11 Pumpkin And Squash Varieties

This month’s variety specs feature focuses on pumpkin and squash varieties. Features highlighted include great disease resistance packages, excellent yield potential, and more.

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Be sure to stay tuned for next month’s feature where we’ll highlight peppers.

Cinderella’s Carriage

Pumpkin Cindrella's Carriage F1

  • Breeder: Seeds By Design
  • Fresh market/processing: Fresh
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Powdery mildew
  • Days to maturity: 100
  • Weight: 20-plus pounds
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Southeast, Great Lakes, Southwest
  • Other attributes: Pink-red colored fruit shaped like a carriage. Large trailing vine sets up to five to seven fruit per plant. Well suited for fall decorations and baking. Flesh is yellow, sweet and has a nutty flavor

SeedsByDesign.com

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Cinnamon Girl

3996-CinnamonGirl

  • Breeder: Johnny’s Selected Seeds
  • Fresh market/processing: Fresh
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Powdery mildew
  • Weight: 3 to 6 pounds
  • Days to maturity: 85
  • Yield potential: High
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Widely adaptable. Bred in the North, but performed very well in North Carolina trials
  • Other attributes: Strong handle, very uniform shape, and beautiful color. Makes an excellent pie pumpkin or ornamental

JohnnysSelectedSeeds.com


Solid gold

Solid-Gold

  • Breeder: Rupp Seeds
  • Fresh market/processing: Fresh
  • Weight: 25 pounds
  • Days to maturity: 100 days
  • Yield potential: High yield of very uniform fruit
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Midwest and Northeast U.S.
  • Other attributes: Excellent dark-orange color and strong handles

RuppSeeds.com


Sunlight

Sunlight 3

  • Breeder: Hybrid Seeds
  • Distributor: Siegers Seed Co.
  • Fresh market/processing: Fresh
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Intermediate resistance to powdery mildew
  • Days to maturity: 100
  • Other attributes: A bright yellow pie pumpkin that will catch customers’ eyes. High yields of uniform fruit with great handles

Siegers.com


Toad

Pumpkin_ToadXPU9015

  • Breeder: Sakata Seed America
  • Fresh market/processing: Fresh
  • Weight: 1.5 to 2.5 pounds
  • Days to maturity: 85
  • Yield potential: High
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Ornamental pumpkin growing regions. The amount of warts can be affected by environmental stress: more stress, less warts
  • Other attributes: Perfect for holiday decorating, bright orange color, and warts make it unique

SakataVegetables.com


Butterkin

butterkin (20)300

  • Breeder: Hybrid Seed
  • Distributor: Seedway
  • Fresh market/processing: Fresh
  • Weight: Up to 4 pounds
  • Days to maturity: 105 days
  • Yield potential: High
  • Region(s) best suited for production: North, Northeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic
  • Other attributes: Butterkin squash provides the perfect blend of sweet and buttery flavors. A specialty butternut, Butterkin has a very dark interior and a smooth texture

Seedway.com


Cosmos

Cosmos (7002Y)

  • Breeder: Abbott & Cobb
  • Fresh market/processing: Fresh
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Intermediate resistance to papaya ringspot virus, watermelon mosaic virus, zucchini yellow mosaic virus
  • Days to maturity: 52
  • Yield potential: Excellent
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Southeast U.S.
  • Other attributes: Smooth fruit with medium bulb, perfect for shipping. Vigorous plant, good disease tolerance for most viruses

AbbottCobb.com


Hokkori 133 F1

Hybrid Squash Hokkori 133

  • Breeder: American Takii
  • Fresh market/processing: Both
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Not susceptible to common diseases
  • Days to maturity: 45 to 50 days after flowering
  • Yield potential: Excellent
  • Region(s) best suited for production: U.S., Mexico, Canada. Adaptable to various growing conditions
  • Other attributes: Vigorous and high-yielding, producing uniform, sweet fruit. Weight is around 4 pounds

Takii.com


Esteem F1

SquashEsteem

  • Breeder: HM.CLAUSE
  • Distributor: Harris Seeds
  • Fresh market/processing: Fresh
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Intermediate resistance to powdery mildew, zucchini yellow mosaic virus, watermelon mosaic virus, and papaya ringspot virus
  • Days to maturity: 51
  • Yield potential: Excellent
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Northeast, Southeast, and Midwest
  • Other attributes: Strong vigor and a healthy plant. Straight, cylindrical, dark-green fruit, open plant habit

HarrisMoran.com


Payload

Payload

  • Breeder: Syngenta
  • Fresh market/processing: Fresh
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Intermediate resistance to cucumber mosaic virus, watermelon mosaic virus, zucchini yellow mosaic virus, and powdery mildew caused by Podosphaeria xanthii
  • Days to maturity: 43
  • Yield potential: High
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Ideal for Eastern U.S. growers
  • Other attributes: Upright, open plant facilitates ease of harvest and produces glossy zucchini with cylindrical, uniform shape

Syngenta-US.com/Seeds/Vegetables/


Reward

Reward (HMX )7729

  • Breeder: HM.CLAUSE
  • Distributor: Rispens Seeds, Inc.
  • Fresh market/processing: Fresh
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Intermediate resistance to powdery mildew, zucchini yellow mosaic virus, watermelon mosaic virus, and cucumber mosaic virus
  • Days to maturity: Approximately 48
  • Yield potential: Very good
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Widely adaptable
  • Other attributes: Open plant allows for easier picking, small end scar, fruit are on average 8 inches long

RispensSeeds.com

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