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Midway City, California

While reviewing John Holland's Video Tape there was a segment where a contestant at a weigh-off was removing the seeds. when he pulled them out of the pumpkin he said " The seeds are White, this is great".

My Question Are white seeds better the Brown seeds and if yes. WHY

The reason I am asking this question is that my 400 lb estimated pumpkin had all white seeds in it.

John = Water

2/20/2001 11:06:17 PM

Buffalo, Minnesota

Joh~ im not totally certain about this, but i think the whiter colored seeds are just unmatured brown seeds, all the white seeds that i have seen seem to be a little smaller and skimp, and thinner, to me white seeds usually dont look as healthy as a brown seeds, but i could very well be wrong. ~Bill

2/21/2001 2:21:32 AM

Deer Park WA

Whoa there WildBill, I have white seeds from my last year 410# fruit that are fully mature, in fact I just started 10 of them to test viability and all 10 came up within 3 days.
My white seeds were from a very orange plant the 2000 Dill 810#. I also belive the legendary 567.5 Mombert also had white seeds. If the pumpkin has "Cantaloping" on it as most mature pumpkins do, then the seeds are probably mature.
As to which seeds are better brown or white no one can say.

Best of luck in 2001 whatever the seed color!!!!

2/21/2001 2:35:46 PM

Connecticut, USA

I've heard that white seeds are brown seeds without the hard brown "husk". So, they are easier to germinate... less filing to weaken the seed.

Now I can't get that damned "Brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh" jingle out of my mind!

John

2/21/2001 3:18:53 PM

Choctaw, OK

I think he means by unmature brown seeds is that those seeds did not develope the brown outside coating. The white seed is probably a recessive trait....and seems to be in the 567.5 Mombert family....the 801.5 stelts and 825.5 shymanski have put out many white seed pumpkins. Personally, white seeds are much more easier to germinate in my opinion.....and i don't think there is an advantage to either one but besides the germination thing. Otherwise....in my mind, tan and white can produce eqaully the same(pumpkin size and plant size). If you think white seeds are usually smaller, they are in a way, they are not as thick but can be just as big as a tan seed. The 875.4 Checkon 2000 has big white seeds...exact copies of the 946.5 geerts tan seeds but without the brown "husk".

2/21/2001 10:08:24 PM

Brown seeds have a white one in them, just take a junk seed and use your fingernail and peel off the tan stuff. Start at the edge. This doesn't work with the long narrow thick ones though.

Alex

2/22/2001 9:49:47 PM

Midway City, California

While browsing through How-to-grow World Class Giant Pumpkins,ll I found the following information.

Page 46. The 567.5

Kirk Mombert's 567.5-pound pumpkin, grow in 1992, after a slow reception from growers, gradually became the most sort after seed stock in the world by 1997. In 1995 and 1997, nearly a third of all the over-700-pound pumpkins in the world came from the 567.5. This white-seeded seed stock has produced many world class pumpkins with most being fair skinned, shiny orange and deep ribbed.

2/23/2001 12:29:09 PM

walton n.y.

as i understand white seeds can be mature they just don't get that brown husk over them some say that white seeds germinate faster but i've had good results with both i wonder if seed color can have an effect on the percentage a fruit weighs in heavy or light by useing ott measurements

2/24/2001 9:01:14 PM