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Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA

As I harvested and washed my seeds yesterday, I noticed that I had about 2/3 of the seeds rose to the top of the water and floated happily as I expected them to. The remaining 1/3 sunk to the bottom and stayed there.

This raises the question for me of whether their is a density characteristic packed into those sinkers that could produce a heavy pumpkin? Did those seeds crack and take in water making them sink? Curious enough to try again, I took some seeds from a Wyatt's Wonder that I had already harvested and dried. Again, most of the seeds floated, while some still sunk. I inspected the seeds and saw no apparent flaws.

Has anyone heard of anyone experiencing a correlation between Floater/Sinkers and fruit Density/Size?

10/27/2008 4:18:12 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Sinkers are mostly all good (more starchy carbohydrates). Floaters are usually good if they don't "bounce hollow" on a table. Very light floaters that "bounce hollow" usually are hollow & don't germinate.

10/27/2008 5:58:53 PM