30+ years old seeds. What would you do?

So at a buddies last nite watching the fight. He brings out this tin foil and unwraps it to show me some 30+ year old Maui Waui seeds. Said he's gonna give me half of them to play with.

What would you guys do with them?

Unless they were stored properly your chances of them breaking ground are minimal.

Fuck it give em a try. What's to lose?

I put all of my seeds in a weak bleach spray/water jar and shake, rinse, then soak till they crack. I put those cracked open into a small hole in the damp pro mix in a cup. I recommend you do the same with all of yours at once and flower them at 8 inches tall after each has a thriving clone in vegto sex. Keep your most vigorous male and every female. Put that newly sexed male back into the veg room and top it, 24 hours lights with a thriving copy.
allow each female to flower, in 3 gallon containers of pro mix fed organic fertilizer and water only under 1 k lights until ripe.
harvest them all and judge each in their respective notes. choose your bestest ones and flower the copy and clones of your favorites
at the same time and use a fan to pollinate your room full of favorite selections. have more better seed.
you can keep your copies and try again or cull them and work your own line now.

typical buddy seeds result in sexually confused plants so often, good luck

plant them

I planted some 9 yr old seed (refrigerated) a while back and got about 30% germ rate.

30 years in an uncontrolled environment... I would think the probability of success would be near zero.

If it's a strain worth pursuing I'd chuck them all in soil, but would not be disappointed if nothing happened.

Let us know if they do pop!

kkt3 said:

So at a buddies last nite watching the fight. He brings out this tin foil and unwraps it to show me some 30+ year old Maui Waui seeds. Said he's gonna give me half of them to play with.

What would you guys do with them?

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Try to germ them.
If they break, Badass, you got some killer
if not, whatever, lol

I've had 8-10 year old bagseeds that sat in the heat pop before.
Low ass success grant you but it's possible.

The University of Australia school of botany claims their experiments with fresh coconut water as a soaking medium when germinating any seed results in better everything: germination rate, growth, yield. Being as a fresh coconut is just a very large seed, it contains enough nutrients and moisture to sustain a baby palm tree until it is established.
Use a fresh coco, not from a can or a box. They are found easily at Hispanic and Asian grocers. The come husked and all you do is poke open the correct of the three 'eyes' and pour.

Hah. If you dont want em. Id take em. Cant hurt to see if they germinate.

there are kits available for germinating old seeds. It is based on tissue culture methods and the seed gets germinated in a special sugar solution.
The alternative is to soak in kelp or another source of gibberellic acid before germinating. The biggest obstacle is the deteriorated enzymes in the seed.

ANC said:

there are kits available for germinating old seeds. It is based on tissue culture methods and the seed gets germinated in a special sugar solution.
The alternative is to soak in kelp or another source of gibberellic acid before germinating. The biggest obstacle is the deteriorated enzymes in the seed.

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And being dry.....If they do pop. They will lack any serious vigor. Many that do pop, die out quick from lack of o2.

Add a few drops H2o2 to any "soak" you might try. Above all, don't "soak" longer then 8hrs. Directly into soil after that and water with some of that "soaking" solution.

I'll bet that they don't pop......Fun to try anyway.

I germed seeds that were 25+ years old. Stored in a paper envelope. Out of 20 started about 8 popped. I planted them and got 3 girls that produced some great smoke...

But you see the odds there? Less than 50 50.

Thanks for all the replies. I'm thinking of waiting until next years grow to give them a try. The only light I grow under is the sun!!

Giberillic acid will germ them no problem

mmajunkie100 said:

Giberillic acid will germ them no problem

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Mmmmm, tried ant seriously old seeds lately?

30 years, not stored properly? Good luck!

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Dr. Who said:

Mmmmm, tried ant seriously old seeds lately?

30 years, not stored properly? Good luck!

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they used gibberillic acid to germinate ancient seeds,it the only way I know how to germ old as fuck seeds but obviously if they are stored improperly then they are probably expired lol

kkt3 said:

So at a buddies last nite watching the fight. He brings out this tin foil and unwraps it to show me some 30+ year old Maui Waui seeds. Said he's gonna give me half of them to play with.

What would you guys do with them?

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15 Maui Waui seeds 30 ? years old stored in a tin foil in a drawer..?

given half to you to 'play' with

if you be the man 'Fuck Him' if thats the way you store your shit

as Who says avoid drowning them

Maui Waui was great in its day but hey 'we' got THC above 25% now

good luck

mmajunkie100 said:

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they used gibberillic acid to germinate ancient seeds,it the only way I know how to germ old as fuck seeds but obviously if they are stored improperly then they are probably expired lol

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yes, but theres more to it than a Gibberellic acid dunk

Probably using the oxygenated sugar solution you get in the kits or something similar.