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crown pumpkin Crown Pumpkin planting

grown by shiny in North West bed · Wellington, NZ

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YJYR

Planted 2026-10-10

First harvest expected 2027-01-21

Finish expected 2027-03-10

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Harvest months

Spring
September
October
November
Summer
December
January
February, usually harvesting
Autumn
March, usually harvesting
April, usually harvesting
May
Winter
June
July
August

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 1 month ago 2026-10-10

Progress

23% day 35 of 151

Quantity

6 seeds

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Short code

YJYR for plant markers and labels

Grown from

Seed

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for crown pumpkin so farFrom Oct 10 to Nov 09, 0 of 31 days had a high inside the best range of 20–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 31 days. The weather was too cold on 12 days (lows below 9°C).
Expected to be too cold for crown pumpkinGoing by last year's weather, 4 of the 121 days from Nov 10 to Mar 10 should have a high inside the best range of 20–30°C. The highs could be below the best range on 117 days. It could be too cold on 10 days (lows below 9°C).
Latest, Nov 09: 14.6°C / 11.4°C2 °C frost lineGrows at 9–38°Grows best 20–30°
Daily rainfall
Latest, Nov 09: 0.9 mm

The dotted lines and bars are expected weather, last year's data for the same days moved forward a year. They are not observed.

Rain
59 mm
Hottest day
18.3°C
Coldest night
6.1°C
Soil temperature
14.1°C
Days in its best range
0 of 31
Days
31

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

Photos

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by shiny

Frost danger has passed for this crown pumpkin planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 44 days ago. The crown pumpkin planting went outdoors on 26 Oct, 58 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This crown pumpkin planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Somewhere safe from frost
  • Planting so far
  • Planting still to come
Usual last frost
29 Aug
has come as late as 1 Oct
Next frost danger starts
23 Jun
as early as 4 Jun, 105 days after this crown pumpkin planting finishes
Frost-free season
295 days
in a typical year

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

Harvests

No harvests recorded yet.

Seeds saved

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Jobs

Cure the pumpkins in the sun

in 4 months

Cut pumpkins with a long stalk

in 4 months

Check leaves for powdery mildew

in 21 days

Lift fruit onto a tile or board

in 2 months

Pinch out the vine tips

in about 1 month

Hand pollinate the female flowers

in 7 days

Finished

Mulch around the plants

14 days ago

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Crop

Photo of crown pumpkin

Crown Pumpkin

Cucurbita pepo

a variety of Pumpkin

  • 6 plantings
  • 8 harvests
  • An annual, living about 151 days
  • First harvest about 103 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 130 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other crown pumpkin plantings at the same latitude.