How to harvest and dry pumpkin seeds?

How to harvest and dry pumpkin seeds? Please introduce the following methods of harvesting and drying pumpkin seeds for reference: 1. Harvested in batches and stacked in batches according to the maturity of melons. 2. Post-ripening. The post-ripening effect of pumpkin is very important to promote grain fullness and improve the yield and quality of white melon seeds. The mature melons were ripened for 10 / 15 days and tender melons for 20 / 30 days. 3. Open melon and float seeds. Open melon on the same day, pick seeds on the same day, clean on the same day, do not operate overnight, avoid retting board, yellow board, stacking time can not exceed 24 hours after opening melon seeds, stacking time is long, yellow board is more, affecting the quality of white melon seeds. 4. Washing with water. This method is simple, the seeds dry quickly, the purity is good, and the seeds are white. The method is to use a sink, put the seeds extracted from the melon into the sink, and use the hedgerow to fish out the seeds floating on the water. Melon flesh, melon shell, some blighted grains. Pumpkin seeds drying: ① wooden frame is 1.5 meters high, 15.2 meters wide and 20 meters long. It is horizontally covered with dried sunflower stalks or corn stalks, and nylon sieve is laid along the direction. The seeds are ventilated from the ground up and down, and the seeds dry quickly. ② put 1.5kg seeds per square meter and turn them once every 2 hours. After drying for 2 days, the seeds do not adhere to each other. Transfer to color stripe cloth and cotton cloth to dry, then pour down the shelf and dry the second batch. For the seeds dried by ③, a layer of soft skin on the surface of the seed coat falls off naturally, and when the moisture is reduced to 8-9%, it is ventilated, shrunken grains, impurities, bagged and stored. When the moisture content of ④ is more than 10%, the seeds are prone to mildew and even freeze plates. ⑤ is stacked for 3 days before bagging to prevent "false drying" seeds (external dry and internal temperature). Choose sunny days to dry again to ensure safe storage and bright white seeds. Click to get more pumpkin planting techniques click to get more vegetable planting techniques