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Saving Fancy Pumpkin Seeds To Grow Next Year! WARNING ⚠️ Watch Toxic Squash Sydrome With This Method
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Happy Halloween plant people! Literally this is my favorite holiday. I'm gonna call it a holiday
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Anyways, today's video we're gonna be looking at how to save the pumpkin seeds from those bougie
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pumpkins that you get at the store. First, I want you to hit that like button and comment down below
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if you've heard of toxic squash syndrome. I went all out this year. I bought one I think it was
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like 12 bucks which is ridiculous and then I got like the warty one and the really light pink and
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white you name it because every single year I try to purchase the seeds for
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these pumpkins they're sold out within minutes so I thought I'm just gonna buy
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the dang pumpkin and then I'll save the seeds from them so we're gonna going
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through start to finish how to do this now what I will say is there's a spooky
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tale to doing this that we'll talk about a little bit later so if you intend to
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eat these if you intend to eat these squash I highly encourage you to watch
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this video to the very end it could save your life seriously not joking so let's
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get into it inside of here I have a ton of different pumpkin seeds that I've
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saved now the first step of saving these pumpkin seeds is actually drying them
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off so you're gonna notice you're gonna have the string is on there and that
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sort of stuff so the best way to do this is to simply lay them out on a piece of
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paper towel and as you lay them out you want to maybe give them a little bit of
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a scrub to kind of get off that excess slime now the nice part about these
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seeds is that they do not I repeat do not need to be fermented or anything
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like that because in your head you're thinking well it has that slimy coating
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on the outside is that not the purpose similar to what a tomato is the answer
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that is no because the actual seed is inside of this very thick seed coat that woody part that you kind of chew on when you cracking pumpkin seeds or pumpkin seeds well i know there people that do that sounds crazy but it a thing and so when you chew on that that actually the seed coating the seed itself is inside of that so we don need to
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ferment it we don't have to do anything special so that is method one to seed saving the second
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method to this is very simple it's called yeeting the pumpkin into the backyard and this is obviously
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not seed saving in a sense that you could reuse these year after year unless you harvested the
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pumpkins and save seeds from them but it works brilliantly because I've done it in the past we've
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done it as a child I've done this my parents have done this for years so that is something to keep
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in mind there's no guarantee it's gonna work but there's a high probability that it will it works
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in my colder zone three but some years it doesn't pan out as well so that would be your second method
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Now keep in mind with these more exotic type pumpkins, the seeds are quite a bit different
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So here's an example of a very large pumpkin seed. This is out of one of, out of the big orange and green one
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And then there's some that are very tiny. So this is out of those little tiny white pumpkins
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It's very difficult to say like what variety these are or how many growing degree days
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these plants need. so because of that it's one of those things where you'd probably want to
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consider actually saving the seeds and then starting them indoors or putting
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them outside when the time is right some of these may have very long growing degree days something like 120 days which in my zone is a no-go however the
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benefit to this is that if I can get varieties of these to grow locally in my
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environment the seeds I save from those plants next year will be better
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engineered to my microclimate which means next year I'll get better and
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better pumpkins so this first year is just gonna be a trial run to see what
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works and what does it because I don know the varieties so how long you choose to let these actually sit out and dry on a paper towel is going to be completely up to you you can leave them sit for a week two weeks it not going
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to hurt anything when it comes to storage after uh preferably storage in some sort of paper you
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don't want to actually start back in this jar because the humidity may be too high which may
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cause them to either rot or sprout we want to try to keep our seeds as dry as possible so a paper
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envelope is always going to be the best it can be a diy envelope or something of that nature don't
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get me wrong but that is something that you want to consider so we've talked about saving the seeds
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how to dry them out the how that seed coating is actually seed coating it's not um the seed itself
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so we don't need to ferment or anything like that and then also how we have to take into consideration
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the potential that the growing degree days on these plants may be in excess of what your zone
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is meaning you may or may not get a yield you may just grow a giant pumpkin plant with nothing
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attached to it so these are all things to keep in mind when you're choosing to experiment now
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the literal halloween tale of this is that these have the potential to cause toxic squash syndrome
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so i'm going to put a big old disclaimer on here if your pumpkins are seeds you're saving from
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someone else's environment and don't know what was grown next to it or near it you do not if you
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save seeds for me you do not want to consume the pumpkin these are solely for decoration or for
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jack-o'-lantern type setups now if you're thinking like some of these I got from Home Depot not a
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food place so you have to keep that in mind too it makes me wonder like are they maybe not meant
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for human consumption is that why they're sold at Home Depot but then you'd think they'd have
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sign up anyways I digress what I will say is that if you're a brave soul and
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I a brave soul you can actually taste test these to ensure they don have toxic squash syndrome now toxic squash syndrome is a syndrome that essentially can cause hair loss massive stomach issues and
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ultimately could kill you if you eat too much of it now what I will say is you
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can take a bite or two and you'll be just fine the way to test this is
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actually to take a small sliver and just put on your tongue you don't even have
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actually chew it and what you're tasting for is a bitterness and it's going to be
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very obvious this actually almost tastes like cantaloupe it's a very sweet
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pumpkin that's a big green yellow one that's delicious anyways it tastes like
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cantaloupe don't ask me why um but this would be fun because it doesn't have that
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bitter taste so you can can taste test them if you're choosing to can them or
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do something of that nature so with that being said you don't want to talk to
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squash syndrome situation on Halloween night so just keep that in mind and that
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is something you have to keep in mind when you're saving your own squash seeds
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just in your own environment but that chemical is just found in certain squash
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and when that squash is truss or open pollinated with another squash that's
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very high in that chemical we end up with the toxic squash syndrome of the
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offspring not the actual plant itself so if you live in the city and you know
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people near you are growing squash this may be something you need to watch out for because it could happen um that a bumblebee comes over and mixes up the
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pollen so but with that being said I hope you guys have a safe and happy
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Halloween I gotta get to decorating outdoors for all the little kitties out
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there even though kids don't trick or treat anymore which is incredibly
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depressing ah but I go all out I go all out on Halloween but if you enjoyed the
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video be sure to give it a thumbs up hit that subscribe button and let me know in the comments down below if you've ever heard of toxic loss syndrome and I'll
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talk to you
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