Re: seeds not spliting am i doing something wrong ?

I have had 100% germination with my tecnique past few years, no roted seeds, I sand the edges , soak the seeds for a few minutes in some warm water , then dip them in Capten (fungicide powder) , then push the capten coated seeds into the soil till about 1/2" of soil is over the top of them. Pointed end down of course. I beleive the captan helps prevent any kind of fungas or rotting that a lot of growers experience. Hope this helps Brian.
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From: Chris9137@aol.com
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:37:02 EDT
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: seeds not spliting am i doing something wrong ?

Re: i only have one plant growing the others wont split i sanded the edges soaked 
Re: them in water left them on wet papertowels even put a light above them to 
Re: give them heat  but nothing yet i need to get these guys to start. i'm out of 
Re: good seeds but i think these will be ok they aren't mushey i put them in soil 
Re: and watered them maybe that will work im out of ideas so far only one i got 
Re: to start was an al berard #746 2001 dont know much about this one but its 
Re: looking good so far i also had an al berard #716 2001 but it didn't split and 
Re: got mushey and rotted i have 3 left im hoping for the best 
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