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'Tetsukabuto' Squash - Winter |
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Misc.
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Hybrid. Nearly round, dark-green, 5- to 6-pound, fruit with deep-yellow, nutty flesh and small blossom-end scar. Cross between C. Maxima and C. moschata. Also known as 'Japanese Pumpkin'.
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91
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| Rating Summary |
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Overall: (4.5 Stars)
Taste: (4.5 Stars)
Yield: (4.2 Stars)
Ease/Reliability: (4.2 Stars) |
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Number of Reviews: 4
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 06/29/2014 by
G.W. Greenleaf
- A novice gardener
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Westchester, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| A champion producer that required little or no care to grow. The vines were everywhere. Pumpkins were about 3.5lbs at the smallest. Good lightly sweet taste, like a milder sweet potato. Don't try growing these unless you have the space for the vines. |
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Reviewed on 06/29/2014 by
G.W. Greenleaf
- A novice gardener
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Westchester, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| In the northeast, immigrants from Latin America call this variety of pumpkin 'Kabocha.' Popular in Jamaican and Haitian food markets also. |
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Reviewed on 10/27/2012 by
Minnesota Mike
- An experienced gardener
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Minnesota, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Vines really travel! Nice production (2 - 3 fruit per plant) of 3 - 6 lb fruits. Outstanding flavor like an excellent butternut, but a drier texture like a hubbard. I grew various other moschatas around them thinking since this is a sterile moschata/maxima cross it would help pollinate the Tetsukabutos. I guess it worked. Ratio was about 3 - 4 hills Tets. to 1 pollinator. These didn\'t take all the growing season to ripen even up here, so I think they would do well in shorter growing areas. Although it seems I\'m getting more time above 50 degrees the last number of years. |
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Reviewed on 03/28/2008 by
Zone3isaBummer
- An experienced gardener
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St. Louis, Minnesota, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| I have never tasted a better squash. The yields were just okay. I planted mine in a relatives commercial, organic squash patch to assure pollination. It has to have another variety nearby. It was still just not a heavy setter. |
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