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'Big Max' Pumpkins
 
Sub-Category: Giant
Ornamental
 
Sub-Category 2:
Description: Giant, ornamental and culinary. Vines bear pinkish-orange, 50- to 200-pound fruit. Actually a squash (C. maxima).
Days To Maturity: 120
Seed Sources: Gurneys Seed & Nursery Co. - updated in 2019
Henry Field's Seed and Nursery Co. - updated in 2013
BBBseed - updated in 2011

 
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Taste: (1.5 Stars)Taste
Yield: (5.0 Stars)Yield
Ease/Reliability: (4.5 Stars)Ease/Reliability
 
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Reviewed on 12/27/2010 by Lilikoi - A novice gardener

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San Diego, California, United States
Frost Free Season: Fewer than 103 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

We grew 3 plants and got 6 pumpkins over 100 pounds, and 4 over 50 pounds. While that may seem great they were hard to turn and flattened out, and the plants were HUGE. You have to have room. We grew them in full sun. We had some mildew later in the season. We didn't feed them at all but grew them in a place that had not been used for vegetables before. They need a lot of water for us southwest gardeners who are under water restrictions. But they are a lot of fun, once, and grow well here. San Diego, hot, dry, inland
 

Reviewed on 11/20/2006 by Nancy Strasser - An experienced gardener

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Pulaski, Virginia, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

Excellent decorative pumpkin. Good eating (though the puree is VERY moist, and must be drained before baking into a pie). Good production: I got 1-2 top-sized pumpkins from each plant. Color starts out yellow, but ripens to a bright halloween orange. Not as badly bothered by Squash Vine Borers as other pumpkin varieties in the same garden. I will definitely plant this variety again!
 




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