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Cucurbita Argyrosperma
🍃Genus: Cucurbitaceae Pumpkin spp.
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🪴Shape: petiole thick, rooting at stem nodes, leaf blade broadly ovate or ovate-orbicular, surface covered with fine downy hairs, soft to the touch. Leaf veins are clearly elevated, tendrils thick, and monoecious. The fruit is generally larger, with a ribbed and grooved appearance, with slight differences in appearance depending on the species, often with several longitudinal grooves on the surface, hard texture, and a soft and seedy core.
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Characteristics of Swan Pumpkin:
🦢 Unique shape: the long curved neck is like an elegant swan, with high ornamental value.
🎨 Variety of colors: common green, white, some varieties will turn yellow or orange after maturity.
🌱 Rapid growth: easy to grow, adaptable, suitable for patio, garden or vine cultivation.
✨ Wide range of uses: can be used for holiday decorations, garden embellishments, hand carvings, and even eaten during the young fruit stage.
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How to Grow Swan Pumpkins (Swan Gourd) 🦢🎃
🌱 1. Sowing time
✅ Ideal for spring and early summer (stable temperatures above 15°C).
✅ Optimum germination temperature is 20-30°C, low temperature may affect the germination rate.
🏡 2. Site selection and soil
✅ Prefer warm and sunny environment, suitable for planting in the yard, garden or beside the vine.
✅ Choose sandy loam soil with good drainage and rich in organic matter, with a pH value between 6.0 and 7.0 is best.
✅ You can apply rotted organic fertilizer or compost in advance to improve soil fertility.
🌿 3. Sowing and germination
✅ Direct sowing method: dig pits directly in the soil (about 2-3cm deep), put 2-3 seeds in each pit, cover the soil and water and moisturize.
✅ Germination method (to increase germination rate):
Soak the seeds in warm water (30-35°C) for 8-12 hours.
Fish them out, wrap them in a damp cloth and place them in a warm place (around 25°C) to germinate, and wait for the seeds to show before sowing.
✅ Keep the soil moist and germination usually takes 7-10 days.
✅ 4. Growth Management
✅ Light: Swan pumpkins need plenty of sunlight, not less than 6 hours a day.
✅ Watering: keep the soil moist but not waterlogged, increase watering moderately during the peak growth period.
✅ Fertilizing:
Seedling stage: apply thin fertilizer (nitrogen fertilizer mainly) to promote stem and leaf growth.
Flowering period: increase the application of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, improve the fruiting rate and fruit quality.
Fruiting period: moderate supplementation of organic fertilizer to promote pumpkin maturity.
🌿 5. Setting up a frame to attract vines (optional)
✅ Swan pumpkin vines grow vigorously, can be ground climbing vines, can also be planted on a frame to improve the ornamental.
✅ When the vine grows to 30-50cm, you can prune the side branches appropriately to reduce nutrient consumption and let the main vine bear more fruits.
✅ 6. Pollination and Fruiting
✅ Swan pumpkin is dioecious and mainly relies on insect pollination, but can also be hand pollinated to improve the fruiting rate:
In the morning, use a cotton swab or a small brush to gently apply the pollen from the male flower to the stigma of the female flower.
✅ It takes about 80-100 days from flowering to fruit ripening.
🎃 7. Harvesting and preservation
✅ Young fruits (30-40 days) can be eaten as tender melons.
✅ Mature fruits (about 90-120 days) are used for ornamental or handicraft purposes and are harvested when the skin is hard and the color is stable.
✅ After harvesting, place in a ventilated and cool place to dry, it can be kept for several months or even longer.
