The Best Way to Preserve Pumpkins by Wet And Forget

halloween is quickly approaching and the kids are always anxious to head out to the local pumpkin patch and pick out their favorite pumpkins but we always question how far in advance do we carve those pumpkins so they aren't plagued with mold and mildew for Halloween night so we thought we would do a test on several different options for preserving your pumpkins this year the first option is silica gel you know those packets that you find in your shoes and in your purses when you first purchased them then the wet and forget the ultimate mold mildew and algae remover Vaseline clear coat paint and last but not least so off to the pumpkin patch we went to find our test pumpkins we looked for pumpkins with similar shape and size when carving the pumpkins we made sure to clean them out entirely leading less of a breeding ground for mold spores first we opened two silica gel packets and put them in our first test pumpkin then we did a thick layer of Vaseline on pumpkin number two on the inside of the lid inside of the pumpkin and on all the cut-outs then we moved on to the clear coat paint again treating the inside the pumpkin cut-outs and the lid our next application was the Wet And Forget pumpkin we mixed five parts water with one part Wet And Forget and made sure to soak our pumpkin thoroughly and finally our bleached method we mixed one gallon of water with 1 tablespoon of bleach and soaked our pumpkin for several hours this option also suggested keeping a spray bottle mixture and treating every two to three days we also decided to try to say maintenance program with the Wet And Forget so we just used our Wet And Forget Indoor product we also had a control pumpkin off to the side so we could get an idea how fast an untreated pumping would turn black than we sat all our pumpkins together and set up a time lapse camera to take pictures every couple hours by day ten we had only one pumpkin left that didn't show any signs of mold or mildew so in order from worst to best these are the applications silica gel Vaseline clear coat paint Bleach and wet and forget the Wet And Forget technique was by far the best method for preserving pumpkins what we found interesting was after each application of the Wet And Forget Indoor our pumpkin became even whiter on the inside based upon our test you can get at least another two weeks enjoyment out of those jack o lanterns if they're treated with wet and forget and then maintained every two to three days with Wet And Forget Indoor click here to watch our how-to video on drilling pumpkins