On sale there is a great variety of seeds, but they do not always please us with the percentage of germination and the quality of the crop. It is safer to independently prepare zucchini seeds and store them until next year.
How to harvest the seeds of courgettes with their own hands?
First of all, you need to determine the seed squash and promote their proper development. Plants, from which it is planned to harvest seeds, should grow about 4 months. To do this, leave 3-5 bushes, which during the bud formation phase, you need to prick the main stem. They need to halve nitrogenous fertilizing.
Since the formation of the ovary, it takes 2 months for the seed fruits to fully form and reach the required degree of maturity. You need to choose well-developed, most appropriate for the external characteristics of its variety fruits. Use no more than 2 squash from one bush.
When to shoot zucchini on seeds?
Collect the seed fruits from dry plants. For more confidence, you need to hold a fingernail over his skin - if there is not a trace left from him, then the skin is hardened enough, and the fruit can be removed. The color of the courgette should be orange or yellow.
After removal, the courgettes are left for ripening for another 15-20 days in a dry room with good ventilation. Seeds from unreserved fruits will give bad seedlings, so it is not worth hurrying to collect.
How to remove seeds from zucchini?
It is necessary to comply with all recommendations on how to harvest zucchini seeds at home, so that the inoculum is quality.
Zucchini should be cut in half and carefully hand out the seeds. Usually from 1 fruit, you can get 20 to 40 seeds. You do not need to wash the seeds, immediately put them on paper, glass or ceramics and dry them under the open sky (in good weather), but without the sun.
Dried fully seeds are stored in tissue bags, glass jars or paper kulechkah at low temperature. With proper collection and storage, they can successfully lie down for several years.