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    Processing: Fig. 16. Mature Luffa Gourd Fruits

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    To process wet seeds like cucumber, scrape the seeds and jelly-like liquid from cut fruit into a container. Let sit for 1-2 days, stirring daily, so that fungus forms on top while good seeds sink and debris floats. Then spread the seeds on a towel to dry. For dry seeds like luffa, leave in fruit until seeds naturally detach when shaken; cut off bottom and shake out seeds, then winnow and dry them on a screen before storing.

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    To process wet seeds like cucumber, scrape the seeds and jelly-like liquid from cut fruit into a container. Let sit for 1-2 days, stirring daily, so that fungus forms on top while good seeds sink and debris floats. Then spread the seeds on a towel to dry. For dry seeds like luffa, leave in fruit until seeds naturally detach when shaken; cut off bottom and shake out seeds, then winnow and dry them on a screen before storing.

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    To process wet seeds like cucumber, scrape the seeds and jelly-like liquid from cut fruit into a container. Let sit for 1-2 days, stirring daily, so that fungus forms on top while good seeds sink and debris floats. Then spread the seeds on a towel to dry. For dry seeds like luffa, leave in fruit until seeds naturally detach when shaken; cut off bottom and shake out seeds, then winnow and dry them on a screen before storing.

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    Processing: Fig. 16. Mature Luffa Gourd Fruits

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    To process wet seeds like cucumber, scrape the seeds and jelly-like liquid from cut fruit into a container. Let sit for 1-2 days, stirring daily, so that fungus forms on top while good seeds sink and debris floats. Then spread the seeds on a towel to dry. For dry seeds like luffa, leave in fruit until seeds naturally detach when shaken; cut off bottom and shake out seeds, then winnow and dry them on a screen before storing.

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    For ‘wet seeds’ such as cucumber, wax


    gourd, bitter gourd and melons, cut the fruit
    lengthwise and scrape seeds out with a
    spoon (Fig. 18). Allow seeds and the jelly-
    like surrounding liquid to sit in a container
    at room temperature for 1–2 days (Fig. 19).
    Fungus may start to form on top. Stir daily.
    The jelly will dissolve and good seeds will
    sink to bottom while remaining debris and
    immature seeds can be rinsed away. Spread
    Fig. 16. Mature luffa gourd fruits seeds on a paper towel or screen until dry.

    brownish color (Fig. 17). Bitter gourd fruits For ‘dry seeds’ such as luffa and bottle
    will turn orange. Some wax gourds will be gourd, keep the seeds in the fruit until they
    covered with a pale-white powdery wax on naturally separate from the flesh. This can
    the surface of the fruit. After harvest, the be identified when you shake the fruit, the
    fruits can be kept in a shed for a couple of sound of seeds moving inside is heard. Cut
    weeks to allow the seed to further ripen. off the bottom of the fruit and shake the
    seeds out, winnow to clean the remaining
    chaff, then place the seed on a screen for
    further drying before storage.

    Figs. 17–19. Wet seed extraction: mature cucumber (left), seed extraction (center), and ferment-
    ing seed (right)

    10 | Saving Your Own Vegetable Seeds

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