Poll: How do you store your seeds (please vote and comment)

[zif]

In the fridge in coffee vacs (I have a few of them). Inside that are packs of silica and the seeds themselves in the packaging they came in. Seeds I made are usually in empty spice jars or baggies with silica packets.

Are those of you who store in the freezer doing so in a frost-free freezer?

Temperature swings in even a normal fridge can be pretty wild, especially if the fridge is used for more than seeds. The coffee vac is a great idea to slow / even out those swings! A spare thermos would be good, too.

I've used multiple layers of container, kind of a poor man's insulated flask, to do the same.

If a freezer had a defrost cycle, the same approach would probably be very helpful.

 

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[Douglas.Curtis]

I store my frozen seeds within sealed containers, and ideally within an insulated cooler as well. Frozen pollen goes inside packets, then multiple bags with dried rice, then inside thermos bottles.

 

[revegeta666]

I will be the weird guy who doesn't use the fridge or freezer haha. Because of my job, my office at home has the AC at 23ºC and a dehumidifier at 60% (great room to dry plants as well), all year long. So I keep my seeds in rice filled mason jars, and these are stored in an airtight military ammo crate. I have great germ rates and this is why I never used the fridge like my firends do.

It makes me think that the room being at constant temperature and humidity does help a lot to keep the seeds viable. Maybe the fridge and freezer are great because of the constant temperature as well, and not so much because of the cold? What do you think about this?

 

[Mitsuharu]

@revegeta666
Maybe it's just because you are a super sayajin!?

I would say it's more the constant temp. At least for me 23* C is not "cold".

 

[revegeta666]

@revegeta666
Maybe it's just because you are a super sayajin!?

I would say it's more the constant temp. At least for me 23* C is not "cold".

Sorry, I meant if you think the constant temperature of the fridge has more of a preserving effect than the temperature itself being low (in the fridge) haha

 

[LostTribe]

I had been using the fridge for the most part. I have pollen in a freezer. I am considering some in the freezer just in case.

 

[Samedi]

I have a chest freezer I use. All my seeds are vacuum-sealed with color-changing desiccant beads and then placed in another airtight container (half gallon mason jars).

 

[Capt.Ahab]

I store my seeds in small ziplocks inside Mason jars with formaldehyde free moisture packs.
I had 3 out of five 17 year old seeds germinate and grow last year.

 

[kaneboy]

I've stored mine in the fridge for last 10 years ,still get 90% to grow ,i beforehand left seeds in a shoebox in a cool area of a cupboard and 5 years later I was lucky if 20% would fully grow

 

[Cakeboy]

the best germ rate i have experienced was after drying the seeds in an open bowl in the fridge for a few days prior to freezing