Winter Squash- Kakai
Cucurbita pepo
Standard seed packet, 10 seeds
$2.50
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Winter Squash- Kakai
Cucurbita pepo
- Can be left to mature and used as a small pumpkin
- Compact vine
- African Heirloom variety
Compact vine with a semi-bushy habit. Produces small orange and green striped fruits. Grown for its edible hull-less seeds known as pepitas, this variety is one of the few winter squash varieties that don't produce a shell around the seed so seeds don't need to be shucked to be eaten. Seeds are great for salting & roasting and make a highly nutritious snack food. Whilst the fruit is edible roasted, it is flavourless with a watery texture. Also known as "hulless pumpkin".
How to sow and grow:
| Method: | Sow direct |
| Sowing Depth: | 15mm |
| When: | Spring and summer |
| Germination: | 5-10 days @ 21-35°C |
| Hardiness / Life Cycle: | Frost tender Annual |
| Row Spacing: | 100cm |
| Plant Spacing: | 50cm |
| Position: | Full sun, moist well drained soil |
| Days to Maturity/Flowering: | 100 days |
(Product number: E5-17)
Seeds per gram: 10 seeds
| SKU | E5-17 |
| Shipping Weight | 0.0016kg |
| Botanical name: | Cucurbita pepo |
| Packet type: | Standard seed packet |
| Packet quantity: | 10 seeds |
| Seeds per gram: | 10 |
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