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Deer Park WA

Hello list, We have dried all our seeds from our 651# pumpkin, and we are in the process of "grading" them. There were 375 seeds from our 651'er, and after narrowing them down from causes like mold, cracks, hollowness, immaturity, strange deformities, and other defects. We wound up with 43 "perfect" seeds. Do any of you folks have a system you use to determine which seeds you keep as your private reserve, are some of the moldy cracked ones ok or will it effect their vitality? Thanks in advance

The Gadberry's

10/29/2002 11:45:09 PM

Kentucky - USA

I dont think mold will much hurt them. You can usually wipe it off after the seeds fully dries. I tested some of mine that molded and they came up fine.

Tim

10/29/2002 11:59:13 PM

Honesdale, Pennsylvania

Don't let those white immature tips fool you. The Bobier 723 is known to have them and the majority of the seeds from my 797 last year had white tips. They seem to germinate just fine. I individually drop them on my counter top from about 10 inches and you can easily detect which ones are hollow from the sound.

10/30/2002 6:50:49 AM

i've been test germinating seeds with surface cracks and everyone grew..

10/30/2002 7:44:03 AM

Caceres, Spain

I use the radioesthesia with a pendulum.
Is the finest way.

10/30/2002 2:20:30 PM

South Hill, Virginia

thats what I was about to say;)

10/30/2002 2:45:17 PM

Key West, FL

Surface cracks should be fine, deformalites?? like odd swelling? I think they should be all right. You should try test germinating a seed from each defect you think they have and see if they do germinate for example try germinating one moldy one, one cracked one and so on.
ben

10/30/2002 6:10:15 PM