Storms and chickens

[Lewis]

Last year I grew pumpkins and i kept the seeds from the biggest pumpkin.

Does anybody know if they will grow or if i will be better buying new seeds

 

Thanks

[Couperwife]

I think they should grow

 

we have a greenhouse, and any tomates that fall on the floow somehow manage to grow without any aditional help

 

maybe we should clean the greenhouse properly

 

cathy

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[Tara.F]

pumpkins, along with all other members of the curcubit family, cross very easily so yes, they will grow but they might not 'grow true' which means you might not get lovely pumpkins like last year....you could get some weird, funny looking, tasteless thing instead

 

If you have the room, it would be fun to try...just to see but if you really want quality pumkins, buy some seed as well.

 

tomatoes don't cross easily and so come up year after year

[Lewis]

Thanks

I'll give them a go!

[chickencam]

I have grown my big halloween pumpkins from saved seed for the last couple of years without any problems but I buy seed for pumkins for storage and winter eating.

[Eyren]

There's also the issue of the type of seed. Anything with "F1" in the variety name definitely won't breed true because it's a first generation cross between two different varieties. Even if that's the only variety you grow and the plants pollinate one another (or themselves), you'll get some seeds that produce plants similar to the parent, but many will be "throwbacks" to characteristics of the two grandparent varieties, in random combinations. You would have to grow quite a few plants to get a good one, and you wouldn't find out until you had a crop