What kinds of pumpkins do you have? Characteristics of Chinese Pumpkin Variety Group Gillian and Ah Cheng

Pumpkin cultivation and management skills: pumpkins are positive vegetables, such as insufficient sunshine, continuous rain, easy to grow and not easy to bear fruit. Pumpkin is more deep ploughing, drought tolerance is quite strong, such as too much water in the soil or poor drainage, it is easy to cause overgrowth and fruit drop, so we should choose a good place for drainage. Pumpkin is suitable for growing in sandy loam or loam, and the soil PH value is between 5.0 and 7.5.

Chinese pumpkin variety group

Gillian: the first generation of mating. The fruit has strong growth, oval fruit, smooth fruit surface, neat fruit, usually more than 3.5 kilograms, yellow flesh color, sticky flesh, sweet flavor and easy result. It takes about 100-120 days from sowing to harvest and about 50 days from flowering to harvest. The high yield of this variety is gradually favored by the producers.

A Cheng: small fruit papaya type pumpkin, the first generation of mating species, the fruit is earlier and more productive, the fruit is long oval (papaya type), the fruit shape is neat, the fruit weight is about 1.4 ~ 1.7 kg, the flesh is clear and yellow, and the flesh is better than papaya pumpkin. It takes about 100 to 110 days from sowing to harvest and 45 days from flowering to harvest.

Toyo pumpkin (Taiwan Gillian): sweet and delicious, with a sticky taste.

American pumpkin (winter pumpkin): the flesh is crisp and tender, suitable for cold salad, but also can be placed for viewing.

Dongsheng pumpkin: the flesh is soft and sweet, suitable for serving pumpkin soup or pumpkin paste.

Nantou pumpkin: Nantou unique variety, sweet taste, soft taste.

Chestnut pumpkin: it tastes as soft as chestnuts, suitable for cooking and frying.

Walnut pumpkin: smooth and smooth taste, and milk flavor, also known as "milk pumpkin".

Mainland pumpkin: soft taste, high sweetness, suitable for making pumpkin soup.