RE: Storing pumpkin seeds

I AM PROBABLY NEWER THAN THE BOTH OF YOU.  DO I HAVE TO WAIT TILL SPRING
TO GET SEEDS?  I AM A VERY-FIRST TIMER AND WILL BE TRYING MY LUCK NEXT
SPRING.  CAN SOMEONE PLEASE LET ME KNOW THE USUAL ROUTINE OF GETTING
SEEDS AND THEN PREPING THEM?  I'M AFRAID I WILL GET 3,000 E MAILS, SO IF
YOU ARE FROM CONNECTICUT OR NEW ENGLAND, HELP WILL BE APPRECIATED.

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From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Glenn Peters
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:44 AM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Re: Storing pumpkin seeds

near the train station

At 11:07 AM 11/2/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 11/2/2005 10:13:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
>holliday@sympatico.ca writes:
>
>George,  nice to see your serious reply to the question about seed
cracks.
>
>I'm  new, so forgive the stupid question.
>
>What is the best way to clean and  store pumpkin seeds for next year.  
>I've grown some 100-200 pounders  in the past but want to try my hand 
>at some really big ones, so I bought a  really big one that had a nice 
>shape and a deep orange colour and have  harvested the seeds, but don't

>know what to do next.
>
>Any  suggestions you have would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Kerry  Holliday
>100 miles north of Toronto, Canada
>
>
>
>
>Try this one.
>
>This method works well in a house that has forced hot air heat in other

>words low humidity.  I take one of those plastic planting trays and 
>line it  with newspaper.  Then place the seeds on the paper if they are

>real messy I  rinse them with plain water first.  If the paper gets too

>wet you may want  to change it once.  Place the Plant Pray in the 
>driest room of your house  with good air circulation.  After they are 
>dry usually 3 weeks I put them  in heavy duty Zip Locks bagged one bag 
>inside another and freeze them.  A  chest freezer that doesn't have a 
>circulating fan like a refrigerator works  best.  When ready to plant I

>take them from the freezer right to garden and  plant them frozen.
>I have gotten 90% germination this way with seeds 10  years old.  There

>is some school of thought that says the freezing tells  the seed it has

>wintered over and it sets a genetic trigger that increases  vigor at 
>germination.  I plant them the Direct Planting Method that  you will
find on my web
>site.   I have
>not grown AG's for several  years now because of an unidentified 
>incurable soil disease.  Whatever it  is doesn't affect Tomatoes and is

>not Watermelon Mosaic that's all I know about  it, pictures of the 
>dreaded disease are also on the Web Site.  I hope by  2007 it will be 
>out of the soil so I can grow again.
>
>Hope that helps
>George
>
>
>George  Brooks
>32 Ward Street
>North Tewksbury, MA 01876 USA
>_greenholloworchard.com_ (http://greenholloworchard.com/index.html)
>Approximately 25 miles Northwest of Boston in the Merrimack  River 
>Valley Zone 5N Personal Bests
>617.6 1991
>641 1993
>648 2000  (Unofficial & died prematurely on Aug 29)
>
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