Re: My pumpkin seeds got burned
Judy
It really sounds like your seeds are toast (pardon the pun).If you're stuck
for seed for this coming season, e-mail me privately with your address and
I'll send you some fairly decent seed along with their family trees.
Jake van Kooten
Port Alberni, B.C.
P.S. Don't throw out your husband. Good ones are hard to come by.
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> From: GBPUMPKIN@aol.com
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: My pumpkin seeds got burned
> Date: January 31, 2000 2:03 PM
>
> In a message dated 1/31/00 4:12:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> stallcop@medford.net writes:
>
> << Subj: My pumpkin seeds got burned
> Date: 1/31/00 4:12:55 PM Eastern Standard Time
> From: stallcop@medford.net (Judy Stallcop)
> Sender: owner-pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Reply-to: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com (Pumpkins@Mallorn. Com)
>
> Hello, hope everyone is well.. Some of you may remember me, awhile ago
I
> wrote in asking about my pumpkin seeds that had molded. Well, I hand
washed
> every seed and had them sitting in the oven with the light on for about
two
> weeks. They were really drying out. Well, yesterday during the Super
Bowl
> my husband decided to heat up a sandwich. He put the oven on broil and
> walked away. A little while later he went to put in his sandwich and
> noticed that he had turned on the WRONG oven. My pumpkin seeds were
> smoking........... Most of them are quite dark(black or dark brown).
>
> Ok, the magic question: Is their any hope for the seeds now, or should
I
> throw them away along with my husband??????????
>
> Judy
> Medford, Oregon
> >>
> Test germinate 10 of them in a wet paper towel slipped into a ZipLoc and
put
> in a warm spot. I do have a book that tells the benefits of organic
matter
> to garden soil, I'll see if it lists husbands.
>
>
> George
>
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