🎃🌱 Giant Atlantic Pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima) – 20 Seeds

Grow colossal pumpkins with the legendary Giant Atlantic Pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima), renowned for producing some of the largest pumpkins in the world! Whether you’re entering a giant pumpkin contest or simply want to impress your neighbors, this variety offers rapid growth, vibrant orange color, and massive fruit size when given space and care.

🌱 Plant Information:

• Latin Name: Cucurbita maxima

• Common Name: Giant Atlantic Pumpkin

• Plant Type: Warm-season annual

• Growth Habit: Vigorous vines (up to 25 ft / 7.6 m long)

• Fruit Size: Commonly 200–400+ lbs; with care, up to 1,000 lbs+

• Skin Color: Bright orange

• Flesh: Thick, yellow-orange, edible

🎃 Uses & Benefits:

• Ideal for giant pumpkin competitions and fall displays

• Impressive centerpiece for Halloween and harvest festivals

• Edible flesh can be used for pies, soups, and roasting

• Great fun for schools, community gardens, or family growing projects

• Educational and rewarding for kids and adults alike

🌞 Environmental Preferences:

• Requires full sun and warm, fertile, well-drained soil

• Needs ample space, nutrients, and consistent watering

• Benefits from mulching and wind protection for vines

• Best suited to regions with long, hot growing seasons