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Thursday, April 05, 2018
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The Pumpkinguru
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Cornelius, Oregon
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Entry 42 of 53 |
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This is what I start my giant and regular pumpkin and squash seeds in. They are simply food containers from any supermarket deli. I wash them out and reuse for this purpose. Some markets will just sell them to you outright for a very cheap price. I like using the clear containers so that I can watch the progress and health of the roots, and once they reach the bottom, I transplant them out into their final positions out in the garden or competition pumpkin patch. For normal pumpkins and squash, I just use a basic seed starting mix, nothing special. For the competition seeds I use a sterilized seed starting mix, add mycorrhizal fungi, root shield, bio-char, lite balanced slow released fertilizer, and a lite amount of humic acid mixed in the water used to moisten the mix. The moisture level I use for the mix is over-saturate the mix, then scoop out handfuls and squeeze out all the water I can by hand. 95% of the time I do not need to re-water as the seeds burst from the soil so quickly.
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