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Comment on If you wish to color/decorate your pumpkin with the intention of eating the seeds, would it be a good idea to cover the pumpkin with felt instead of painting it?

Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Does paint seep that deep into a pumpkin? Is one paint better at not doing that over another?

Also if you wanna do the felt option instead, just go for it. Who says you gotta conform to what other decorators do?

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LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Felt will make the pumpkin turn faster, since they don’t like clothes.

For real, though, plants need to breathe, and they breathe through their skin – if you block their pores with glue and fabric, they’ll go off faster.

Paints aren’t as bad, though they’ll also block their ability to exchange the gasses (ethylenes) that need to escape. If ethylenes are trapped, the veg will turn much faster. This is why you can buy ethylene exchanging bags and containers to keep your produce fresh longer.

The only way to keep seeds and pulps from turning is to gut the pumpkin before decorating it.

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