Pumpkin Lifecycle Experiment

Is anyone else trying out the pumpkin lifecycle experiment?!? We are on day 9 now and it's decomposing super fast! This is such a wonderful experiment to actually be able to see the full lifecycle of a pumpkin and it's not even difficult to do.

What You'll Need:

  • A small pumpkin, carved but with the seeds kept inside and the top kept on.
  • Soil
  • A bucket/container with a lid

What To Do:

1. Fill your container with about 1/4 soil

2. Add your pumpkin and close the lid.

3. Wait! And watch the process of decomposition begin to take place after just a few days. 

Day 1

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Day 5

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Day 8.  It's decomposing super fast!

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Day 15.  It's getting smaller and smaller!

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 Day 46. It's turned almost liquid like, I ended up pouring so much of the liquid out...not sure that was right or wrong but we shall see

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Day 106. We have our first little seedling sprouting 

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Day 124. More seedlings. The last one that came I ended up killing by taking the lid of the bucket thinking that was what I should do but I was wrong so this time I'm leaving them alone !!

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Day 128 

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Day 147.  Now it's time to move it into another pot

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Day 170. We now have our first flowers beginning to form

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I seem to have stopped taking photos at this point but it grew several flowers. I tried transferring it outside but I didn't have space to put it into the ground and had to keep it in a pot and it never grew any pumpkins. I think that if I would have been able to have it growing directly into the earth that we would have had real success. I will have to try this again one day!