I feel like that should result in some kind of party!

Shoot! I just layered my seeds on the paper towel in the plastic bag, do you really think it is necessary to cover with the paper towel? Did you close the zip lock bag all of the way?

Awesome testimony! Thank you for that!

oh yeah! MI Gardener seeds were great in my garden last year too.

same here!

If these are outside of the packets: Do you put anything in the jar with them, like cotton wool, to stop moisture or are they fine?

Great job hun!!!

That's awesome!!! Good for you!

Thank you John! :)

Well, 5 days after watching this video, I am here to report that I am testing several different seeds. One packet is Snow Crown cauliflower dated 2005, and all 5 test seeds have popped out a li't root. Amazing. I store all my seeds ingallon Ziploc bags and within those bags, I subdivide veggie types and keep everything zipped up. All that goes into my spare fridge, where they stay all year.

How long do they last that way?

I know for sure that we get 2-3 seasons if we dont use them all up. I will ask Grandpa what the longest is. He told us that the cold especially helps when saving your own seed because it is like a fake winter!

I keep mine on the freezer as well!

The upside is one successful plant will yield a lot of seeds from one pod that you leave to age.

Agreed!

@@rondacorkhill1654 yes, but you want to have a couple of plants so you have a mixed "gene pool."

@@GardenJensJourney I concur. I try two plants per seed variety. It usually works out for me.

@@rondacorkhill1654 yesssss that’s what I’m doing!!

I don't complicate things that much. If I plant 2 seeds that have .50% It just gives me more chances. Heck, I might plant 3 seeds and get even closer but after 3 seeds if none of them germinate then the seed sucks and I will just buy new seed.

It’s not complicating things to know that if a seed has a 1/N chance of not germinating, then 2 seeds will give a 1/(N*N) chance of none germinating. And 3 seeds will give a 1/(N*N*N) chance of none germinating. If it is a 1/2 chance of not germinating, 2 seeds have a 1/4 or 25% chance of none germinating. 3 seeds: 1/8 or 12.5%. If it is a 1/10 chance of not germinating, 2 seeds have a 1/100 or 1% chance of none germinating. 3 seeds: 1/1000 or 0.1%. Statistics like that provide a picture that with some more expensive or rare tomato seeds (I’ve heard of $.80/seed!!), if the germination rate is 9/10, don’t bother double seeding a cell out of concern that a cell may have none germinate; that would happen like 1 time in a 100 (while ~81/100 would have two seedlings, which either need to be thinned or split apart).

@@MIgardener Thanks again for the work you do! I just came back to the comments section to find that others had since pointed out the same point, sometimes with a harsh tone. I hope my comment was not taken in that way and I apologize if it was. I really have learned a lot from your videos and wouldn't want to contribute to the negativity that can sometimes come from people being overly eager to criticize.

I ❤️ smart comments! I also married a math major. Lol.

@@nathanbarnes4721 It is a balancing act: Not wanting to criticize, but also not wanting to let basic statistical problems get solved blatantly (sorry, but yes) to yield substantially incorrect results, leading to people not knowing how to interpret data and recognize what is correct and what is not. Factually. Not a judgement. Aside from statistics, being able to recognize obviously incorrect misinformation is a huge problem, in the USA, at least. I added the following to another thread on this: In the last minute of the video when Luke says "50% germination plus 50% germination, you have nearly 100% chance of something growing in this cell", adding a text annotation into the video that pops up and says 'ok, not exactly "plus"' and another that says 'and 75%, not 100%' would have polished up an excellent video to be even better. Without that, there will be a portion of future engineering/math/scientific viewers whose alarms will go off, like hearing fingernails scratching a chalkboard!, cringing at probabilities being combined incorrectly and inaccurate conclusions being drawn (even though Luke hits the essential point by planting 2 or 3 seeds in a cell).

They prolly will be out of date

Unless kept frozen

Ive grown 5 yo peas dried

They've grown seeds from the pharaohs tombs so you've got a great chance

There have been seeds found in old caves from native Americans. So seeds can last a long time.

Thanks!

Thank you, I was wondering that.

MIGardener seeds are the best!

Was that your only pepper seed? I find peppers love presoak and heat heat heat you can get some pretty bad germ without that. The problem is wet soil is generally cold soil ! So if you don't have the humidity to maintain warm moist soil its tough.

@@eric4946 I had about 12 different pepper kinds the purple bells were so cool I have a germination tent

I am from Trinidad. The hotter the pepper, the longer it takes to germinate. I use the paper towel method to germinate and I always get good results

@@redcurrant2023 True that. The Carolina reaper and Moruga scorpion yellow and the rest germinated in half the time. Over 95% successes

I’ve been trying to order from baker creek and it won’t let me meanwhile things are selling out that are in my shopping cart lol

@@taxigirl5637 oh I ordered from migardener as I wanted to support local business in my state not sure but heard lots of seeds are flying off the shelves as soon as they put them up. Keep trying check farm stores dollar stores as well as they are starting to put them out now hope you get everything you need and are looking for

Well not NOW literally, just sometime before seed starting so you don't push your time back by weeks.

Awesome! Just got the last bit of my seeds today. I have at least 99% germination from their seeds.

@@j.h.9191 totally!! Luckily, while baker creek was closed they were reupping their inventory and got restocked with a lot of things!! But still, I’m watching their inventory numbers and things are selling like crazy. Luckily I have everything I *need* but there is no such thing as enough seeds