Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbita maxima
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Its thick walls provide an exceptional flavor and texture, making it perfect for roasting and baking. These organic big-pumpkin seeds will soon provide you with pumpkins that can reach 6 feet in diameter and weigh 100 pounds or more!
Grow a giant pumpkin with these organic, non-GMO seeds. They make excellent prize-sized pumpkins.
Sku: 1407
Common Name: Pumpkin
Botanical Name: Cucurbita maxima
Full Sun|Partial Shade
7 - 10 Days
120 Days
12 - 60"
Average (1 - 2 in / week)
Characteristics: Attracts Bees
Color: Orange
Fill Weight (grams): 2.5
Approximate Seed Count: 4 - 10
Flavor: Mild and semi-sweet
Preparation Ideas: Thick, fine-grained flesh is good quality for cooking; stores well
Plant Type: Vegetable
Plant Lifecycle: Annual
Landscape Use: Edible Garden
Growing Season(s): Spring|Summer|Fall
Harvest/Bloom Season(s): Summer|Fall
Package Dimensions: 3.25 x 4.5"
Sow a few seeds evenly spaced in hills, 8 inches high and 12 inches across. Young vines should have a fence, trellis, or heavy cord on which to climb. When young vines are about 8 inches, thin to 3 plants per hill. Does not transplant well.
Planting Depth: 1 - 1.5"
Seed Spacing: Plant your Organic Big Max Pumpkin seeds roughly 8' apart in rows, keeping rows approximately 8' apart.
Nutrient Care Instructions: Apply SUPERthrive once per week. Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.
For prize size pumpkins, after each plant has set 3 or 4 fruits, save the largest and carefully prune others then and for the rest of the season.
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