by David The Good
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Last year we grew out our mix of Seminole pumpkin and Grenada black pumpkins.
One of the pumpkins in the batch weighed in at 32lbs.
This morning I cut it open to save seeds.
Now we need to plant some! It might be late for this year, but we’ll stick some anyway and see what happens.
If we could consistently get a giant C. moschata pumpkin that would take the heat and humidity it would be great!
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6 responses to “The 32lb Moschata”
I am trying the Old Tennessee Vining Pumpkin from SSEE for the first time this year. They have been out of stock for many years. That might be a variety you try!
https://www.southernexposure.com/products/old-fashioned-tennessee-vining-pumpkin/
That looks similar to some of our old giant Seminole pumpkin line. Cool find.
Wow, I don’t know what to say, that is just so cool. 100% those are going to be some precious seeds, don’t let the baby find them in the fridge and eat them or anything! XD You are doing Real Science! Meanwhile the lab coats are getting paid millions to splice human genes with plants genes, what a backwards world is the world of money.
Seriously.
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