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I was thinking of the best way to store seeds , would it be better to store the seeds in a jar or seal plastic bag or vacum seal bag , just thinking , hope to hear from some forum reader on this thanks mick silver

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any thought on putting seeds up for storing till you need them , to keep the safe , mick silver

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I've heard keeping them refrigerated or frozen is best. I've just been drying them and keeping them in plastic baggies labels with what they are. I'd suggest only planting 1/3 in case of seed failure.

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thank for some idea buy if i have to bug out im not going to have elec , just from a generator but cant run that all the time

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If i was going somewhere off grid, I'd want either solar, wind or hydro power, not a gas generator. Getting fuel for a gas generator and keeping it running will be costly as fuel prices rise. I guess it would be ok for backup use, though. Better plan to be eating things that don't need to be refrigerated, like dried or canned foods.

You need enough seeds to plant at least twice for at least a couple years. That way if the 1st plants don't make it, you plant again, and if that year's crop doesn't produce seeds for the next year, you still have some to try again the next year.

I've found it best to sprout the seeds in small jars, then go plant the sprouts instead of planting seeds and WISHING they'd come up weeks later.

Just thinking aloud... No expert here...

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I've purchased survival seeds (various garden variety)packed in #10 cans with 02 absorbers. We received a letter and another can of seeds from the supplier saying that because the seeds were living organisms they felt using the absorbers was a bad idea and that the new replacement can didn't contain any, sooooooo sounds like it isn't a good idea to starve the seeds of oxygen.

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I don't think I'd put my money into "survival seeds". Just buy heirloom seeds, grow plants, and harvest food and more seeds. No #10 cans or big investment required. Also, I'd think you'd be a lot better off growing what WILL grow where you'll be, and of that, what you like to eat, rather than whatever someone else decided to throw into an assortment.

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Cool, dark, dry place.

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i store seeds in the fridge, in their little envelopes. I have been doing so for years, and it works great.

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Cheap bastid, as your name implys.... LOL I keed.

I know , I had reservations about buying the survival seeds specially now that I know they won't last any longer than a regular seed and I totally agree about growing what will grow.

Bob, it seems I learn my most valued lessons the hard way.

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I learn as I go it seems, too... The hard way.

Nothing like having spent the whole summer tilling, planting, tending, weeding, watering only to find out nobody wants to eat broccolli or brussel sprouts, or that carrots only grow 2 inches long in the soil here, etc.

So I grow Yukon gold potatoes, Idaho baking potatoes, Italian roma beans, plum tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, spinach, radishes, watermelons, squash, cucumbers, pumpkins, honeydew melons, lettuce, snowpeas, garlic and peppers because they all seem to grow well here and will be eaten or can be preserved.

I've been able to salvage seed from many of them to grow the next year, but you need to think of that in advance and ONLY plant heirloom seeds, and let some go to seed, and get them and dry them and label them or it gets goofed up.

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I store them in the fridge in a sealed vacuum bag to keep moisture from ruining them, but I did not pull a vacuum before sealing as my seed seller said seed like to 'breathe' a very tiny bit.