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It just turns orange as it ripens, which also shows when the pumpkin is ready to be picked. There isn't really a reason why vegetables/fruits turn colors. It is just the natural color they turn when they ripen.

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It is the color that they really are in the absence of chlorophyll (food) for the pumpkin to grow. Chloraphyll is green so when the plant stops producing food for the pumpkin to grow, the pumpkin turns orange.

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Pumpkin color is nothing but a 'greyed' or toned down orange. Try mixing a little blue into the orange.

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