Tags: Certified Organic Open Pollinated
Growing Practices: No Pesticides No Herbicides No Fungicides No Synthetic Fertilizers
Latin Name: Cucurbita moschata
Days to Maturity: 120
Description:
Chinese Tropical Pumpkin has a rich creamy texture, high dry matter and brix (sugar) readings, bright orange interior and a lot of flavor (pumpkiny and nutty). At harvest, fruit color is a mix of pink, green and blue, with a white bloom (like the white outer layer on some blueberries). During storage they eventually ripen to a deep tan color. The pumpkins have moderate to deep ribs and average 4 pounds. Chinese Tropical Pumpkin has good downy mildew resistance and was one of the top performers (in terms of yield, disease resistance and flavor) in Twin Oaks’ 2014 and 2022 trials. They keep pretty well in appropriate storage conditions.
This seedstock comes from Hawaii grower Glen Teves. It is likely of Taiwanese origin, although probably grown and adapted in Hawaii for a number of years - versions of this pumpkin are somewhat common in Hawaii.
Shapes range from flattened to round to stout barrel-shaped. We think we've been largely successful at removing the necked offtypes that used to be in the population. Seeds grown in a pollination isolation cage. We’ll have larger sizes next year. 10 seeds/gram. Grown by Twin Oaks Seed Farm.
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I am very interested growing in the Chinese tropical pumpkin. Does the Chinese tropical pumpkin have edible skin or is the rind harder and inedible?
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1/8 Ounce = 5 seeds and 1/2 Ounce = 100 seeds. The math doesn't work here. Please clarify.
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Thanks for catching the mistake . It should say 25 seeds for 1/8 ounce (and its corrected now).
Posted by Common Wealth Seed Growers Cooperative on 12/22/2019
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how about productivity thinking of buying for markeI will buy some for sure but if it's highly productive by considerably moret
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Its pretty productive especially considering its eating quality. More productive than Thai Kang Kob.
Posted by Common Wealth Seed Growers Cooperative on 04/25/2019
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I've been experimenting making pumpkin jam. CTP beats all the other varieties I've tried hands down. The flavor is fantastic and only a scant amount of sugar is needed. Spread sour dough toast with cream cheese and CTP jam...yummy.
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Nice! What else do you put in it? - Edmund
Posted by Common Wealth Seed Growers Cooperative on 03/18/2019
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There's some great recipes on-line. All of them call for lemon juice. One of them uses crushed pineapple and orange jello which is delicious and such a pretty color. A Lebanese recipe uses orange blossom water. That's good and different. The Italians flavor it with Amaretto. I've also tried dark, sweet rum and that's good. Today's batch will be with Grand Marnier. Then I'll try Applejack. Add the alcohol in the last few minutes of cooking. Of course there's always vanilla. Keep the jars in the frig or freezer.
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I grew this in a Lake Luzerne in Upstate NY. The nights can be cool and lots of condensation on the leaves and have had real problems with Powdery and Downy Mildew on all of my vines. I had been trying different varieties each year and really glad I read the details for CTP. I had now mildew for the first time in a long time. I got about a dozen pumpkins off 4 plants. They were probably the best tasting squash I have ever grown. That was in 3 and a half months from seed to fruit. The smaller fruit that wasnt quite turning pinkish as all didnt hold up to storage, but the ones that were mature when picked held up much better for a month before eating them. No question here, just wanted to comment.
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Thank you. I'm in the mountains of WNC where we have delightfully cool summers. Today is Day 120 for my Chinese Tropical and they are still mottled dark green/light green. And the vines are starting up all over again and setting more fruit. I love this plant!
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Help! Can you tell me what seed I have? Ordered the Chinese Tropical, but at 110 days, they look NOTHING like your photo. The foliage is absolutely gorgeous variegated philodendron-like leaves, fruit is moschata, roundish, dark green/light green that is turning to yellow variegated,, 2-3 lbs,, slightly ribbed, straight 10-inch stems. Can't wait to taste!
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The picture we have is from around Thanksgiving time. At harvest, fruits should be pink and greenish blue, with a powdery finish like that found on many blueberries and apples. Where are you located? Days to maturity are a relative and inexact measure because of how much conditions vary from place to place and year to year. Hopefully frost is still a ways off for you and the the fruits will have time to mature fully. Edmund for CWSG
Posted by Common Wealth Seed Growers Cooperative on 09/05/2018
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