Pumpkin seed germinated! I'm surprised that 15-year-old pumpkin seed is still viable. I saved these seed from a pumpkin that grew in my garden in 2007.

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[–]Anman 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Archeologists are growing seeds from thousands of years ago.

It's all about the plants health at the time of seeding and storage conditions. Also in modern times, whether or not the plant has been modified to not produce seeds, as often these plants will create infertile seeds.

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I hope they produce.

[–]ShekelPa 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Good to know. I have a few seeds from 15 years ago that I do not know what to do with yet.

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How did you keep the seeds? In a dark dry space or in the refrigerator?

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The seed was not refrigerated or frozen, but kept dry inside a plastic bag placed in a box in a room of my house that is usually temperature controlled, but not always. Several years ago, the seed endured the hottest part of a summer with no air conditioning. There was nothing extraordinary about the seed storage. Anybody could do this.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You put the pump in pumpkin. You get it???

Uh.. I got nothing...

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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