95 to 100 days. AAS Award Winner for 2004. Sunshine is a kabocha squash that out-shined other varieties in side-by-side trails across North America. Has a distinctive vibrant orange-red skin with bright orange flesh that is sweet, nutty, creamy smooth and completely stringless when baked, steamed or microwaved. The 3 to 4 pound fruits are a flattened globe in shape not unlike 'Sweet Meat' but bright orange. Harvest ripe fruit in the fall prior to or protect from frost. Short 6 to 8 foot vines. Approx. 175 seeds/oz.