Cuban Neck Pumpkin Seeds, Caribbean Heirloom Crookneck

A rare Cuban crookneck landrace, vine borer resistant, heat tolerant, and almost invisible in U.S. catalogs.

🛡️ Vine borer resistance: Excellent, the solid stems of Cucurbita moschata resist the squash vine borer that kills most common pumpkins.

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Cuban Neck Pumpkin is the crookneck moschata Cuban home cooks have grown for generations. You almost never see it in American seed catalogs, it's a regional landrace passed through small networks rather than commercial channels, but it's a serious producer and a showpiece on a farmers market table.

The fruit has a long curved neck (which is where the best, seedless flesh is) and a bulb at the blossom end holding the seed cavity. Skin ranges from tan to green-streaked. Flesh is dense, sweet, and a rich deep orange. The long neck is the cook's prize, all solid flesh, no waste.

Like every variety on our shelf, it's Cucurbita moschata, which means vine borer resistance is built into the genetics. Thick fibrous stems block SVB larvae. In Kansas, where vine borer pressure peaks June through July and wipes out pepo plantings, moschata is the difference between harvest and loss. Vine borer resistance is kind of our thing at Autumn Prairie Pumpkins, and Cuban Neck is one of the showiest varieties that delivers it.