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Friday, December 9, 2016

My attempt growing pumpkin from seeds in the bought pumpkin

I get the seeds from inside of pumpkin that I bought for cook. Then put the seeds directly on fertilized soil last 7 November 2016 and water it consistently everyday.
From what I read, it took 5 to 10 days to grow leaves [1].
On 15 Nov 16. Leaves sprouting after 8 days I put the seeds directly on soil 

By 16 Nov 16. After 9 days
Can see a huge difference of the leaves growth between 15 Nov 16 and 16 Nov 16. It is only 1 day difference.


Picture taken on 30 Nov 16. Close up after replant on permanent location

Picture taken on 1 Dec 16. After several days moving the pumpkin on permanent location
Nutrition from 245 gm pumpkin [3] would have few vitamins such as:
- folate 6%,
- Vitamin A 245%
- Vitamin C 19%
- and etc
Nutrition from 245 gm pumpkin [3] would have few minerals such as:
- calcium 4%
- iron 8%
- magnesium 6%
- manganese 11%

Well the nutrition contains in the pumpkin is more that enough for me to have in daily basis.

This is actually for fun experiment that I do. Rather than I just throw away the seeds after cooking, I decided to recycle to try to grow new pumpkin tree. 
It is really nice to see my attempt succeed. And I might get to harvest pumpkin from this plant. Where it would take 95 to 120 days for the pumpkin to be ready after sowing [2].

References:
[1] http://www.almanac.com/plant/pumpkins
[2] http://www.harvesttotable.com/2009/03/how_to_grow_pumpkin/
[3] http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2601/2
[4] My first pumpkin http://serinurulbeauty.blogspot.my/2017/03/my-first-pumpkin-harvest-it-is-sweet.html
[5] The look of my pumpkin flowers http://serinurulbeauty.blogspot.my/2017/02/update-1-on-my-pumpkins-growth.html

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