🎃 Pumpkin
A whole summer for three big beauties — the patient gardener's medal.
What the numbers mean
These are the actual parameters this game runs on. Growth is driven by growing degree days: each day contributes max(0, min(mean temp, 33) − 10), and Pumpkin is ready when that total reaches 1150. That is why the same seed takes a very different number of days in Dublin and in Guangzhou.
| Base temperature | 10°CBelow this, the plant accumulates no growing degree days at all. |
|---|---|
| Degree days to maturity | 1150 °C·dThe heat budget it must accumulate before it is ready to pick. |
| Comfortable range | 16–30°CWhere it grows without stress. |
| Frost damage below | 2°CLeaves start taking frost damage below this low. |
| Killed below | 0°CBelow this it does not come back. |
| Heat stress above | 34°CAbove this the plant slows down and stops setting fruit well. |
| Typical time to harvest | 90–110 days |
| Yield per bed | 3 pumpkins |
Things worth knowing
- Record giant pumpkins exceed 1,200 kg, drinking hundreds of liters of water a day.
- A single vine can run over ten meters in a season — every leaf is a solar panel working for the fruit.
Where and when to sow Pumpkin
Pick your city to see the months when Pumpkin scores well against that city's real climate records: