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Old August 19, 2014   #29
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Yes, I'm saying that 50 year old seeds were viable. You can store a lot of seed inside a gourd, and they managed to sprout a few of those. The variety was considered extinct.

Cuarentena is from the marmande family, an early, cool tolerant, fairly commercial, productive variety. It was one of the early varieties grown before greenhouses came.
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