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Zimmerman, Minnesota

Well, it always depends on the competition, but with prettiest pumpkin award generally you’re looking at orange is the first thing to catch a person‘s eye. After orange, then the two criteria I always look at our shape and size with the final determining factor how many scratches or marks there are on the pumpkin. Truth be told on the two pumpkins above. The color of the bottom picture put onto the shape of the top picture would’ve been a perfect match, but you don’t always get that. I’m afraid if you use the top pumpkin, it won’t even get noticed. If there’s another orange one there which means you will more than likely have to default to the bottom one because of color alone. Not ideal, but that color alone in a smaller competition could pull off a prettiest pumpkin award.

Best of luck!! hope it goes heavy to chart and hopefully you can snag a prettiest pumpkin win!!!!

10/7/2025 9:58:53 AM

Grittyville, WA

Agree with this. Shape can be random, color is genetic, the bottom lineage would be my choice if choosing a seed to grow. Could be a nice one to try growing "blossom down", next time? The bottom one is more likely to be a producer of HD's in the future, so enter it for the award???

10/7/2025 10:13:53 AM

South Bloomfield, Ohio

I'd give the lower pumpkin the Howard Dill Award vote.

10/7/2025 12:43:44 PM

Kelowna, British Columbia

Bottom

10/7/2025 10:06:55 PM

Moscow, Russia

Thanks a lot to everyone for their advice! There were the same doubts, although the first thought was about the lower pumpkin.

10/8/2025 6:42:48 AM