Porcelain Doll - Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation

Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation
PO Box 670 Rocky Ford, CO 81067
pinkpumpkinpatch.org
Porcelain Doll
A Pumpkin for the Cause
Maturity
Avg Weight
120 days to first ripe fruit, harvest indicator is a “corky” stem
10 - 20 lbs
Seeding rate
1800 - 2000 / acre or 25 ft2 per plant
Growing
Concerns
and Color
Expression
• Best color expression is a true pink color, achieved on fully mature fruit. Immature fruit
starts out pale yellow in color, turning buff or cream, with pink color developing at maturity.
See photos on back of page.
• Some environmental conditions or stresses can interact with the variety’s genetics and
cause expression of non-pink fruit. Such conditions may include, but are not limited to, high
heat, soil PH effects, high plant populations and/or high fertility contributing to a dense plant
canopy and fruit shading. Depending on conditions, expression of true pink fruit can range
from 40% to 90%. Non-pink fruit can exhibit blotchy coloration, ranging from blue-grey to
green to salmon-orange in color.
• Porcelain Doll is a vigorous, full season and full length vine, with fruit set occuring at
different times as the vine grows. Because of on-going fruit set, multiple harvest are required
to maximize harvests of fully mature pink fruit.
Our commitment to breast cancer research continues. The Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation
requires a grower agreement acknowledging the growers commitment to make a donation of
25 cents per pumpkin sold to fund breast cancer research projects. We ask 4H and FFA groups
to donate 50% of the proceeds to the PPPF.
Other
grower
commitments
SEEDWAY 99 Industrial Road Elizabethtown, PA 17022
800.952.7333 www.seedway.com
Fruit
Development
Immature fruit is buff or pale
yellow in color, stem is smooth
without any “corkiness”
Photo shows stem
beginning to mature
These photos show
examples of color
variability expressed by
Porcelain Doll. This
“blotchy” color
expression will not
mature to a true pink
color.
Fully mature stem, with welldeveloped corky layers on
stem