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Santa Cruz, CA

Add here your refresher course in what to do and not to do when starting your pumpkin seeds.

4/11/2007 12:11:11 AM

Puyallup, WA

Well....for starters, you might go to the Seed Starting message board. Just click on the "Return to Board List" to find that forum.

4/11/2007 1:18:09 AM

Deer Park WA

Start them and then dont kill them along the way...

4/11/2007 1:34:27 AM

[email protected]

Too wet is the worst thing.
85-90°F at all times.

4/11/2007 7:26:48 AM

Omaha, NE (N41-15-42 )

don't soak them in 35% hydrogen peroxide. (Mistook it for a 3% bottle on a seed I won't identify a couple of weeks ago)

4/11/2007 4:15:45 PM

Sort of Sunny Sometimes, WA

Don't plant them pointy side up. Don't forget to poke lots of holes in your peat pots. And don't think they're going to sprout on your windowsill. Of course I've never done any of those things. . .

4/11/2007 9:19:02 PM

No Place Special

wickless!!!!!

4/11/2007 10:20:55 PM

Ohio

Dang Stan!! I told you about hanging around with MattFoxx and it looks like its time to cut ties, just look what he is doing to you,LOL!!

4/11/2007 10:30:52 PM

Ohio

Oh and Creek, do a search in the search box.




LoL kidding ya bud, and you too Stan!,LOL

4/11/2007 10:34:01 PM

Nashville, TN

hmmm... Don't forget to open those plastic bags, don't forget them soaking in the sink overnight, and DON'T - I repeat DON'T - leave them where your kids can switch their tags.. (as a 'joke' of course.)

4/12/2007 5:05:34 PM

Somers, CT

Don't put them in wet paper towels inside plastic bags until they smell bad and get all slimy. I now start them right in the pot with a heat lamp facing them. If you can control the temperature good enough it works well.

4/12/2007 7:35:13 PM

ordinary,VA

try Joe Pukos method on starting seed.

Joe puts his seeds in 1/2 gallon ice cream containers..
the seeds are placed inside a large insulated picnic cooler with two one gallon milk jugs filled with hot tap water.with the cover closed on the cooler the temperatures get up 85-90 degrees.refill the gallon jugs with hot water every 8 hours.

4/12/2007 8:14:31 PM

Rhode Island

thats joes method only because it gives him an excuse to eat more ice cream

4/13/2007 6:57:31 AM

Minnesota([email protected])

Dang pap, I should have thought of that! I've been keeping oatmeal containers. Ice cream would be much more tasty. At least I get plenty of fiber LOL.

4/13/2007 12:56:54 PM

ordinary,VA

lol Pap !!

4/13/2007 4:41:31 PM

Ohio

try them handwarmers that you buy at wal mart, buy the ones that last 20 hrs (shake bag and they heat), nice thing is they lay nice and flat so you can sit your container on like you do a heating mat.

4/14/2007 4:42:35 AM

Danville, CA ([email protected])

Soak for 3 hours or so.
Then into preheated dirt and into one of those plastic tubs from Target.
Waterbed heater (very cheap on eBay) on the bottom with an elevated platform on which to put the pots.
Set to keep around 85.
Bowl of water in the corner to keep it humid.
Check every 12 hours or so.

4/14/2007 11:26:55 AM

Minnesota([email protected])

I think an important key is to plant in a soiless seed starting(or maybe sterilized soil) mix. Planting in regular potting soil could cause seed rot.

4/14/2007 1:13:06 PM

Minnesota

I'm new but, I never have trouble getting them all to come up, I place them in a cup or container, I used half gallon milk containers last year, with dirt, 1 inch down, wet, not to wet, use your head, just a little for the small seedlings. First I soak them for 4 hours in water, this year is the first year I have filed the edges, I expect them to come up evev faster. Thanks

4/18/2007 9:10:35 PM

Minnesota

oh yah, keep them out of the sun directly and away from the cat, and that's it, slowly as they come up start giving them more and more sun.

4/18/2007 9:12:37 PM