# Polar Corn and Polar Melons 2024

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**Category:** Adaptation Projects\
**Tags:** corn, cold-tolerance, melon\
**Created:** [November 13, 2024, 6:47pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/polar-corn-and-polar-melons-2024/3164 "2024-11-13T18:47:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![polarca](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/polarca/32/4837_2.png) [@polarca](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/polarca)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/polar-corn-and-polar-melons-2024/3164/10 "2024-11-14T15:02:31Z")

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I will have maxima (both a super wide grex and seed taken from the beefiest fruits separately because I got some monsters this year), cukes (I have something like two liters of seeds), pepo (there is a [thread](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/pepo-multi-way-cross-that-doubles-as-pumpkin-cold-climate) I opened about it last year: I want a pepo that yields like a summer squash but if I miss the harvest window, it should store as a pumpkin and sweeten up in storage. Further, I want it to have carotene-rich and firm, not pudgy, flesh). Possibly some coccineus as I grew out a super wide population. I don’t know yet!

Here are some cukes and pepos (I have yet to see which ones have the kind of “pumpkin-like” flesh I want). The maximas I already posted in Tanja’s thread recently…

 ![IMG_9996](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/landracegardening/original/2X/1/1003d0b990cbdbfe93231103ab334b4ce0b11d57.jpeg)  
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 ![IMG_9999](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/landracegardening/original/2X/0/008b997810fcb456837c8b2443445523ea2e6d4a.jpeg)  
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