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What's the oldest seed anyone here has heard of germinating?

1/10/2005 3:55:21 PM

New Jersey

They have germinated a approx. 1288 Year Old Lotus Seed.
http://www.flowerpictures.net/lotus/lotus_seeds.htm

1/10/2005 4:19:31 PM

Garden

This page says 4 years for pumpkins, but I have also read of some germinating 5 year old seed.

http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/1995/3-3-1995/seedv.html

1/10/2005 5:01:56 PM

Garden

Tremor, didnt you say you got some pretty old seed to grow? What your oldest?

1/10/2005 5:04:56 PM

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To date the oldest Pumpkin seed I ever germinated was 5 years old. I thought I heard of 7-8 years.

The seeds I want to try are from 1976.

1/10/2005 5:46:55 PM

Phoenix, AZ

heard they have germinated grain from Egyptian tombs over 3000 year old. Would be interesting if it is true.

1/10/2005 6:02:57 PM

Webster, NY

On pumpkinnoon.com there is a story about some 50 year old pie pumpkin seeds germinating and doing quite well.

1/10/2005 6:33:41 PM

C N Y

pumpkin nook??? lol!
and, he planted them all at the same time.
so, they may be all gone. i hope he had some nice fruits
from them, those 50-year-old seeds!

1/10/2005 6:58:01 PM

New Jersey

I'd say they have a shot if they were kept in good conditions.

Scary thought, those seeds are from before I was born. Ouch.

1/10/2005 7:16:09 PM

Cincinnati,OH

I got 2 out of 3 781 Schlutt 96 seeds to germinate last year.(no special treatment). At germination they looked a little sickly compared to newer seeds but grew quite robustly afterward.

1/10/2005 7:50:12 PM

Cornelius, Oregon

Last year I germinated and grew the 697 Ciliberto 94. It produced a 469 on a flag style pattern on 3 vines.
The Pumpkinguru

1/11/2005 1:04:22 PM

Belgium

I am going to TRY to grow a 1995 seed next year

1/11/2005 2:38:43 PM