The expiry date

[jezza03]

Hey members , i planted a few bean s , recently, with sum seeds over 12 yrs old and got a 75% germination ,
They were stored in the kitchen fridge
With, the exception of beans coming from the freezer, what's the oldest you have, had success with and what is your storage, method .?

Cheers

 

[benn0]

4 years lol not very long

 

[VinDeezle]

Id say about 7-8 years. But my storage is usually ass. Just chuck em in a drawer.

 

[BudSlinger]

Years ago I bought hundreds of seeds, back when it was super cheap. There were more Aus seed banks back then, now there are only a few and they aren't even resellers they are all white label now. Stuff got through from OS much more too.

Before using a fridge I tried to crack seeds that were left out in my cupboard for about 5 years. All the seeds were duds, whole collection gone. Chances are they weren't dry or cool enough, and temp swings probably fucked them. I had stopped growing and stopped caring . I didn't even use a jar with rice, I just put them in a bag inside a draw and all were duds after 5 years of temp/humidity swings.

 

[VinDeezle]

Years ago I bought hundreds of seeds, back when it was super cheap. There were more Aus seed banks back then, now there are only a few and they aren't even resellers they are all white label now. Stuff got through from OS much more too.

Before using a fridge I tried to crack seeds that were left out in my cupboard for about 5 years. All the seeds were duds, whole collection gone. Chances are they weren't dry or cool enough, and temp swings probably fucked them. I had stopped growing and stopped caring . I didn't even use a jar with rice, I just put them in a bag inside a draw and all were duds after 5 years of temp/humidity swings.

Ive tried the fridge here but living in share cunts just steal shit or throw shit away. Joys of share and rapidly rotating students. Sounds horrible but a lot of the foreign students just have zero respect for other people's stuff sadly. Lost about 150-200 seeds over 20-25 strains a few weeks back as someone just emptied half the fridge without consulting anyone lol.

Spewn.. still have a ton of random seeds here from a few more recent sprees but will have to start storing them in me mums fridge cause I can't risk them all disappearing again.

I threw a few old regs from 2016-2017 in a few months ago. Out of 10 only 3 germed over the first week. But murphys law another 4 or 5 decided to pop a week later once I threw em back into the medium bin.

 

[BudSlinger]

Ive tried the fridge here but living in share cunts just steal shit or throw shit away. Joys of share and rapidly rotating students. Sounds horrible but a lot of the foreign students just have zero respect for other people's stuff sadly. Lost about 150-200 seeds over 20-25 strains a few weeks back as someone just emptied half the fridge without consulting anyone lol.

I got a 42L bar fridge for my seeds so I'm not just opening and closing the fridge all the time, can easily fit it in a room if you need it to. Got it from Aldi for $140, its a 42L pretty perfect size.

 

[John Hall]

I am storing seeds in the fridge. I have germinated seeds that were 15 years old although the Germination rate was poor the seeds were just kept in a drawer and given to me by my brother.
I have them sealed in individual bags or containers then in another sealed bag then place in containers with rice then into a larger container with just rice. Seen as I have soooo many seeds I wanted to make sure they were well looked after.