Seed storage problems

equiqed · Mar 21, 2015

I've had some seeds for about a year and a half some not even a year and I was wondering if keeping them in a dark room temp and in a drawer closest to the floor and they're in breeders packs and then put in a tin or a little box. Should any germination rate go down ? only been a year and a half and they probably never seen past 75 degrees and 45% humidty in the drawer. I'm trying to put them in my fridge but the mason jar only goes down to 30% lowest and the whole jar is filled with rice. I know the ideal humidty is like 10% but is 30% that bad if the seeds are kept in breeders packs in a freezer bag. Silly questions I know but I'm sitting on some rare seeds and I dont want them to go bad.

equiqed · Mar 21, 2015

Bump. Come on guys help me out I'm stressing out. Will seeds go bad after a year In room temp

russjcan · Mar 21, 2015

your percentage of viable seeds will go down with age.

DoubleTripleOG · Mar 21, 2015

They will still germ fine. I keep seeds just like you do, and I popped some a few months back that had been sitting for a couple years.

sourpuss · Mar 21, 2015

I would put them in the fridge for the longest lasting seeds... cool dark place works too..... cooler the better like a fridge lol

Easy7 · Mar 21, 2015

Get dram viles, they make up to 4 dram vile. Put seeds in with rice and a piece of paper with the strain name. Place in fridge and enjoy for years.

equiqed · Mar 24, 2015

What's the best rice to use? Instant white rice?

hush · Mar 24, 2015

It doesn't matter. You can use any kind of rice, or dried grains, or legumes (I use dried lentils, actually), or even those silica gel packets that come in boxes of shoes. The whole point is to just suck up any trace amounts of humidity.

vostok · Mar 24, 2015

Fridge up to a year or freezer both in rice, as its water/moisture/humidity thats the real danger here

jump /injack · Mar 24, 2015

hush said:
It doesn't matter. You can use any kind of rice, or dried grains, or legumes (I use dried lentils, actually), or even those silica gel packets that come in boxes of shoes. The whole point is to just suck up any trace amounts of humidity.

Hush you've mentioned before that you have a vacuum sealer, do you ever use that with seeds.

Cannavore · Mar 24, 2015

sealed mason jar with dessicant packs and rice in the fridge. done and done. only time i get poor germ rates are when i pop seeds that were stored by someone else improperly.

hush · Mar 24, 2015

jump /injack said:
Hush you've mentioned before that you have a vacuum sealer, do you ever use that with seeds.

No, surprisingly. But only because I have never had a problem storing my seeds in a regular old tupperware container that I filled with lentils and put in the fridge. It's basically just a bucket of lentils with seed packs (and now pollen vials) shoved down into it, and put in the fridge.

I imagine vacuum sealing would only allow storage to continue onward indefinitely, if stored in refrigeration.

Granger2 · Mar 24, 2015

Must use organic brown rice. lol -granger

chuckyoufarley · Mar 24, 2015

i got seeds from 2006,-2009 i get great germ rates but i also keep them in a tupperware container in the crisper drawer in the fridge

Snook · Mar 24, 2015

jump /injack said:
Hush you've mentioned before that you have a vacuum sealer, do you ever use that with seeds.

I have vacuum sealed 7-8 strains in breeder packs. stored in a plastic gun attaché, 3-4 years.. could it be they had no air and dried out? I got zero germs.. since then, frig in a tin.. OTOH, I recently found some seeds from 2006/2007 (18 seeds) in a small test tube that was in the back of a plastic desk organizer, 7 opened, 4 actually germinated.. I like the dram container idea...

symbiote420 · Mar 24, 2015

I was just telling one of my peeps how I used to keep my bagseeds in plastic ziplock bags for 10+ yrs and still get good germ rates..... stored a few breeder packs recently the same way and had some of the poorest germ rates I ever got since 1st grade science class. I gave my mini fridge to my niece I used to keep my beans in, they've been in my cool MI basement this fall/winter because my kids go in the kitchen fridge too much to put em in there. Probably need to check Craigslist for another one before summer gets here but I wonder why these breeder packs are dudding out when those old bagseeds I kept didn't?

vostok · Mar 25, 2015

Breeder packs I thought were temp storage only ..? I prefer glass jars with a spoon of rice to adsorb moisture, kept in the freezer for years, does me!

equiqed · Mar 25, 2015

How Long were the breeders packs stored for symbiote.

equiqed · Mar 31, 2015

One more question guys, what's the optimal temp amd humidity? I hear mixed answers for this I hear temps right above freezing is best amd a humidity between 10-30%

vostok · Mar 31, 2015

Thats good , thats what I use ...local fridge and freezer setting....fridge at 3-5 C /35-39F
or if the freezer -5C/18F seems right, and humidity low as you can get it!

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