25 yr old seeds

myke

myke

Well-Known Member
Wife was cleaning out the fridge and in the back corner of the crisper she finds a baggy.Whats this she says,everytime I clean the fridge I take it out then put back in.Well lets have a look. Ha, heres two bags wrapped tightly into another.One labbled Green and the other Purple.Wow these are from a couple of grows I did around 1993 ~95 ish.IIRC There were a few hermmies in the batches so every crop there were seeds,must be 100 in ea bag.Wow does this bring back memories.So I threw some in a glass of water.Will see what happens I guess.Hope some of them are still good.
I used 4 of the Purple labbled ones,have no idea why the other bag is labbled Green.The purple ones are smaller seeds.
 
Mellow old School

Mellow old School

Well-Known Member
Nice, but either you have a giant fridge or it doesnt get cleaned that much8), shall be interesting to see if they germinate mate...
 
B

Beachwalker

Well-Known Member
myke said:
No idea,back in those days it was called red hair or ditch weed.
The difference IIRC is one bag says green7 so 7 leaves I assume.The other is purple so guessing 5 leaves with darker purple color.
I remember using Schultz plant food,little bottle with the eye dropper.Didnt even now what PH was back then.
Click to expand...
I'm using Schultz now, good luck with those seeds, following along! :leaf:
 
raggyb

raggyb

Well-Known Member
I tried the sandpaper on some stubborn seeds and it worked. Put it in my fingernail and gave it a slow rub on that black paper for metal. Then put it in weak superthrive. It worked! Don't know if it would have worked but wish I had tried that on my 30 year old seeds dangit. Just sayin.
 
myke

myke

Well-Known Member
raggyb said:
I tried the sandpaper on some stubborn seeds and it worked. Put it in my fingernail and gave it a slow rub on that black paper for metal. Then put it in weak superthrive. It worked! Don't know if it would have worked but wish I had tried that on my 30 year old seeds dangit. Just sayin.
Click to expand...
interesting, whats the purpose of the sandpaper?
 
raggyb

raggyb

Well-Known Member
Herb & Suds said:
Scuffing seed caps
I use a piece of sandpaper in a medicine bottle add seeds and shake , shake , shake
Click to expand...
I couldn't get the shake method to work. Don't know what I did wrong. Then I tried just like 2 or 3 slow scrapes against sandpaper with it under my fingernail. I could see a little trail of seed shell scraped onto the sandpaper so I knew I did something. Not sure if it's the best way but it did seem to work. I guess it makes it easier for water to permeate as well as for the weakling baby to "bust" out.
 
Flinttownbrown

Flinttownbrown

Active Member
Some of those seeds should pop a friend of mine gave me some unknown seeds he claims are from the 1970s and older guy and I've got that one going in my veg and another one if I can find the picture let me see have no idea what they are though
 

Attachments

You must log in or register to reply here.
Top