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Pennsylvania

I was paging through some papers that came with my 1157 Companion andit said that it was a cucurbita pepo. I always thought that Atlantic Giants were cucurbita maxima. The papers were from customs however (I live in the U.S. and I ordered it from Howard Dill in Nova Scotia). They made a mistake right?

5/17/2008 9:13:38 PM

Rexburg, Idaho

you can't trust customs. They messed it up.

5/18/2008 10:49:29 AM

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C. pepo is a hard stemmed pumpkin.

C. maxima (eg. Dill's Atlantic Giants) are soft stemmed winter squash originating in S. America.

The 1157 is a C. Maxima or Dill's Atlantic Giant.

5/18/2008 10:56:50 PM