While cleaning in my basement this weekend (a traumatic thing to do cuz
I'm a packrat) I found a jar of okra seeds that I saved about 15 years
ago. Maybe 16 or 17 years, but less than 20. I started to throw them
out, but I was curious if they might still be viable. So I took about a
dozen seeds and soaked them overnight (didn't look promising, half of
them were still floating the next morning) and then wrapped them up in a
damp paper towel. When I peeked at them this morning, most of them were
already sprouted -- that's less than 48 hours.

They are telling me that I need to plant okra next year.

Bob

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zxcvbob wrote:

While cleaning in my basement this weekend (a traumatic thing to do cuz
I'm a packrat) I found a jar of okra seeds that I saved about 15 years
ago. Maybe 16 or 17 years, but less than 20. I started to throw them
out, but I was curious if they might still be viable. So I took about a
dozen seeds and soaked them overnight (didn't look promising, half of
them were still floating the next morning) and then wrapped them up in a
damp paper towel. When I peeked at them this morning, most of them were
already sprouted -- that's less than 48 hours.

They are telling me that I need to plant okra next year.

Bob

Cool beans... :-)

Speaking of which, you are aware that bean seeds found in archeological
digs 1,000 years old still sprout on occasion.......

A little water is always cheap to see if seeds are viable.

Well done!
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Peace!
Om

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch"
-- Jack Nicholson

zxcvbob wrote:
While cleaning in my basement this weekend (a traumatic thing to do cuz
I'm a packrat) I found a jar of okra seeds that I saved about 15 years
ago. Maybe 16 or 17 years, but less than 20. I started to throw them
out, but I was curious if they might still be viable. So I took about a
dozen seeds and soaked them overnight (didn't look promising, half of
them were still floating the next morning) and then wrapped them up in a
damp paper towel. When I peeked at them this morning, most of them were
already sprouted -- that's less than 48 hours.

They are telling me that I need to plant okra next year.

Bob

Not really Bob. We have three okra plants that are really producing and
I've already frozen a years supply. Swing by on your next trip home and
I'll load you up. VBG

George

Just started some seeds in the ground for a fall crop, came up in three
days.

Now, how to pickle them.

George Shirley wrote:
zxcvbob wrote:
While cleaning in my basement this weekend (a traumatic thing to do cuz
I'm a packrat) I found a jar of okra seeds that I saved about 15 years
ago. Maybe 16 or 17 years, but less than 20. I started to throw them
out, but I was curious if they might still be viable. So I took about a
dozen seeds and soaked them overnight (didn't look promising, half of
them were still floating the next morning) and then wrapped them up in a
damp paper towel. When I peeked at them this morning, most of them were
already sprouted -- that's less than 48 hours.

They are telling me that I need to plant okra next year.

Bob

Not really Bob. We have three okra plants that are really producing and
I've already frozen a years supply. Swing by on your next trip home and
I'll load you up. VBG

George

Go online for some good okra pickle recipes. Personally I wouldn't touch
an okra pickle with someone else's fork. Never did like them any way but
in a gumbo or fried.

George

Sammy Shuford wrote:
Just started some seeds in the ground for a fall crop, came up in three
days.

Now, how to pickle them.

George Shirley wrote:

zxcvbob wrote:

While cleaning in my basement this weekend (a traumatic thing to do cuz
I'm a packrat) I found a jar of okra seeds that I saved about 15 years
ago. Maybe 16 or 17 years, but less than 20. I started to throw them
out, but I was curious if they might still be viable. So I took about a
dozen seeds and soaked them overnight (didn't look promising, half of
them were still floating the next morning) and then wrapped them up in a
damp paper towel. When I peeked at them this morning, most of them were
already sprouted -- that's less than 48 hours.

They are telling me that I need to plant okra next year.

Bob

Not really Bob. We have three okra plants that are really producing and
I've already frozen a years supply. Swing by on your next trip home and
I'll load you up. VBG

George

I di love them fried, but time to fry them and work!


George Shirley wrote:
Go online for some good okra pickle recipes. Personally I wouldn't touch
an okra pickle with someone else's fork. Never did like them any way but
in a gumbo or fried.

George

Sammy Shuford wrote:
Just started some seeds in the ground for a fall crop, came up in three
days.

Now, how to pickle them.

George Shirley wrote:

zxcvbob wrote:

While cleaning in my basement this weekend (a traumatic thing to do cuz
I'm a packrat) I found a jar of okra seeds that I saved about 15 years
ago. Maybe 16 or 17 years, but less than 20. I started to throw them
out, but I was curious if they might still be viable. So I took about a
dozen seeds and soaked them overnight (didn't look promising, half of
them were still floating the next morning) and then wrapped them up in a
damp paper towel. When I peeked at them this morning, most of them were
already sprouted -- that's less than 48 hours.

They are telling me that I need to plant okra next year.

Bob

Not really Bob. We have three okra plants that are really producing and
I've already frozen a years supply. Swing by on your next trip home and
I'll load you up. VBG

George

I started to bandy them out, but I was analytical if they ability still be viable. So I took about a dozen seeds and blood-soaked them brief (didn't attending promising, bisected of them were still amphibian the next morning) and again captivated them up in a damp cardboard towel. When I peeked at them this morning, a lot of of them were already sprouted -- that's beneath than 48 hours.

Go online for some acceptable okra bind recipes. Personally I wouldn't touch an okra bind with anyone else's fork. Never did like them any way but in a borsch or fried.