Williams Naked Seeded Pumpkin

First time growing this variety. I started them indoors in peat pots. They were planted out late due to a cold & wet spring. Every transplant survived & thrived. When I say thrived,.I mean thrived...big beautiful plants. I planted two at one end of the garden and they grew in the wrong direction, covering my tomatos, growing up the bean & cucumber trellises. I can clearly see about 10 to 12 good sized lovely pumpkins on these two plants. The other 3 plants were put in two raised beds & are sprawling across the yard about 30 feet. I haven't harvested the pumpkins yet but very impressed so far! From a chilly & rainy spring to hot & humid 100 temperatures back to 8 of rain in 6 hours these have thrived. I am looking forward to the harvest which looks to be very good. My only warning...leave A LOT of space for these to grow. I will definitely grow again but will give them their own spot.

Grew this pumpkin in 2020. The three plants produced three REALLY BIG pumpkins. These were on two of the plants. The third plants two fruits were small and undeveloped. I live in a mountainous area (3,300 feet elevation) with a short growing season. The big pumpkins were excellent. Will try saving seed from these. BTW, Victory is a great seed producer to deal with.

Tried to grow these twice before with no success. This year I planted them in straight composted cow manure, made concerted effort not to over water, and mulched deeply. This time I was blessed with a great crop of large healthy looking fruit, they aren't quite ready for harvest yet as all my crops have been late with the weather but so far I'm happy with them.

Although a watering issue in my garden led to a crop failure of these pumpkins for me this year, a friend was kind enough to bring me a pumpkin from one of the starts I had provided him with. I just got around to roasting the seeds yesterday, and they were amazing. Plump, sweet, and nutty with absolutely no hull to speak of.

A 10 pumpkin yielded a cup of seeds, and the seeds required almost no cleaning and separated from the guts easily. This is a great pumpkin to grow, particularly if you have livestock or chickens that will eat the flesh. I'm ordering more seeds this year!

This pumpkin takes all the work out of pumpkin seeds. Planting requires some gentle handling, as the seeds are quite fragile without their protective hull. However, this is where the hassle ends. They germinated well, transplanted well, and grew with practically no attention other than regular watering. From two hills, we harvested around 14 ripe pumpkins. The seeds are delicious and all-purpose, with a nutty, earthy flavor. The flesh is best to feed to the chickens or pigs - get a good pie pumpkin if you're hoping for stringless, sweet pumpkin puree. This variety's gig is producing delicious pumpkin seeds with none of the work of cracking the hulls off, and it does it very well!

One of the 2015 crops that exceeded expectations. Our vines were huge, beautiful, and prolific. They produced 6-8 pumpkins per vine, and 1.5-2.25 cups of delicious hull-less seed per pumpkin. Super easy to grow and to remove the seeds. I've recommended this to gardening friends, and am allocating more space in our garden next year.

Each vine does not produce a whole lot, maybe four or so but it is offset by the most wonderful pumpkin seed in the world. Each pumpkin does produce a fair amount of seed and it is easy to get them out of the cavity and clean them. They were easy to grow, not much maintenance, a pretty little pumpkin and it is easy to tell when its ripe. Never had squash borers in ten years of growing but they showed up in droves for this pumpkin. I vacuumed them up every morning. This year I will grow them in cut in half 55 gallon drums and keep the vines on a trellis so I can keep a better watch for the borers. They taste like butter! They are crisp, not meaty like regular pumpkin seeds, just a very delicate seed wonderful for snacking. I have to grow a lot more this year as they are like potato chips, you can't just eat a handful.

I am sorry to say I was very disappointed with this variety. On the positive side, the plants were good-looking: just 5 plants ended up covering 80 square feet of garden! The vines came on big and strong, and when in full leaf everything looked fine and lush.

But the pumpkins were useless. Most of them rotted right on the ground. They looked nice, but when you picked them up the bottoms fell out, they were found to be maggoty inside, and they stank.

Even the ones that looked smooth and perfect and survived being ever-so-carefully picked, developed soft, rotten spots while sitting on the kitchen counter. The seeds were of uneven quality, with maybe 1/3 being flat, white and underdeveloped, while another 1/3 were post-mature and sprouting while in the cavity of the pumpkin. The flesh of the pumpkin was soft, pale yellow and watery. Half of it was too mushy to use.

Sorry, like I said. Maybe I should blame the weather.

The vines are quite large and the male flowers are sometimes triplets or twins. However my plants are quite conservative with the female flowers, only setting about three or for within a reasonable amount of time. Also very tough plants and vigorous, they have thrived even with chickens breaking into the garden and trampling them quite a fiew times.

We love these pumpkins! The seeds are delicious and the flesh is thick. We made lots of puree for pie and the kids carved jack-o-lanterns with the rest. Great Variety! Will definitely grow again!