Pumpkin (kaddu) Seeds Hybrid
Original price was: ₹85.00.₹39.00Current price is: ₹39.00.
Product Information:
- Number of Pumpkin seeds (kaddu ke beej): 15 Seeds
- Growing season: Throughout the year
- Where to grow: Balcony or terrace garden
- Sowing method: Direct or Indirect
- Germination temperature: 18 to 30°C
- Germination Time: 6 to 10 days from sowing
- Harvesting: 100 to 120 days
- Plant vigor: strong plant
- Fruit Average weight: 4 to 6 kg
Product Description
Kaddu is round, beautiful with slightly rubbed skin, delicious, and have too many health benefits; looking cute, and attractive and they are extremely tasty. You can easily grow pumpkins in the container because it does not need much space to grow and place them on your balcony, terrace, or garden.Pumpkins are an annual herbaceous plant with a pentagonal stem and no thorns. Cordiform pentagonal leaves with white spots inside the nerves. The corolla is composed of numerous lobes, a lanceolate shape, and a yellow color. Female flowers have lobed sepals. When fully ripe, the pepo fruit, round or ellipsoidal, even or bulky, is coated in a white powder. The skin is crimson, yellowish, orange and features wriggling, reticular, wavy, or striped mottling. The peduncle, which is pentagonal, connects the fruit to the stem and is a well-developed part of the stem’s base. Since it is indigenous to warm countries, it enjoys warm temperatures and is easily adapted.
Uses of Pumpkin
- Prevents Diabetes Complications
- Aids in the treatment of an Overactive Bladder
- Enhances eye health
- Addresses Fertility Issues
Pumpkin Plant Care Tips
- Sunlight: Pumpkin plant needs full sunlight for good growth.
- Water: Pumpkin needs lots of water for quick growth. Give regular and deep water during summer days; keep moisture in the soil and try to keep dry leaves and fruits. Give water 2-3 days once in winter or rainy days.
- Soil: Use well-drained, fertile, loose soil high in organic matter with 5.8 to 6.8 pH.
- Temperature: Pumpkin plants are growing quickly in temperatures between 21-32 degree Celsius.
- Fertilizer: For good growth of pumpkin, give a regular treatment of compost or manure with water.
- Common pests: Squash bugs, Cucumber beetles, Aphids, Squash vine borer, Powdery mildew, and Anthracnose are commonly found in pumpkin plants. Use organic pesticide ‘neem oil’ it protects the plant from harmful pests.
- Support: We all know pumpkin is a vine plant and it needs support for vertically growing. Provide a support structure for pumpkin plants like a trellis, poles, pipe, bamboo, rope, or creeper net.