Hm, well, perhaps then my pumpkins can follow your gourds' examples and go about creating lots of wee pumpkins! Or at least as many pumpkins as there are female flowers. There're still precious few. Hopefully more will grow, especially if I keep them hydrated. The heat here has gotten brutal, and the leaves definitely show it in the middle of the day. I have to fight the urge to go outside and douse them with water.

From what I've read, farmers with pumpkin crops hire bee hives to do their pollinating. Since I only have a few plants, maybe there are enough pollinators around such that they'll get the few females there are and get them growing. I think I'll still try and pollinate them myself, since at least then I'll know they got hit with pollen, but I'm gonna try not to panic if I miss the females opening. ^_^;