Matures in: 105 days

Description:
This All American Award Winner produces a nicely scaled-down version of a classic jack-o’-lantern. Fruits are produced on normal pumpkin vines and weigh about 1½ pounds. Flesh is well-colored orange and fine-grained, excellent for pies. Seeds are semi-hulless. Tolerant to fusarium and gummy stem blight.

SOWING:
Plant seed outdoors in late spring when ground is warm or start seed indoors 5 to 7 weeks earlier. Make a group of 3 to 5 seeds placed in a ring about 2 inches across; cover with 1/2 inch of fine soil, well pressed down. Each ring of seeds is called a "hill" and hills should be spaced 5 to 10 feet apart each way.

THINNING:
When plants are 3 to 6 inches tall (after second set of leaves appear), thin to the 3 strongest plants in each hill.

GERMINATION:
Germinates in 7 to 14 days depending on soil temperature and weather conditions.

REMARKS:
May also be planted in rows 6 to 10 feet apart, spacing plants 2 to 3 feet apart in the row. May also be planted among corn. Cut pumpkins from vines with pruning shears, leaving 3 inches of stem.