Re: [CH] found some old peppers
Brent Thompson (brent@hplbct.hpl.hp.com)
Mon, 08 Oct 2001 09:27:19 -0700
> A good chance they will not germinate. I noticed my seeds germination drop
> quite a bit after 3 years.
This is the benefit of storing seeds in a cool, dry place. I store chile
seeds in fridge in a container with a little silica gel, and last spring
seeds collected 15 years ago from market-purchased chiles still germinated
OK (though I have to admit after 10 years or so germination rate did begin
to drop from the nearly 100% that is normally expected of chile seeds).
Obviously storage in such conditions doesn't apply to forgotten chiles
found years later, but it is a lesson for saving seeds of the varieties we
really like.
--- Brent