Posted by Paul M. Cook on August 16, 2010, 3:01 pm
There must be some trick to preparing seeds for storage. I wanted to
preserve some seeds from my Red Hmong cucumbers so I let one get really ripe
on the vine to the point it was starting to decompose a little. Then I
extracted the seeds, washed thoroughly and cleaned up as much of the
slippery pulp as I could. Then I set them on a tea towel to dry. They
dried up into little shriveled bits that bore almost no resemblance to a
seed at all. They sure do not look like they will be viable. Is there
something I am missing here?
Posted by Bill who putters on August 16, 2010, 3:22 pm
> There must be some trick to preparing seeds for storage. I wanted to
> preserve some seeds from my Red Hmong cucumbers so I let one get really ripe
> on the vine to the point it was starting to decompose a little. Then I
> extracted the seeds, washed thoroughly and cleaned up as much of the
> slippery pulp as I could. Then I set them on a tea towel to dry. They
> dried up into little shriveled bits that bore almost no resemblance to a
> seed at all. They sure do not look like they will be viable. Is there
> something I am missing here?
Sometimes you need a book.
" Seed to Seed " By Suzanne Ashworth
Sometimes you need Charlie or Billy to weigh in.
I like "Plants-a- plenty" but I'm bookish.
So bottom line I'd try to sprout 10 seeds.
--
Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
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Posted by Billy on August 16, 2010, 4:43 pm
>
> > There must be some trick to preparing seeds for storage. I wanted to
> > preserve some seeds from my Red Hmong cucumbers so I let one get really
> > ripe
> > on the vine to the point it was starting to decompose a little. Then I
> > extracted the seeds, washed thoroughly and cleaned up as much of the
> > slippery pulp as I could. Then I set them on a tea towel to dry. They
> > dried up into little shriveled bits that bore almost no resemblance to a
> > seed at all. They sure do not look like they will be viable. Is there
> > something I am missing here?
>
> Sometimes you need a book.
>
> " Seed to Seed " By Suzanne Ashworth
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable
Gardeners,
by Suzanne Ashworth and Kent Whealy
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2424581/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid38951517&sr=1-1>
Available at a library near you.
>
>
> I like "Plants-a- plenty" but I'm bookish.
Plants-a-Plenty: How to Multiply Outdoor and Indoor Plants Through
Cuttings, Crown and Root Divisions, Grafting, Layering, and Seeds by
Catharine Osgood Foster (Hardcover - Jul 21, 1977)
1 new from $93.58 35 used from $0.01 $3.99 shipping
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8571566/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid81991011&sr=1-1>
Not available at my library :o(
>
> So bottom line I'd try to sprout 10 seeds.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/2010/07/201072816515308172.html
Posted by Wallace on August 16, 2010, 4:19 pm
> There must be some trick to preparing seeds for storage. I wanted to
> preserve some seeds from my Red Hmong cucumbers so I let one get really
> ripe on the vine to the point it was starting to decompose a little. Then
> I extracted the seeds, washed thoroughly and cleaned up as much of the
> slippery pulp as I could. Then I set them on a tea towel to dry. They
> dried up into little shriveled bits that bore almost no resemblance to a
> seed at all. They sure do not look like they will be viable. Is there
> something I am missing here?
were they fertilized seeds? Sounds like not.
Posted by brooklyn1 on August 16, 2010, 5:52 pm
wrote:
>There must be some trick to preparing seeds for storage. I wanted to
>preserve some seeds from my Red Hmong cucumbers so I let one get really ripe
>on the vine to the point it was starting to decompose a little. Then I
>extracted the seeds, washed thoroughly and cleaned up as much of the
>slippery pulp as I could. Then I set them on a tea towel to dry. They
>dried up into little shriveled bits that bore almost no resemblance to a
>seed at all. They sure do not look like they will be viable. Is there
>something I am missing here?
I don't suggest saving seed from home grown vegetables
except as a for-fun experiment. Years ago I've done it but only in a
very few instances and by pure luck did my saved seed replicate. One
thing I learned is not to use saved seed except in a totally separate
garden.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/vegetables/seed.html
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> preserve some seeds from my Red Hmong cucumbers so I let one get really ripe
> on the vine to the point it was starting to decompose a little. Then I
> extracted the seeds, washed thoroughly and cleaned up as much of the
> slippery pulp as I could. Then I set them on a tea towel to dry. They
> dried up into little shriveled bits that bore almost no resemblance to a
> seed at all. They sure do not look like they will be viable. Is there
> something I am missing here?