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preserve pumpkins
November 11, 2014
Home Décor

See the Best Pumpkin Preservation Trick

You spend all that time and effort making your jack o’lantern look just the way you want it, only to have poor Jack turn into a mildewy mess before Halloween even gets here. Don’t let your pumpkin carving skills go to waste. Try pumpkin preservation!

We tested 5 different methods for preserving jack o’lanterns. There was a clear winner among the 5 methods. Read on to see the time-lapse video of our results, and score a chance to win a free Wet & Forget Outdoor bottle!

Not all Pumpkin Preservation Methods are Equal

We heard about a lot of different methods for preserving pumpkins. We thought we’d give a few of them a shot! Here are the ones we chose to use:

  1. Pouring silica gel inside the jack o’lantern.
  2. Rubbing the exposed insides of the jack o’lantern with petroleum jelly.
  3. Sealing the exposed insides of the jack o’lantern with clear-coat spray paint.
  4. Soak the jack o’lantern in a diluted bleach solution for several hours. After spray the insides with a bleach solution every few days.
  5. Soaking the jack o’lantern in a diluted solution of Wet & Forget Outdoor, and then Spraying it every few days with Wet & Forget Indoor Mold + Mildew Disinfectant Cleaner.

Mold and mildew growth is the cause of your jack-o-lantern’s early demise. Try all of these methods to short-circuit the growth in some way.

Silica gel is meant to keep the jack o’lantern too dry for mold growth, clear-coat paint and petroleum jelly try to form a barrier and keep mold from reaching the pumpkin’s surface, and the bleach and Wet & Forget methods are designed to kill mold and mildew.

Have a happy, happy Halloween!

Did your pumpkin start to rot a few days after carving last year? Learn how to preserve your pumpkin to make it last for 2 weeks or more!

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