Pumpkin · Tonalá, Jalisco, Mexico
When to plant pumpkins in Tonalá
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Tonalá, on your chosen risk.
First autumn frost
26 December
The far end of the outdoor season.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Tonalá
Each window is a range, not a single day. Earlier in the range buys you a longer season; later in it buys you a safer one.
Pumpkins through the year
Against the frost risk in Tonalá
Why these dates
If your frost-free season is shorter than 110 days, start indoors and choose a smaller cultivar. Giant pumpkins are a long-season crop, not a beginner one.
Foliage dies at the first frost, but mature fruit tolerates a light touch. Harvest before a hard frost or the flesh will not store.
Seed packets and extension guides express timing as weeks either side of the last spring frost, because that is the only reference point that travels. Pumpkins are timed from 3 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Tonalá.
Nearby
Pumpkins in places close by
Also in Tonalá
Other vegetables to time
Growing pumpkins in Tonalá
How much frost will pumpkins tolerate?
Foliage dies at the first frost, but mature fruit tolerates a light touch. Harvest before a hard frost or the flesh will not store.