Saving Seed

danofarming · Dec 22, 2012

Any one have any advice or experience on saving seed ? I have some OP Corn that I want to keep. Put it it the freezer in a plastic Bag? Jar? I have it in paper now on my desk. Also I want to sow some spring oats along in march, anyone have a good source for OP seed?

oj · Dec 22, 2012

Seed needs to be cool and dry for storage... if the grain is dry then that"s a good start, we keep ours in a grain bin, as long as it doesn"t let water in it stores fine. If you want to store it in bags, burlap is probably the best as it allow the grain to breath, don"t use plastic.

uncle henry · Dec 22, 2012

i put my in a paper sack in the freezer

Leroy · Dec 22, 2012

Had just steel and wood drums that we kept bag seed in for years. Every year we would have a part of a bag of seed corn left and it would get stuck in the drum in the paper bag it came in. One year with all those big bags could not get anymore in so dumped each bag in a paper grocery bag and labled it as to kind and size. Had way more than we realized so when planting time came I decided to use it, a different size plate in each box because there was not enough of any one size for more than that. Some of it was over 10 years old and could tell no difference in growth from the new seed we had. And this was just stored in an old outbuilding. There may still be clover seed out there that is 25+ years old but if I was going to plant any as long as it was not moldy then I would use it, just plant heavier.

Leroy · Dec 22, 2012

Some seed companies what they would sell for the 2013 crop year actually was raised in the 2011 crop year and not the 2012 crop year.

thurlow · Dec 22, 2012

People been saving their own seed ever since they've been growing crops; until the last half of the last century (and part-way past that), we saved our corn, cotton, wheat and soybean seed. Just kept 'em dry and never had a problem.

JimB2 · Dec 22, 2012

Hi, a few years ago tried to store some sunflower heads hanging in my garage, well every rodent in the neighbourhood attempted to chew their way into my garage. Finally, shelled the seeds out of the heads and put them in an old cooler with a couple of
"do not eat" desiccant bags from hard drive packages. Apparently the local rodent population could no longer smell the seed and stopped attempting to get into my garage.

Good luck with your seed
JimB

JD Seller · Dec 22, 2012

You do not want to freeze your seed and you really do not want it in an plastic bag. It will mold in the air tight bag. You want a paper or burlap bag. Then store it in a cool dry place. It will keep for many years that way.

ldj · Dec 22, 2012

I read a few years they found some beans in a cave that were very old. I don't remember but several hundred years. How they know??? beats me but for what they get paid I can suppose they are right. Anyway they planted some of them and they grew.

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