Champion geneticsPumpkin
Pumpkin 2045.9 Daho 2022
French champion 2022 and Howard Dill Award: 928 kg.
From €42Why this price?
Grown by Mehdi Daho in 2022, this 928 kg pumpkin won the French championship and the Howard Dill Award, which honours the most beautiful pumpkin of the weigh-off: power and shape. It is also the parent of 771.6 Akatsuka 2023, Nicolas’ orange line.
Pedigree
- Grower
- Mehdi Daho
- Year
- 2022
- Parent fruit
- 928 kg · 2,045.9 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.
