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25-05-2008, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick Maclaren

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Rusty Hinge 2 writes:
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| It might be added that some grain found in ancient Egyptian pyramids has
| been successfully germinated.
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| That's probably over 3,000 years old.

Do you have a reliable reference to that? It is a very long-standing
urban myth, but may well have some truth in it.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Kew have a formula to calculate how long a seed can be stored for and still germinate.

http://data.kew.org/sid/viability/index.html

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