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Friday, March 13, 2009
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pumpkin cholo
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Bloomington, IN
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Earlier this month I bought a heat mat so I could finally do some practice germinations with giant pumpkin seeds. I went by Jordan Rivington’s step-by-step explanation of the paper towel method. I used a couple of seeds from 2002. Here’s the timeline:
3/3 10:30 PM - Seeds sanded till I could start to see a dark line along the edges, then soaked in a hydrogen peroxide solution for 8.5 hours - till I woke next morning.
3/4 7:00 AM - Seeds placed in a folded paper towel dampened with the peroxide solution, paper towel then put into sandwich bag, which was then placed on a ceramic plate sitting on two magazines with the heat mat at the bottom, all inside a pre-heated 18 gallon tupperware container. While I’m not sure of its accuracy, a thermometer I used placed the temperature where the seeds were at a perfect 87-90 degrees.
3/5 8:45 PM - 37.75 hours after seeds were placed in paper towel, the tip of one seed began to crack a little.
3/6 7:00 AM - 48 hours afterward, both seeds had germinated. The seed that first cracked was then sowed on one of its side edges in a pre-warmed seed starting mix, with the top edge a half inch below the soil surface.
3/8 12:00 Noon - Seed begins to emerge from soil.
3/10 – Cots were a little deformed, but Ok.
3/13 – First true leaf emerges
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