Resilient Fire Pumpkin (Certified Organic)

Grown by Twin Oaks Seed Farm – 110 days – Cucurbita pepo

Developed by Edmund Frost for Common Wealth Seed Growers.

An Orange Halloween pumpkin bred to resist downy mildew – so that they grow well into October. They also have good vine borer resistance. Average size is 11 inches in diameter. For Virginia and similar climates we recommend planting in mid to late June for harvest in mid to late October. Some percentage of plants (10% in 2023) will make pumpkins with skin that is too hard to carve. This is a trait Edmund has been selecting against (though in the future he may release a separate variety with the hard shell). Shapes vary from round to somewhat oblong, and they ripen to a medium to deep orange color. 

Resilient Fire Pumpkin comes from a cross between Magic Lantern, an orange carving pumpkin resistant to powdery mildew (which may also confer some downy mildew resistance); and an orange squash from Tamaulipas, Mexico called Tutume. Edmund got Tutume (PI 532389) and about a dozen other tropical Cucurbita pepo seedstocks from the USDA germplasm bank for a late-planted downy mildew trial in 2018. Tutume was the only squash that handled the downy mildew and produced well in the trial. We’d love your feedback on this ongoing project! 204 seeds/oz.

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