppers too. Thank you very much for visiting!
Omg, I just found your channel and I love it!!! Fabulous tutorials!!!Does a plant give one harvest or will it continue to give over and over in one season? And how much sun do they need? I live in NorCal so we get lots of sun but in the summer it gets really hot (over 100 f), can they stand that kind of heat? Thanks so much for sharing!!! Can’t wait!
Delighted for your comment! Pumpkins perform best when fruits set and ripen all together. Although you might notice continues new fruits, it is best to remove new ones once the old fruits are about to mature. This will help the plant to focus its energy on a flavored fruit production (quality instead of quantity). Pumpkins need and enjoy full sun. I live in California too and my pumpkin plants have survived 100F+ temperature. If it is over 100F, you just need to provide some shade (umbrella) and make sure they are well watered, specially if you grow them in fabric pots. I hope this helps and thank you so much for getting in touch!😊
How much celsuis is 100 f tho? Asking you cuz google gave me an impossible answer of 37 778 Celsius!😂😂😂😂😂🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
@@dewaldsteyn1306 like 38°
@@dewaldsteyn1306 it wasn't impossible, that wasnt a 30,000° that was a decimal
A very well designed garden! Please make tutorials how you make the garden bed.
Thank you very much for your comment. I will see if I can post a video on that.
Cool
Thank you very much!
Awesome video! can you plant more than one jack be little per 10 gallon grow bag?
Great question. The main thing to keep in mind with grow bags is the air pruning of the roots. Air pruning doesn't let roots to be developed up to the walls of the bags and you don't get the full capacity of it. When you grow two plants, then you need to plant them closer to the walls and not in the center, as you do with a single plant. This will lower success rates in building strong roots resulting in limited plant growth and fruit production. Technically, you can grow Jack be littles in 5 gallon containers, but with the grow bags we have to go to at least one size up (7 gallon) for a healthy plant. If you want to have two plants per bag, I 'd recommend to use a 15 gallon one. I hope this helps and thank you so much for your comment!😊
Hi. I am located in SE Michigan and just purchased these seeds. This will be the first fruiting plant I attempt to grow from seed. I was originally considering planting the seed directly into the garden bed, but I'd also like to consider starting the seeds like you have done here. If I use your method of starting in small plastic pots, do you recommend I start at the same time that I would have if I planted the seeds directly outside in the garden bed? I was going to plant them Memorial Day weekend. Beautiful video by the way!
Hi. For pumpkins, starting seeds would be same for in ground and in small pots. The reason is that you don't need to start them indoors early. And usually May. - Jun. is prefect time to start seeds. You got it right, Memorial Day or 4th of July are two holidays that is told to remember for sowing pumpkins. Happy growing and thank you so much for your comment!
Love your video! It inspired me and my 5-year-old daughter to grow pumpkins this summer. We live in Southern California by the coast and it is quite warm...noticing that our plants leaves are wilting in the heat of the day - after watering they perk back up when in the shade. Should I be watering them earlier in the day? I see a lot of notes that say "water at the roots" but what does that mean for grow bags like in this video - should we be setting the bag in a tray of water? Or just watering them long and deeply before the heat of the day sets in?
First, I am delighted that you love my video. If you are growing in grow bags, you will definitely need to water the plants daily. I am also located in So Cal and have had the same experience with the wilting leaves. This is very common on plants with large leaves like pumpkin or cucumber, so nothing is wrong with the plant. However, I strongly recommend to provide some sort of shade, like shade cloths(30% or 40%) when it gets over 90F. Also, pumpkins have very shallow roots, so sometimes you will have to water twice a day. The hot midday sun evaporates all the water on the soil surface (and also from soil on the outer edge of the grow bags) so make sure that top layer of the soil is always watered. On your second question, watering at the root means "not watering the leaves- or not showering the plant". Wet leaves are prone to fungal disease specially in warm weather. You typically never want to have your grow bag or pots sit in a tray of water. That is why pots have holes for drainage so roots don't sit in water to prevent root rot. As I said, pumpkins have shallow roots and it is better to keep the top soil moist rather than watering deeply and less frequently. I prefer to water in the mornings and if it is hot, again in the evening. But as long as the soil is kept moist, you don't need to worry too much about the time of watering. I hope this helps and thank you so much for your inspiring comment. Happy growing!
@@TowardGarden Thanks so much for this detailed reply - it made me a lot less nervous about what's going on with these little guys.
My first time seeing this mini pumpkins are they like sugar pumpkins?
Pretty much yes. They are golden flesh and deliciously sweet when baked whole or filled with stuffing. Very charming and fun to grow, give it a try.
Thanks again for visiting!
Are you using only one stamen to pollinate different stigmas of female flower or use different stamen for pollinating different female flowers.
I have done both and both ways work. Actually, in many cases I have used multiple stamen to pollinate one fruit flower to ensure successful pollination. As long as the flowers are from same variety you should be fine. Thank you very much for visiting!
Thanks😇
Nah i allow the bees to help me with that. Although its a necessary thing if there aint much bees like in some areas of the world.
Idk
Yeah I'm planning on growing these next year and I've been growing tomatoes peppers corn (failed this year) green beans and last year cantaloupe
Sounds great. Thanks for visiting.
Great video! do you know what fertilizer i can use to encourage fruiting on my pumpkin plant?
Any vegetable fertilizer with high P in NPK ratio will work, such as 5-10-10. As an easy choice, you can use any tomato fertilizer. For a quick effect, feed with water soluble to tomato fertilizers. I hope this helps and thank you very much for your comment!
I love these it's a pity that here in botswana we don't have the orange pumkin variety as they are my favourite looking pumkins🥰🥰🥰
Hope one day you can grow pumpkins in botswana too. Thank you so much for your comment!
@@TowardGarden thankyou I hope to find that variety one day🥰🌻
Have you ever tried to save the seeds for next season? My guess is since it’s a hybrid, it won’t grow true, but some sights say you can?!🤷♀️
I have read that when the tendril above a fruit is brown, the fruit is ready to pick.
Correct, seeds from hybrid varieties may not grow same fruits again. Harvesting these pumpkins are much easier with their orange color at maturity. Thank you for visiting!
I love this video and am currently trying to replicate growing these pumpkins!Please let me know where you purchased the tomato wire. I’m having trouble finding 4”x6” mesh. All I can find is 2”x3” or smaller mesh, nothing larger. Thank you!🎃🎃🎃
I got the tomato wire mesh at my local garden center, but I agree with you , I haven't seen it in major retail stores. The brand is "Western Fencing" and is distributed by BMD. Here is the link and you can contact them to see if they have it available in any store near your area www.bmdusa.com/western-fencing/ . If you cannot find it, you may use regular 2"x4" mesh (or even 2X3) with no major effect on growing. Major retailers like Home depot and Lowe's carry 2"X4" wires. I hope this helps and thank you for your comment!
I just started a container garden this year. We only did tomatoes, bell peppers, and then serranos and jalapeños. We had such a huge success with them. Plus we did parsley and basil, and have been pleased with what we have grown. Only issue we had was cilantro. But we want to do more stuff next year. We did five gallon buckets that we made into self-watering. Can these pumpkins be planted in something like that size or should it be 10 gallons?
Pumpkins have a shallow root system and require wide pots rather than deep ones. I haven't tried growing pumpkins in 5 gallon buckets but I have seen other gardeners growing squash in them, so it might work. Not sure. Thank you for visiting.
Great video! I’m now growing Jack be little pumpkins. I have a question, could I use a 5 gallon pot instead?
If you mean 5 gallon plastic pot, that should be around 14 inch wide and that may work. But 5 gallon grow bag is way too small to grow pumpkins with a healthy fruits. Thanks and good luck!
@@TowardGarden Thank you for your response
Zone 8b here and just purchased seedlings from a gardener, I hope I can harvest before Halloween. 😭
If the weather don't get crazy cold, I think you should be able to harvest them. Thank you for visiting and happy growing.
Hai, saya dari malaysia. Seronok lihat pokok labu anda. Saya tak peenah jumpa lagi labu kecil di tempat saya.. bagusnya kalau dapat biji benihnya.. 😁
Hello, thank you for watching from Malaysia👋. Sorry to hear that you are having hard time finding seeds. Any pumpkin variety that weighs about 1-2 kg would work too. hope you will be able to find some seeds. Thank you so much for the comment!
@@TowardGarden
Wc..
Is't so okey,
I'm just glad to see your gardening..
So nice and make me inspiration
Nice tutorial what are the grow bags resting on?
They are just some old wire fence. I just had them to prevent damage to the grow bags from gravel, but it is totally optional and won't make much difference if you don't use them. Thank you so much for your comment!
Do you have problems with squash bugs going after your pumpkin vines? If so, how do you treat/prevent?
Not squash bugs but I've had to deal with cucumber beetle in the past. I have learned that for pumpkins the best pest management is to monitor new plants and to prevent. I look regularly for eggs under the leaves and/or spray with neem oil mix. Add 1oz neem oil+1 tsp dish soap to one gallon of room temp. water add spray BOTH sides of the leaves. Try to spray in the evenings so you don't disturb bees for pollination. If you are doing hand pollination and don't have bees around, you may also use traps such as squash borer traps. I hope this helps.
Thank you for getting in touch!
Companion plants help prevent that..
A lot of insects hate marigolds.
How tall is the trellis overall and specifically the metal part? Thanks!
The metal mesh is 4ft tall. The wood sticks are 6ft (same as trellis height). Thank you for visiting.
Hi, do you need to start from seeds again after harvest?
Hi. yes, pumpkins are annual and you will need to start from seed again for the next harvest. Thank you for visiting!
Those are so cute!!! They'd be gorgeous as mini Jack O Lanterns. Do you know where to get the seeds?
Jack Be Little is a widely available variety and you can find seeds online from many sources, including amazon. It is well worth trying growing them. Thank you so much for your comment!
@@TowardGarden I'll definitely keep an eye out for them online, they look so lovely. Thank you!
Sorry for so many questions, but can you use a tomato cage instead of a trellis?
I haven't tried it but if your tomato cage is tall enough maybe it is doable. Not sure.
Do you think you could grow 2 of these per grow bag?
If the grow bag is big enough, then yes. I recommend to use a 15 gal bag to plant 2 of them. For smaller bags, you may still be able to grow 2, but it might effect growth and fruit production. Thank you for visiting.
When you 1st plant the seeds, do you place them directly in the sun?
You can place them in shade until the seedlings sprout. As soon as they pop out, move them outside in indirect sunlight (only 3-4 hours of direct morning sunlight). Thanks for visiting!
Where did you get the black lacey pots you used for planting the pumpkin plants? Do they have a name?
These are called fabric pots or grow bags and you can check my amazon page for a list of different size pots I use www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-3dd9a3b6/list/2RDH8JIP3GENI?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d . Thank you for visiting.
Is there any thing to do to stocked it?
If you mean how to store them, you can do it by storing in a cool place upside down with the stalk on the bottom. You can also use a piece of cardboard to put the pumpkins on. Hope this helps and thanks for visiting.
I don’t know my pumpkins has no flowers Just. keep growing without flowers it has been two months so what can I do ? Please
Probably the soil has too much nitrogen, or the fertilizer you use is high in nitrogen, which can prevent flowering. Try to feed your plant with low-nitrogen soluble fertilizer. Check the N-P-K ration on the fertilizer and select the ones that have higher numbers of P,K compare to N (e.g. 0-10-10 or 5-10-10). There are few choices I listed on my amazon page like: Fox Farm Tiger Bloom, Scotts supper bloom and Grow More 7505 Hawaiian Bud and Bloom. ( www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-3dd9a3b6/list/3OOR0YYL58Y0Z?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d ) . Some other reasons for no flowers could be hot or humid weather, and too much or too little watering. Hope this helps and thanks for the visiting!
hello did you start yours inside under a light or outside in a shady place??
Hello. I keep my seed trays in a shed like room in my backyard until the seedlings sprout. As soon as they pop out, I move them outside in indirect sunlight (or 3-4 hours of direct morning sunlight). I hope this helps and thank you for visiting.
@@TowardGardenthanks is it anything I can do for heat before putting it outside ? its beyond hot in texas😂😂
@@dev-gz3vn If it is too hot, you can protect plants with some shade cloths (I use 30% blocking cloths). And make sure they are well watered. But pumpkins live that heat. Good luck!
@@TowardGardenok one last question. What compost do I use? I already have potting mix.
Where did you get the jack be little seeds?
I got it form my local gardening center, but Jack Be Little is a available online from many sources, including amazon. Thank you for getting in touch!
What month do you recommend I plant the seeds?
Depending on your location, you want to start when soil temperature is 70°-90°F. As a rule of thumb I recommend to start end of May to mid June. Thank you for visiting!
Quick question does it have to grow in a trellis because my landlord won't let me put one outside
The trellis can be a tomato cage, which is smaller and easier to put. But if you cannot have any trellis, try bush type varieties such as Wee be Little (watch how to grow ua-cam.com/video/GGsKF6Yefig/v-deo.html ), or Casperita. Hope this helps and happy gardening!
@@TowardGarden thanks your videos inspire me a lot
Hi actually I want to ask you a question on incident which I faced minimum times. My question is that what will happen if we pollinate a single female flower by so many male flower ( maximum three) actually I tried this so my baby pumpkin got rotten.
Hope you will tell a suggestion as you are a successful Gardner. 😃😃😃😇
Have you experienced such thing ever that pumpkin not grows afer over pollinated by so many male flower.
Hi there. It is not uncommon for pumpkins to not get mature and die off. You will always have many fruit flowers, but very few fruits. I have experienced it and the main reason is poor and unsuccessful pollination. There are few things I can suggest: 1. Pollinate in early morning time frame. Female flowers only fully open and stay open for couple of hours in the mornings to attract pollinators such as bees. 2. When hand pollinating, make sure not to damage the stigmas of female flower. Try to brush it very softly. 3. Pick healthy male flower making sure they have plenty of yellow powder on stamen (you can definitely use many make flowers to pollinate one fruit flower). 4. And lastly, feed your pumpkin with a low nitrogen fertilizer (5-10-10) plus calcium to help fruit production.
I hope this helps and thank you very much for visiting. Good luck!😊
Thanks. 😇
Does the skin edible?
Usually you just eat the flesh, but if you eat the skin it won't hurt. Thanks for visiting!
How do you get a lot of soil for cheap?
By making my own soil mix, that 's why I always show in my videos the portions needed to make your own potting mix. I also clean my used potting soil from roots and add fresh compost and sometimes fertilizer to make new soil. I try to make my own compost from kitchen scrap, yard trimming and old plants/roots. You can also buy peat moss or coir, perlite and bagged compost separately from your garden center and mix them to make potting soil at a fraction cost of the bagged potting mix. I hope this helps and thank you for visiting.
@@TowardGarden Can you buy topsoil and mix it with peat moss and perlite?
Top soil usually doesn't have nutrients needed for a healthy plant and I would not recommend. You may use bagged garden soil or a better option would be bagged composted manure (steer, chicken,...). I hope this helps and thanks.
This pumpkin is edible?
Yes indeed. They taste amazing. Thanks for visiting.
@@TowardGarden thanks 😊
I like to eat them raw when they’re small and immature. Freaking delicious.
Sounds very interesting. Thank you for your comment!
Is this edible..?
Absolutely. They taste amazing when cooked. Thanks for visiting.