Oh The Choices!

           
   Did you know there are many varieties of pumpkins? Check out these varieties and what they are used for.

The Standard Orange Variety:
Grows between 2 to 5 pounds
Baby Bear (small, flattened shape; fine stem)
Baby Pam; Oz (hybrid, very smooth skin, immature yellow color)
Small Sugar or New England Pie (the standard pie type)
Spooktacular (hybrid; bright orange; ribbed)
Sugar Treat (hybrid; bright color)
Winter Luxury (old variety, good for cooking; unique netted skin)

Standard Orange:
Grows between 8 to 15 pounds
Autumn Gold (hybrid, yellow when immature)
Bushkin (hybrid)
Frosty (hybrid; smooth-textured skin)
Funny Face (hybrid)
Harvest Moon (hybrid)
Jack-o-Lantern
Spirit (hybrid, semi-bush)
Young's Beauty


Standard Orange:
Grows between 15 to 25 pounds
Aspen (hybrid, deep orange, uniformly large)
Big Autumn (hybrid, yellow when mature)
Big Tom
Connecticut Field (the old standard)
Ghost Rider (dark orange; very dark green stem)
Happy Jack (uniform, dark orange)
Howden Field (the industry standard for the last 20 years)
Jackpot (hybrid; round)
Jumpin' Jack (large, dark orange, heavy, tall)
Pankow's Field (large, variable pumpkins with exceptionally large, long stems).

Rouge Vif d'Estampes (deep red-orange, flattened, heavily sutured. It was the prototype for Cinderella's carriage pumpkin and is sometimes sold as "Cinderella" pumpkin.)

Types for canning and cooking:
Buckskin (hybrid)
Chelsey (hybrid)
Dickinson Field
Kentucky Field

Jumbo Pumpkins:
Grows between 50, 100 pounds to much larger:
Atlantic Giant (most true giants come from this variety)
Big Max
Big Moon
Mammoth Gold
Prizewinner

White Painting
Casper
Lumina
Snowball
Little Boo

Cushaw Group
Green-Striped Cushaw
Sweet Potato
Tennessee
White Cushaw
Golden Cushaw

Naked-Seeded:
Trick or Treat (hybrid, 10 to 12 pounds, good for carving)
Tricky Jack (hybrid; small)
Triple Treat (thick flesh; 6 to 8 pounds; cooks, carves well)


Miniature Pumpkin:
Baby Boo (white)
Jack-Be-Little (standard orange miniature)
Jack-Be-Quick (taller, darker orange)
Munchkin (uniform, attractive orange)
Sweetie Pie (small, scalloped, medium orange)





Source: http://www.pumpkin-patch.com/varieties.html