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Minnesota

Does anybody have a guess, 200? in a 500+ AGPumpkin, that are good.

8/18/2007 2:07:44 PM

Netherlands

0-1000, so average 500 :)

8/18/2007 2:34:45 PM

San Jose garysand@pacbell.net

mine was 439 last year, got about 250 seeds, only about 60% were good

8/18/2007 3:15:14 PM

Buffalo, New York

for a 1000 lb pumpkin, how big are these seeds?

8/19/2007 11:54:52 AM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

as big as seeds from a 300 lb pumpkin....

8/19/2007 12:38:35 PM

Minnesota

Hmmmmm.....

8/19/2007 7:08:49 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

The largest amount of seeds I've ever collected was 850 from a 280 pounder. The least was fewer than 50.

Seeds will be the same size regardless of pumpkin weight but seeds from different genetic lines can differ in color & size.

8/19/2007 8:30:36 PM

Hayward, CA

Can I keep growing plants from the pumpkin's seeds from our 2007 Dills packet of seeds(3 plants growing this year) and get them to get bigger every year, or do we need to introduce a better genetic line and cross them to get larger pumpkins. Our pumpkins now at for weeks are the size of beach balls and still kinda growing little bits every day. This is alot of fun and I was going too do it just this year. It appears that this is now an every year project and I am going to try this next year to grow one of our own seeds as well!!!!
Puter

8/19/2007 10:52:09 PM

Netherlands

Puter, it took decades to get to where we are now. It would be much easier to get some good seeds from growers here.

8/20/2007 5:00:58 AM

Ray, North Dakota

Puter, Brad is right. Get free seeds from people in here. It is totally different from the store boughten seeds.

8/20/2007 8:27:02 AM

Minnesota

Yes, come fall/November request seeds. You then send a bubble envelope in a bubble envelope with a thank you note. (at least thats the way I've done it, I think that's what they mean)I'm a begginer also.

8/20/2007 5:50:58 PM

Hayward, CA

Thanks all for the replies. We are in this for the long run, just not the competitive one. (Yet) I will do as you suggest. Just thought it would be fun to see if we could get a big one from what we had started with. Guess genetics do have a lot to do with the size. But this is still a blast!!

8/20/2007 11:41:05 PM