I previously posted in the food preservation
https://permies.com/t/50767/food-preservation/Drying-pumpkin
My seeds cam from uprising originally. The seeds are flatter than the ones sold in the stores and there is more orange to the flesh than most pictured. They do have a pumpkin flavor when fully mature but the flesh is about like a mature zucchini. When dehydrated they make excellent pumpkin four. I take some of the seeds and some of the dried flesh and whiz then together to ad to my daily double boiler seed bread.
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The ones with the most green on them I have put on my seed starting shelf where they get lots of sun to see if I can get more yellow flesh. The web that holds the seed turns yellow first and has the most intense flavor. The larger pumpkins do not get much thicker flesh than median ones but there is more by surface area. As they get more yellow on the rind the web holding the seeds is dryer and less undeveloped seeds. Qne to two cups of seeds per pumpkin.
CULTIVATION
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I started these early enough so the vines were about a foot long when transplanted. The carpet protects them from soil contamination and prevents weeds. If they hang from trellis or are free to roll as they grow they stay round but otherwise they can get a flat spot where they are sitting. With the 8 feet between rows most of them were able to roll but the most vigorous traveled the 8 feet and climbed a 4 foot fence. there was ah 16 inch pumpkin hanging on the fence.