While I'm sure this suggestion has been suggested, it's an idea none the less.

The basic idea is that when a player harvests their pumpkins there is a chance to get pumpkin seed, at a lower grade. It's basically a secondary way of getting seed to go along with egg hatch help as some players may not do egg hatches all the time.

The chance can be based on how many pumpkins are on the vine
4 pumpkins = very high chance at seed
1 pumpkin = very low chance

The number of seed you get could also possibly be chance based on # of pumpkins, but all seed would be based on the color of pumpkin you grow.

As far as grades are concerned, the grade of seed could be a % reduction, such as a grade 100 pumpkin has a 60% to 80% with seed which would give seed grades of 20 to 40.

I'd back this idea too. Especially at the high end it's not always possible to maintain a steady flow of hoards. I've stopped sending out all 12 pets, dropping it to 8 and only harvesting pumpkins every 24 hours because I run out of seeds so quickly. It's either grow food for hoarding or stop hoarding to get potions.

I support this! I'm also underneath the stress of having my pumpkin seed stock slowly disappear as time goes on, which is why I'm now taking a break to hatch some eggs I've kept to stop me from hoarding. The amount of pumpkin seeds you get in a day certainly doesn't support the players who have a lot of mouths to feed. I don't think I've had a surplus of food since just freshly moving out of the Starter's Hut.

I really like this suggestion! It's a great way to mitigate the supposed shortage of pumpkin seeds without messing with interaction mechanics, and it makes "real life" sense that some ripe pumpkins may yield viable seeds for planting.

I like the idea of this but just for pumpkins. Other plants, you may or may not be harvesting a fruit to begin with and it just turns into a mess.

I was thinking it would be nice if there was a way you could, like... smash pumpkins, for a chance at getting seeds!