Really old seed..14 yrs.

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Been reading a quite a bit on this and it seems there may be hope ?
Just for the heck of it I tried some 30 seed that are 14 yrs old, and surprise to me one has cracked. That tells me there is potential...right ?
I kind of had a hunch that there was some life left in those beans with my initial test, which was to squish one, I thought it was not "empty"...?

Please @912 Green Skell

(I read many of your threads before I joined)

Wondering what your thoughts were. ?

Thinking myself too.
 
PS. New here , can't figure albums, but should be able to add a pic. ... No Image needs to be stored on line ?

Haha...mispelt the tags, but i saw it anyways. :D

Hell yes, try them out....germ rates will be hit and miss with stock that old, but worth a try if its a strain you love!!
Mispelt, Too many spaces ? @GreenSkell

Thanks BTW
 
PS. New here , can't figure albums, but should be able to add a pic. ... No Image needs to be stored on line ?


Mispelt, Too many spaces ? @GreenSkell

Thanks BTW

I find the easiest way to get a pic online is to use the upload button underneath the reply box at the bottom of the thread. @912GreenSkell (no spaces and you forgot the 912 :D) Take it easy
 
Haha...mispelt the tags, but i saw it anyways. :D

Hell yes, try them out....germ rates will be hit and miss with stock that old, but worth a try if its a strain you love!!

OH yeah a strain I love, may even be auto, Don't know, never done indoor. I had some newer ones, but very few as I found out drying in a barn mice love to eat weed seed. So if I could get a couple of these going it would be great for a couple of reasons, the seed obviously, and also going back a few generations to boot.

"Update" Since I do think there is life hiding in there (as per the squish test) I did the scarification process, and put on about 100 more, in no time at all 90% of them sank. I don't know this either, but it is said that if a seed sinks there is germ potential ? we'll see. As always the proof is in the pudding.
 

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OH yeah a strain I love, may even be auto, Don't know, never done indoor. I had some newer ones, but very few as I found out drying in a barn mice love to eat weed seed. So if I could get a couple of these going it would be great for a couple of reasons, the seed obviously, and also going back a few generations to boot.

"Update" Since I do think there is life hiding in there (as per the squish test) I did the scarification process, and put on about 100 more, in no time at all 90% of them sank. I don't know this either, but it is said that if a seed sinks there is germ potential ? we'll see. As always the proof is in the pudding.

Yes i have read that about the sinking, but can speak from experience...i have never put a see in water...only paper towel and directly in moist dirt.
 
Yes i have read that about the sinking, but can speak from experience...i have never put a see in water...only paper towel and directly in moist dirt.
I hear you "never put seed in water" I'm usually a "direct sow" guy myself, it's just difficult times or difficult situations, call for for different actions. So trying what are "supposed" to be the "best" methods...?
Frankly my theory if it hasn,t got the strength to get above the ground itself, it is not worth the effort, or something like that.
 
OH yeah a strain I love, may even be auto, Don't know, never done indoor. I had some newer ones, but very few as I found out drying in a barn mice love to eat weed seed. So if I could get a couple of these going it would be great for a couple of reasons, the seed obviously, and also going back a few generations to boot.

"Update" Since I do think there is life hiding in there (as per the squish test) I did the scarification process, and put on about 100 more, in no time at all 90% of them sank. I don't know this either, but it is said that if a seed sinks there is germ potential ? we'll see. As always the proof is in the pudding.
Putting seeds in water tests the maturity of the seed. A seed that is fully formed and mature internally will have no internal space left. An immature or incomplete seed will have enough space inside for an air pocket. Thus the air pocket will keep an immature seed afloat.
 
I hear you "never put seed in water" I'm usually a "direct sow" guy myself, it's just difficult times or difficult situations, call for for different actions. So trying what are "supposed" to be the "best" methods...?
Frankly my theory if it hasn,t got the strength to get above the ground itself, it is not worth the effort, or something like that.

I have tremendous success sprouting with damp paper towel in a ziploc bag in 80-85degrees F....this season i went 100% with 18 different strains(27 plants total). I run them in paper towel for the same reason guys sprout them in water....so i know there is a plant living when it goes in the dirt. I plant when i see a tail 1/8"-1/4".
 
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