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Old 23-03-2015, 08:22 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Bertie Doe Bertie Doe is offline
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Default Saving seeds - paper towelling?



"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ...

"Judith in England" wrote...

We had a very nice tomato from which I kept all the seeds.

After much rinsing I placed them between sheets of paper towelling. When
they were dry I tried to remove them but some (quite a few) have bits of
the paper stuck on.

I wonder if there are any chemicals on the paper that would affect them -
if so is there a better way?

(There were so many I easily can afford to throw away the papery ones but
it would be good to know.)


I've never had a problem using the paper towels to dry seeds, be they
Tomatoes or Epiphyllums.


I saved some chilli seeds over from 2014 but they failed to germinate.

Perhaps I should have waited for the chillies to dry, before removing seed?