Common varieties of pumpkin

The first type: honey pumpkin

It is a hybrid variety that matures early. The pumpkins it grows have a larger base and are longer overall, similar in shape to papayas. It weighs about 4 pounds and has light-colored spots on the surface. It takes about 95 days from germination to ripening, and it has strong resistance.

The second type: Yellow wolf pumpkin

This melon is a high-quality melon variety from Shanghai. When ripe, the skin is orange-red and covered with a layer of white frost. It weighs about 3 jin, and it takes about 110 to 120 days from germination to ripening. The pumpkin is shaped like a long mallet, about 45 cm long, and only about 15 cm wide.

The third type: large millstone pumpkin

This melon is a high-quality melon variety from Beijing. It is oblate in shape, similar to a millstone, about 30 cm wide and 15 cm long. When ripe, the skin is brown-red with light stripes and covered with a layer of white frost. This variety has less water.

The fourth type: small grinding wheel pumpkin

Early maturing, the pumpkin is oblate in shape. The fruit is oblate, similar to the shape of a small millstone. The skin of the young fruit is green when it is not ripe, and it turns brown-red when ripe, with obvious bumps on the surface. The weight is about 4 pounds.

Fifth: Ox leg pumpkin

It is late-ripening, long and cylindrical in shape, with a wider base and the roughest flesh. It takes about 110 to 120 days for this melon to mature from germination, and weighs about 30 kilograms.

Snake Pumpkin

Medium-ripening, the pumpkin is shaped as its name suggests, snake-shaped; it takes about 100 days from germination to ripening.