🎃 Pumpkin

Cultivation, Important Points

  • Botanical Name: Cucurbita moschaia
  • Family: Cucurbitaceae
  • Origin: Mexico
  • Amphidiploid (2n = 40) in nature
  • Orissa - 85% Area and 90% production.
  • Cucurbita ficifolia: Fig leaf Gourd or Malabar Gourd.
  • Yerusseri: Prepared from immature fruits. (Famous in Kerala)
  • Channel and hill’ system of cultivation is most useful for higher yield.
  • Chief pollinator - Honey bees.
  • Male and Female parent can be grown in a 1 : 3 ratio.
  • Flowers of Pumpkin are more nutritive than fruits.
  • Pumpkin reaches maturity 75-180 days after sowing.

Varieties

  • Arka Chandan: Pleasant Aroma
  • Pusa Viswas
  • Pusa Vikas
  • Arka Surya Mukhi: Resistant to fruit fly
  • Ambili
  • Botanical Name: Cucurbita moschaia
  • Family: Cucurbitaceae
  • Origin: Mexico
  • Amphidiploid (2n = 40) in nature
  • Orissa - 85% Area and 90% production.
  • Cucurbita ficifolia: Fig leaf Gourd or Malabar Gourd.
  • Yerusseri: Prepared from immature fruits. (Famous in Kerala)
  • Channel and hill’ system of cultivation is most useful for higher yield.
  • Chief pollinator - Honey bees.
  • Male and Female parent can be grown in a 1 : 3 ratio.
  • Flowers of Pumpkin are more nutritive than fruits.
  • Pumpkin reaches maturity 75-180 days after sowing.

Varieties

  • Arka Chandan: Pleasant Aroma
  • Pusa Viswas
  • Pusa Vikas
  • Arka Surya Mukhi: Resistant to fruit fly
  • Ambili

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