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Viable Seed Age
Pepper seeds in particular. I harvest my own seeds from grocery store peppers and the ones I grow. Are the seeds from 2011 still going to be viable in January when I start my plants? I will have some from this years crop but I think I may have waited too long and will not have all the varieties.
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" wrote: Pepper seeds in particular. I harvest my own seeds from grocery store peppers and the ones I grow. Are the seeds from 2011 still going to be viable in January when I start my plants? I will have some from this years crop but I think I may have waited too long and will not have all the varieties. Thanks MJ Depends on how they are stored - and the only real way to know is to try them. If you have excess seed from the 2011 batch you could run a germination test - if not, either buy seeds or just give them a try when the time comes. Tomato seeds have very long viability - I've gotten 90% out of 10 year old packets stored less than ideally. I dislike peppers of all sorts, so I don't grow them, so I have no idea how long their seeds might last. -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by Please don't feed the trolls. Killfile and ignore them so they will go away. |
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On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:15:38 AM UTC-4, Ecnerwal wrote:
In article , " wrote: Pepper seeds in particular. I harvest my own seeds from grocery store peppers and the ones I grow. Are the seeds from 2011 still going to be viable in January when I start my plants? I will have some from this years crop but I think I may have waited too long and will not have all the varieties. Thanks MJ Depends on how they are stored - and the only real way to know is to try them. If you have excess seed from the 2011 batch you could run a germination test - if not, either buy seeds or just give them a try when the time comes. Tomato seeds have very long viability - I've gotten 90% out of 10 year old packets stored less than ideally. I dislike peppers of all sorts, so I don't grow them, so I have no idea how long their seeds might last. -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by Please don't feed the trolls. Killfile and ignore them so they will go away. I store all my seeds (after drying) in plastic vials with lids on a dark shelf. Think medicine bottles. MJ |
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Viable Seed Age
On 9/11/2013 9:00 AM, wrote:
Pepper seeds in particular. I harvest my own seeds from grocery store peppers and the ones I grow. Are the seeds from 2011 still going to be viable in January when I start my plants? I will have some from this years crop but I think I may have waited too long and will not have all the varieties. Thanks MJ Easy to google up a lot of this stuff: http://awaytogarden.com/estimating-v...-do-seeds-last |
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On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 10:17:16 AM UTC-4, Frank wrote:
On 9/11/2013 9:00 AM, wrote: Pepper seeds in particular. I harvest my own seeds from grocery store peppers and the ones I grow. Are the seeds from 2011 still going to be viable in January when I start my plants? I will have some from this years crop but I think I may have waited too long and will not have all the varieties. Thanks MJ Easy to google up a lot of this stuff: http://awaytogarden.com/estimating-v...-do-seeds-last Thanks for the link but I would rather learn from folks that have had experience of their own. I am also not using "commercial" seeds. MJ |
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On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 6:50:04 PM UTC-4, David Hare-Scott wrote:
wrote: Pepper seeds in particular. I harvest my own seeds from grocery store peppers and the ones I grow. Are the seeds from 2011 still going to be viable in January when I start my plants? I will have some from this years crop but I think I may have waited too long and will not have all the varieties. Thanks MJ You can find tables of expected viability by specie on the web. This is probably a maximum and doesn't take into account if all the seeds were ripe when you picked them or if your storage conditions were appropriate. Also the expected lifetime is not a sudden end, the proportion of germination will decline with age progressively. If you have a hundred seeds you have a better chance of getting 5 to grow after 3 years than if you have only have ten. In any event there isn't much you can do about it now. As for this year's crop, in what way are you too late? Even a stunted late season fruit on a dying frost-struck plant that you wouldn't eat may yield viable seeds provided it reached maturity. David Too late in that I wasn't paying close enough attention and that I think some of the plants I need seeds from are all done producing. MJ |
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