Topic: Green from orange.

[legendaryone]

I bought some orange pumpkins last year to make wine and i saved a few pips to sow this year. This afternoon i was checking my pumpkins and one of them is now sporting a green pumpkin, i thought it would have been orange after the parent is this normal ?

[Tulipa]

Pumpkins are very promiscuous and will be fertilised by any other pumpkin so that seeds do not always come out the same as the parent - can be very interesting...  Good luck, you never know it might be delicious.

[Squashface]

Most of the hardstem pumpkins like Connecticut field,Howden Biggie, sugar pumpkins etc start out green and turn orange when ripe.

[legendaryone]

Most of the hardstem pumpkins like Connecticut field,Howden Biggie, sugar pumpkins etc start out green and turn orange when ripe.

Thanks for that, it is also long like a marrow now  ???