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Old 16-08-2010, 09:19 PM posted to rec.gardens
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"Paul M. Cook" wrote in message
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There must be some trick to preparing seeds for storage. I wanted to
preserve some seeds from my Red Hmong cucumbers so I let one get really
ripe on the vine to the point it was starting to decompose a little. Then
I extracted the seeds, washed thoroughly and cleaned up as much of the
slippery pulp as I could. Then I set them on a tea towel to dry. They
dried up into little shriveled bits that bore almost no resemblance to a
seed at all. They sure do not look like they will be viable. Is there
something I am missing here?


were they fertilized seeds? Sounds like not.