Anyone else buy some of the David The Good “Zombie Pumpkin” seeds?
These are a cross between his seminole pumpkins and a rare black colored Caribbean landrace pumpkin he brought back from their time living on the island of Grenada.
Here’s the etsy listing from his daughters store:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4358991454/zombie-pumpkins-limited-rare-variety?ref=yr_purchases
I would have loved to Buy some but they don’t ship to the Netherlands.
Hopefully we can get some there eventually!
Has David the Good talked about those specifically somewhere? They look really special and I’ve never heard of those before.
He’s talked about the cross he calls the zombie pumpkins in many of his latest videos.
He also talked more about the original black pumpkins in a few videos (probably last year). He had been trying to grow those original seeds but they ended up accidentally crossing the with the seminoles.
He has said out of the zombie pumpkin’s they have eaten they have tasted better than either of the parents.
Here’s a post about the original black pumpkins from his blog:
That’s so cool thank you! I’m gonna look into it 
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@Tanjaeskildsen and I in Europe have some seeds from dark green to brown flesh in moschata, most originating from Tanja’s crosses with a Seminole too, some of Joseph’s butternuts, and Ayote pumpkin, which seems to be a Guatemalan landrace. They look rrrrreally nice and are so sweet. Only problem for most is that they are quite long season fruiting.
I just bought some. I’ve actually had them sitting in my cart, haha. I bought that along with the landrace watermelons. I’m excited b/c I’m also in AL. I’m going to have so much fun this next summer. Just wish I had more land!
I waited all year to get those watermelon seeds!
Last year they repeatedly sold out right after becoming available.
Kind of disappointed as I imagined DTG pumpkins were dark coloured inside… anyway they look terrific!
Dark inside would be cool. I wonder if there are any varieties selected for that and how dark or which colors are possible.
The green flesh varieties are the darkest I have seen.
I haven’t seen him talk about if they have been selecting for specific traits with the Zombie squash, or the seminole squash either. Aside from survivability.
You could always get some of the seed and select for darker flesh.
I think right now they are just dealing with acres of feral pumpkins 
I’m not sure what they will be doing with them long term but in the latest video he mentioned the flavor being really good but not knowing if it will be consistent in future generations since these are basically F1 of the two pumpkins.
So I assume they will be selecting for eating quality.
At the end of that long post I showed some: Direct seed exchange among EU members 2024-2025 - #21 by ThomasPicard
You got the green fleshed and some really brown, all originating from Tanja’s populations initially. The Yolk Color Fan allows you to assess how dark those really were. Breeders use that to assess carotene in squash usually as a way to assess more global antioxydant properties, so to say “nutrient density” relatively to that criteria.