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porterville, calif.

What is the dumbmist thing you have ever done with a seed?
I really did a stupid thing with a seed last night. Now it is gone.
If any of you confess to what stupid thing you did, I,ll confess to mine. I bet I top what ever you did

5/1/2007 9:01:32 PM

Denver, CO

I have waited 10 days for a seed to sprout, only to find out that I forgot to put the damn seed in the pot!

5/1/2007 9:05:26 PM

Minnesota

I thought the container said I planted it a week ago with no activity, I dug it up and thought, dam I waterlogged another one, only to find out the container said I planted it yesterday, it was a perfectly good seed I just tore up and thru out. dum dum dum

5/1/2007 9:44:10 PM

porterville, calif.

Ive got those beat

5/1/2007 10:21:32 PM

Delaware, Ohio

Oh you have to tell.....I've only done the planting thing for 2 years. My dumbest thing was asking which way the seed went into the pot. Hope it wasn't a really good one. And good luck with the next try.

5/1/2007 10:43:41 PM

Delaware, Ohio

A really good seed I mean

5/1/2007 10:44:11 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

When rinsing the seed off, after soaking it, did it slip thru yer fingers and go down the drain????? Peace, Wayne

5/1/2007 10:53:58 PM

porterville, calif.

It kind of went down a drain

5/1/2007 11:23:23 PM

porterville, calif.

I,ll tell what i did Thursday nite

5/1/2007 11:25:32 PM

Indiana

I gurantee I take the cake...but am to embarASSed to own up....

5/1/2007 11:27:20 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

Greg,
Were you soaking the seed in the toilet, and flushed it down? Just a guess.

5/2/2007 12:07:46 AM

Rhode Island

you were testing the thickness and snapped the seed in half?

5/2/2007 5:46:33 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

Last year I used a really old sprayer my wife had with her first, to foliar spray. Had not been used for 7+ YEARS. I rinsed and rinsed good.... was streched for cash and it was a nice sprayer.... .....it only took 1 day to figure out what ever it had inside was not good for pumpkin leaves.....I was told, but I didnt believe, now I believe.

5/2/2007 9:20:07 AM

Rhode Island

you had no heat in your house so you put them in the warmest spot in your body?

5/2/2007 1:18:17 PM

Sort of Sunny Sometimes, WA

You put it by your car keys and now you can't find it?

5/2/2007 1:46:20 PM

I think this is the perfect post for Brook's story about the time he stuck a pin through a 1097 seed.

5/2/2007 3:11:11 PM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

I actually had a mouse chew into my bubble wrap envelope and eat a few pretty good seeds once..now I keep them in a more mouse proof container..lol..

5/2/2007 4:05:20 PM

Massachusettts

I was sitting on my kitchen floor the other night wallowing in my seeds (you don't?) and my new puppy chewed one up, he used to be the cutest little thing.

5/2/2007 4:22:32 PM

Hensler North Dakota

Nice post Greg. My dumb happened just last week. Crushed a 1097. I thought the paper towel that I had been soaking my seeds in was empty but no I wasn't paying attention and crunched the 1097

5/2/2007 5:52:54 PM

North Smithfield, RI USA

Well--I planted cucumber seeds by mistake and was waiting for AG to grow ! On July 15th there was salad fixuns but nothing to pollinate ! Another wait until next year story !!!

5/2/2007 6:29:25 PM

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That must have been SOME cucumber!!!

5/2/2007 8:19:15 PM

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One year I used an old gibberellic acid formulation at the correct rate on an 845 Nesbit & a 707 Toftness. The bottle was old & had no label. The weather was cool so I got very little response. Getting nervous, I called the manufacturer rep (friend of mine) who checked his old records for the product & informed me that I had used 1/4 of the correct dose. Hmm...no wonder.

Next day (warmer) I applied my buddies recommended dose. Later the same day the leaves were reaching for the sky & the vine elongation was VISIBLE! Jeremy called me the following day to explain he had made a mistake - my prior rate was correct. So I had now made the equivalent of 5 applications in less than 72 hours.

4-6 feet of vine growth per day was common for a week!

The plants responded with all male flowers for 6 weeks. I didn't see a female until the vine was 45 feet long. I didn't get a fruit to set on the 707 until it the main was 55 feet long but by then it was late August.

The 845 developed a strange knob on the end of the main & never grew again all year. The 707 grew like mad. I ended up turning it 180 degrees back on itself to keep it on my property. Chopped all of the secondaries on the inside of the curve.

Pictures of that fiasco are in one of my diaries.

5/2/2007 8:30:58 PM

porterville, calif.

I was going to wait till Thrusday, but decided no will top what i did, or at least fess up to it.
Here is what i did. I was trying to decide between a 901 Cole or a 1069.5 Zunino to start. I just fliped a coin and went with the Zunino. I sanded it down to get it ready to soak.
I started all of my other seeds using 20 oz. water drinking bottles. I mixed up a solution of peroxcide and water. I put the seed in and tighten the lid down real good.
I put the bottle over on the heat mat im using for my other plants. This was about midnite and I was getting sleepy. I got a fresh bottle of water out of the icebox to drink during the nite when I was thirsty I took the one put it next to the bed with me. I woke up in the middel of the nite. I took a drink of the water went back to sleep.
I went to work at 5:30 AM, came home for lunch at 11:30 Am
I went to take the seed out of the bottle, it was gone. I looked every where for it. Then I figured out I dranked it. Man how stupid can you be. Ya it went down the drain alright mine!! I just can,t believe i did that

5/2/2007 10:44:07 PM

Denver, CO

Yup. You Win.

5/2/2007 10:52:55 PM

Phoenix, AZ

I wanna hear about the fruit that grew out of your other end...

5/2/2007 11:29:12 PM

maine USA

I am amazed that you didn't choke on it!

5/3/2007 12:17:37 AM

Delaware, Ohio

In July, if you start gaining 20 pounds a day, I'd be worried!
You win!

5/3/2007 8:03:46 AM

ordinary,VA

WOW!!
Thank you. just let me off the hook
u-win.

5/3/2007 2:06:30 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Ahhh you guys wait until you start pruning...I have seen more than once seen someone prune the main vine with a good one growing.

5/3/2007 3:04:31 PM

Ohio

I was poking holes through a bag that held my starter seed so they wouldnt sweat?, I really dont know what I was thinking to tell you the truth. But I thought I dumped the seed out of the bag, but my 1097 Beachy was stuck in the corner and I didnt know it and poked a hole right through the center of the seed, it still grew to
845 lbs.(I need to start poking more holes in my seeds I think)

Brooks

5/4/2007 12:24:59 AM