Champion geneticsPumpkin
Pumpkin 1707.48 Bernard 2025
French champion 2025: 774.5 kg.
Parent fruit: 774.5 kg · 1,707.48 lb
From €30 per seedWhy this price?
Julien Bernard’s 774.5 kg pumpkin won the 2025 French championship. Julien also holds the French record for giant squash.
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Pedigree
- Grower
- Julien Bernard
- Year
- 2025
- Parent fruit
- 774.5 kg · 1,707.48 lb
Growing requirements
What this crop asks of you, rated by Nicolas across his five decisive criteria.
- Irrigation
- Climate resilience
- Disease susceptibility
- Managing the giant fruit
- Nutrition & soil
His tips for this crop
- Enriched soil (300–600 L of compost).
- Slow, deep irrigation.
- Shade the fruit from 20 kg onwards.
- Strict pruning.
- Check the fruit daily.
Rated per species: it applies to every line we offer in this category. A word you don’t know? See the glossary →
At a glance
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Potential
- Up to 1,000 kg
- Vegetative phase
- 45–60 days
- Fruit growth
- 70–130 days
- Seeds / pack
- 1 seed
Genetic potential: up to 1,000 kg. In practice, a beginner usually grows 50 to 100 kg, an experienced grower 800 to 1,000 kg.
