Years ago, in WA, I grew heirloom Amish Pie (squash) pumpkin. It has very long vines, which eventually do get powdery mildew, but have 2 fruits or 3 per vine. Fruits were enormous, not possible to put your arms around some of them! They were quite heavy, creamy peach outside hard shell, like a huge halloween pumpkin in size but with a slight acorn squash point. Inside was VERY thick orange creamy flesh, easy to smooth make pies with just a blender. Cavity is very tiny, plenty of big seeds in it. One fruit would make multiple pies, I mean the 1950s tins size not the tiny ones of today. I would love to see this variety improved upon and used as a parent to make more small cavity, creamy fleshed, huge interesting fruits, but with shorter vines (it had to be 25 feet or longer) with more disease resistance.
We got an interesting unknown hybrid this year from our compost pile, that we let grow out. Our best guess is that it was a pumpkin delicata cross, since the fruit was about the shape and size of a traditional pie pumpkin, but the most mature ones had speckled orange yellow skin on a green background, and green ribbing, like a delicata. There was also a less mature squash that was all creamy white with green ribbing. It actually kinda looked like a Carnival Squash, but was about the size of the mellow yellow pumpkins shown.
Do you look at some of the eastern european pumpkins and squash? I went to Bulgaria a few years ago and was amazed but the standard sizes they have, literally caveman club shaped and very heavyweight?
The seeds from blue doll pumpkin… can you just plant them and get blue doll pumpkins? Or do you have cross pollinate them to get the blue doll variety?
Look at some of the smaller gourd sized pumpkins. If you look in your seed catalog often they will list varieties that are "bush" or "semi-bush" but know that most of these still have some tendency to vine some so overall it can be hard to contain them in a limited area. You can "comb" or move vines together to keep them in a space or even clip the ends that are growing outside where you want them. Just know that even the bush types can have a mind of there own and will spread some.
Years ago, in WA, I grew heirloom Amish Pie (squash) pumpkin. It has very long vines, which eventually do get powdery mildew, but have 2 fruits or 3 per vine. Fruits were enormous, not possible to put your arms around some of them! They were quite heavy, creamy peach outside hard shell, like a huge halloween pumpkin in size but with a slight acorn squash point. Inside was VERY thick orange creamy flesh, easy to smooth make pies with just a blender. Cavity is very tiny, plenty of big seeds in it. One fruit would make multiple pies, I mean the 1950s tins size not the tiny ones of today.
I would love to see this variety improved upon and used as a parent to make more small cavity, creamy fleshed, huge interesting fruits, but with shorter vines (it had to be 25 feet or longer) with more disease resistance.
I love eating all the sweet fresh pumkins I can get my hands on .Thanks for growing them.
Pumpkins can be so varied! Some really cool varieties!
Thank you for showing these!
We got an interesting unknown hybrid this year from our compost pile, that we let grow out. Our best guess is that it was a pumpkin delicata cross, since the fruit was about the shape and size of a traditional pie pumpkin, but the most mature ones had speckled orange yellow skin on a green background, and green ribbing, like a delicata. There was also a less mature squash that was all creamy white with green ribbing. It actually kinda looked like a Carnival Squash, but was about the size of the mellow yellow pumpkins shown.
Do you look at some of the eastern european pumpkins and squash? I went to Bulgaria a few years ago and was amazed but the standard sizes they have, literally caveman club shaped and very heavyweight?
Thank you for sharing! Can you please tell me if fairytale pumpkin is hybrid or heirloom. Thank you in advance.
The seeds from blue doll pumpkin… can you just plant them and get blue doll pumpkins? Or do you have cross pollinate them to get the blue doll variety?
Thanks for sharing. I love pumpkins. This was fun. I like melo yellow, moonshine, one too many and fright.
This is a great video on the variety of pumpkins. Are all of these for eating? Would be great to which are sweeter.
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I just bought at the grocery store the Blue Doll, but never seen (yet) Mellow Yellow. I can see this becoming a hit for Halloween.
Also fools gold and Fright should do well, that latter looks scary, no cutting needed. Wonder how it would work if used for pies though?
Neither of those would be my first choice for pies. I would look at something like Autumn Buckskin or Fairytale to use for pies.
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Anything with nice foliage on a compact bush for the front yard?
Look at some of the smaller gourd sized pumpkins. If you look in your seed catalog often they will list varieties that are "bush" or "semi-bush" but know that most of these still have some tendency to vine some so overall it can be hard to contain them in a limited area. You can "comb" or move vines together to keep them in a space or even clip the ends that are growing outside where you want them. Just know that even the bush types can have a mind of there own and will spread some.
This was a very cool video
Don foget you can eat those leaves to make a salad too ??
General rule is usually more leaves = better flavor fruit.
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