Below are the days to maturity for this pumpkin in my garden this year. I possibly could have harvested the pumpkins a lot earlier (perhaps Christmas time) or a bit later, I don't really know how to tell when pumpkins are ripe. I don't usually pay them much attention and normally just wait for the plant to die back somewhat and then harvest.
This year I picked an arbitrary day to harvest when the pumpkins had each set a large pumpkin that was no longer growing or changing colour and started to set a second round of fruit. The pumpkins weighed roughly 8 kg or 9 kg each.
Being in Australia the dates are written in the format of Day/Month/Year.
Kaempw Melon Rilon Pumpkin days to maturity (most likely Cucurbita maxima)
Planted 16/10/2016 Day 0
Germinated 26/10/2016 Day 10
Started flowering 01/12/2016 Day 46
Harvest 05/03/2017 Day 180 (possibly Day 70 if picked at Christmas)
For a full list of vegetable days to maturity please click here.
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Thanks. That's very interesting about the plant setting another round of fruit.
ReplyDeleteThey have made three or four rounds of fruit so far, each smaller than the last. I think this reduction in fruit size may be because I left the older fruit on the vine.
ReplyDeleteThe vine I picked the first pumpkin from grew the second fruit the same size as the first, and the next one was a bit smaller.