Can you plant pumpkin seeds?

[BlackCat]

perfect timing for this thread I just planted some I had dried out a few days ago tonight... thinking perhaps I shouldnt have put more than one or two in though now lol!

[sconeonamission]

I did! Now I have a pumpkin vine growing! No pumpkins, but a plant that runs wild! Where we lived about 4 hrs ago, I grew more pumpkins than we could eat!!

And I'm a black thumb!

[Trillian]

you will find that growing pumpkins from a seed straight from a plant will give you a fabulous pumpkin vine, but no pumpkins as the seeds are sterile and are not meant to be bred from. It's to protect plant breeder rights otherwise you'd never have to buy a packet of seeds kwim?

[Indadhanu]

Yeah, what Trillian said.

And with lemons, they won't even grow! I tried to grow a lemon tree. No go on that one.

[Miss.September]

LOL, make sure you have lots of room....I can no longer get to my clothesline

[AnyDream]

Not necessarily true all the time, Trill. My compost-origin pumpkin vines have finally started getting their girl flowers on, I think I'm gonna be eatin punkins soon! Turns out the trick was using a fertiliser with a different NPK balance.

BUT if you want to be sure, you could try growing them from seeds from organic pumpkin, or you could send away for some heritage pumpkin seeds, there are all sorts of amazing pumpkins out there. Jap and butternut and qld blue are pretty boring really

[Mildez]

Ours have always grown from a shop brought pumpkin and produced an abundance of pumpkins!