20+ year old seeds, let's grow 'em

[NorthernOrganics]

I have this many left. I am planting six more today.

Here are the six I've chosen. I tried to choose different looking ones.

I found this neat set of tiny planters with draining trays at the thrift store for a few bucks. Filled with some fluffy soil, and a little bit of terp tea grow and great white mycorrhizae. Labeled by seed size and color.

Let's hope for some to pop.

 

[Leeboy]

I’ve actually had seeds take a month to pop open , in wet zip locks and in dirt . Some in dirt I’d forgotten and given up. Had them amongst 150 pepper plants . Surprised when up a sprout came next to one that was replanted in the same cup as one that sprouted weeks earlier . Don’t give up

 

[NorthernOrganics]

Update.

I don't see anything sprouting in the planters. I think I'll sow some more seeds tomorrow.

 

[SGT_TERP]

Have you considered trying GA3?

 

[NorthernOrganics]

Have you considered trying GA3?

I have. Not convinced enough that it would help. I've read studies on gibberellic acid positively effecting seed germination rates or fruit production in certain crops like wheat and rice. I'm not sure if adding it here would help these old cannabis seeds. It's an option, not ready to order any yet.

 

[buddafliiihaze]

Good friends are hard to come by. Lucky me, I got one. An old friend of mine found a hidden stash of herb seeds that he collected between late 90's and early 2000's in his travels of the United States. I help him out from time to time and he showed his appreciation by giving me a bunch of these old seeds. I'm going to grow them here and we will see what's in there. I'm hoping to find some good old school and share it with people who appreciate that kind of thing. View attachment 1306634

Let me know… I’ve got some from Texas that I’ve been eyeing.

 

[buddafliiihaze]

Hopefully one of us has some success. I tried manually scarifying the shells and splitting some of them. I think the h202 will chemically scarify them and clean the surface, then I'm thinking slightly acidic clean water with a tiny bit of kelp extract. That's my next try I think.

I’ve got the invest ones from Texas and have screen shot everyone’s suggestions. I’m going to begin with the scarifying (I fell down that rabbit hole a couple months ago)… I’ll begin this morning and will be back to let y’all how it goes.

 

[buddafliiihaze]

20:1
20 parts water to 1 part 3% hydrogen peroxide, soak for 8-12 hours and plant directly into soil. don't over water once in soil. try this out, it gave me success with some seeds over 20 years. they popped and sprouted, but stunted afterwards. i read online the older the seed, the easier they drown.

THANK YOU!!! That you’ve had success with this method, this is how I’ll begin.

 

[NorthernOrganics]

Six more going in a peroxide solution. I got one to pop after soaking in a solution for 24 hours, I'm going to try that again.

 

[NorthernOrganics]

Here they are about 30 hours later. They all sank and look cleaner like before, except one. It is a small dark one that stayed afloat. Maybe another lucky one. I'll plant these later. I'm starting to think I might plant the rest of the seeds I have depending on how many germinate out of this round of 6.

 

[0ttomanfarmer]

Good luck!

 

[BigSalty420]

Haven't checked in , in a minute. Is it still just the one that popped?

 

[NorthernOrganics]

Haven't checked in , in a minute. Is it still just the one that popped?

Yep. Just the one out of twelve so far. A success in my book.

 

[NorthernOrganics]

Update on the lone ranger

I planted the next six in the planters, off to the side off where the first ones were planted.

 

[elusiveshame]

It looks happy and healthy. Let's hope for a female!

 

[NorthernOrganics]

Better pictures of the lone ranger

 

[bongsmoker421]

mine grew to be like this then stopped, about a month, thats also the same the nutes in the soil last, so after the nutes ran out, the plant stopped, or started to grow very very very very slow. not having much of its own energy left, i culled it. stupid me. thinking back, i should have just chopped it down, BUT graft it onto a current plant that i dont mind mixing the genetics with, because once you flower, the grafted area will produce 50/50 flowers, its not pure, but atleast you'll have some form of old flower to smoke, and if you're able to pollinate that grafted branch, grow those seeds and graft another old sprout to it, repeat the process to back cross! it's gonna take some work!!! but i can see the light in the tunnel!

 

[NorthernOrganics]

The lone ranger. One seed of 24 planted so far. This was the only one to grow so far. This came from 20+ year old seeds.

 

[Leeboy]

Quick ! Take clones ….. haha , just kidding . This is awesome Bro . Keep up the good work .

 

[NorthernOrganics]

The Lone Ranger has a Tonto now. One of the peroxide soaked seeds broke the surface today.