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Thinking of Selling the Seeds You Saved?

I started saving strawberry seeds years ago. After i figured out how to do that, I started thinking about selling them. The first task was to come up with a way to count them to package them. It took a while but I stumbled on measuring devices from a number manufacturers. I evaluated a couple of them and finally chose one from a manufacturer called Hornady. Pictured here is the unit purchased 15 years ago called a Hornady Lock and Load. Once calibrated for the seeds of a particular cultivar you can measure seeds accurately within 1 or 2 seeds each time and dispense them into packets quickly. Once I have the seed envelopes prepped the packets can be filled in seconds. Sure beats counting them by hand. I never tried to use it for other types of seed but it has potential!

u/GourmetStrawberries — 8 days ago

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Finally organized my seed binder and realized how much I've been hoarding

Spent most of Saturday going through every envelope, jar, and random baggie of seeds I've collected over the past four years. I knew it was a lot but seeing it all spread out on the kitchen table was kind of embarrassing. Three different years of the same dent corn variety, way too many brassica seeds from plants that probably crossed with my neighbor's broccoli, and at least six packets of marigolds I don't even remember saving.

The binder system I landed on uses baseball card sleeves with the seed packets slid inside, organized by plant family instead of alphabetically. Makes it so much easier to see at a glance what I've got too much of versus what's actually running low. Turns out I have zero winter squash saved despite swearing I'd save seed from that butternut everyone loved last year. Completely forgot until I was staring at an empty sleeve.

Also found a stash of lettuce seed from a variety I can't even identify anymore because the label rubbed off in storage. Going to grow those out next spring just to see what happens, treat it like a mystery packet. If it turns into something decent I'll actually label it properly this time and maybe offer some at the spring swap.

Anyone else do a full seed audit this time of year? I'm thinking I need to start dating everything with more than just the year, because "2023" doesn't tell me if that was spring or fall harvest and apparently that matters more than I realized for germination rates on some of these.

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u/dex_doodles89 — 9 days ago

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My small project ✨

I search for people who can Export seeds to me , I will plant it.

u/No-Top9040 — 10 days ago

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Threshing Strawberry Seeds

For many years I used the "wet" method of processing woodland and alpine strawberry seeds. It had several drawbacks so I experimented with drying the fruit. There was little information anywhere so I winged it. When I finally found a way to thresh the seeds (separate the seeds from the pulp) switched to the dry method for good. Here is a quick look at threshing. I cut off a 1 square foot piece of nylon window screen and poured dried fruit into it. Then, pull the corners of the screen and fold it into a ball. The "ball" is then rigorously rubbed against the dry fruit. If the fruit is dry it separates well. I'm planning a November substack on strawberry seed saving.

u/GourmetStrawberries — 13 days ago

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Seed identification help.

Good afternoon,

I'm sorting and labeling my seeds and came across this one, I can't remember where I picked it up or when but I'm in England if it helps. Any identification or ideas are welcome, thank you.

u/Nightlark_Lake — 10 days ago

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Low germination rate for strawflowers, how long do they last?

This spring I planted two whole packets of strawflower seeds that I purchased just a few weeks before. I got less than 20 seedlings from over 200 seeds. A few years before I must have planted over 400 strawflower seeds that were a few years old from the Dollar Tree and NONE of them germinated.

Does anyone know how long these seeds can be stored?

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u/Sundaymorning75 — 13 days ago

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Can’t get my cannabis seeds to germinate

I’m a first time grower and after my first harvest the rest seeds wont germinate, I’ve done the float tech method as i did with the first set that grew but no germination , I’ve also tried the paper towel method and direct to dirt but still didn’t get results, i got all seeds from same website.
my first grow was 5 seeds, I’ve tried germinating 12 seeds (different strains) with no result , what could i be doing wrong ,or the seeds are all duds???

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u/Whole_Kangaroo7823 — 14 days ago