Can You Vacuum Seal Garden Seeds? Does vacuum sealing garden seeds Extend The Life Of Your Seeds? | Gardening In Canada
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You Would Want To Grab These Items If You Wanted To Vacuum Seal:
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Oxygen Absorber – https://geni.us/9PCnAT
Keep in mind it is nearly impossible for me to say with any certainty how many you would need per packet… that is really going to come down to how dry the seeds are, how many seeds etc. I am 99.9% positive people in the comments section have done this and have a few ideas on how they navigate this.
Who initiated the storage vault and who thought it was wise to do so and why?
New sub from CP, loving your videos so far. Great content for dealing with Canada's harsh conditions!
Would be awesome to find a list of seed viability durations
Am I going crazy or is there background noise? Great video though 😎
Yup I drie them maturely and put them in a paper envelope in a dark file ..works for me .
I always love well designed studies, thanks for sharing! I’ve never vacuum sealed, but I hope more studies show the ideal methods for long seed storage.
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I love your apron!! So neat to hear this about the vacuum sealers/mylar bags. I wasn't sure about that. I typically just keep mine in the basement in envelopes, but this year I got a pack of seeds from a grower in a mylar bag, so it got me thinking about whether I should do this. I think for now I'll carry on (our humidity is so low in Alberta anyway), but eventually I might give it a shot.
Can you comment on using BOTH a desiccant and an oxygen absorber?
I ask because a food dehydration channel mentioned that you can use one or the other when storing dehydrated foods in containers. I’m sure I’m missing some point. Digging your channel, by the way!
I find myself wondering about when archeologists find ancient seeds in a clay pot or something similar, in the desert and are able to germinate them. Some of these seeds were preserved accidentally, while others were stored as grave goods. I can see lack of humidity being a factor, and sometimes you could assume a lack of oxygen, but they would still be exposed to high temperatures, simply because of their geographical location. It's remarkable that any could be germinated after thousands of years.
This made me think of the 850 year old Gete Okosomin Squash Seeds stored in a clay pot.
I put mine in a jar (in the paper envelopes they come in) in the refrigerator in the lowest level at the back (hoping to reduce temperature changes from opening the door all the time). No oxygen absorbers or desiccants. I guess I'll see what happens next summer when I take some of them out. I have no cold storage and I live in a studio which is basically one large room so it gets very warm and hot in here. I did not have another way to keep them cool. I hope they survive because there are Heirloom seeds and very difficult to find smoking tobacco seeds
This is a fabulous video, thank you so much. I have seeds in my barn, in Colorado Autumns & Winters…very dry and very cold. My seeds germinate beautifully on a heat mat in cell-packs. Different solutions for people all over the world, and with the Grace of God, we GROW!
What about freeze drying and vacuum sealing?
Seed saving . . . more complicated than I thought. (heavy sigh) Makes me wonder how seeds survive in nature from year to year. Do some of them not simply fall to the ground and then start growing come springtime? Why is it so complicated for us? (Rhetorical question. I don't really expect anyone to know.) But I must say, I'm a bit discouraged at this point. Perhaps I'll simply do as you are doing and put them in a cardboard box and into a cold place. And hope for the best. Thanks for the video. It is most appreciated.
I have vacuumed sealed seeds and it's worked very well
Great video. Thanks for sharing your learning here. 🙂
Great info.
Very interesting information. Thank you! I hope I haven’t done too much harm….This is the first year I stored seeds in the freezer. Usually mine are in a box in the basement too. I’m very curious to see now if the seeds germinate any differently after being in the freezer for 8 months. I didn’t use an O2 or desiccant 😢
Thank you, love the video.❤ Your Hubby 🤣I have really high humidity here and was hoping for some options
Really enjoyed your talk about seeds. Thanks!
I have a large collection of seeds, they are frozen in glass, plastic jars and mylar. I mark the packets with prominent expiry dates (seeds have 1 to 10 years depending on type of plant). I find most seeds last way longer than expected. I always make sure they come to room temp before I open the container so there isn't an issue with them getting moist and dampened then.
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. I am sure you saved a lot of us beginner gardeners from thinking we had made mistakes in our garden when nothing grew, when in actuality it was how we stored our seeds.
I’m wondering why you would need an oxygen absorber, when the seeds have been vacuum sealed and are in an oxygen free environment.
Now I've watched this… opening my seeds and adding required moisture and air suckeruperers… 😂
Just the other day I was thinking "I wonder if the seeds would last longer if they were stored under nitrogen instead of oxygen" I know that's not what this is about I have never vacuum sealed any might be worth a try.