Resilient Fire Pumpkin (Certified Organic)

Grown by Twin Oaks Seed Farm (VA) – 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. Sizes range from 8 to 13 inches in diameter. Shapes vary from round to somewhat oblong, and they ripen to a medium to deep orange color. For Virginia and similar climates we recommend planting in mid-to-late June for harvest in mid-to-late October.

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 Mexico called Tutume (we used a strain from Tamaulipas, Mexico – PI 532389 in the USDA seed bank). Edmund trialed Tutume and about a dozen other tropical Cucurbita pepo seedstocks from the USDA germplasm bank in 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 made the cross in 2019 and have been actively selecting since then. 204 seeds/oz.

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