The Complete Seed Storage Guide

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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If you’re like me, storing seeds is a necessity. You may have particular flowers that you grow every year like geraniums, or a favorite kind of kale or watermelon that you love the taste of. But knowing how to store seeds is incredibly important, as poorly-stored seeds won’t germinate. No matter if the seeds are large or small, there is a proper way to store them for long periods of time. Even if you just need them to be viable until the next planting season, it’s important to have the right conditions in place! So if you found that rare seed type you’ve been looking for at long last, go ahead and grab a packet or two, and I’ll go over the best way to store seeds for long term use! Learn More: Storing Seeds: Ways Of Preserving Seeds For Future Planting Keep Growing, Kevin Podcast Sponsor: Four Sigmatic I've been a fan of Four Sigmatic for a while, so when they decided to send out some product and sponsor the cast, I was overjoyed. They make "drinking mushrooms." Delicious and easy to mix mushroom coffees, mochas, hot cacaos, and elixirs. I'm a big fan of the Lion's Mane Coffee and the Hot Cacao with Reishi - the perfect way to bookend a day. Use code epicshrooms for 15% off your first order. Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello my friends how you doing out there hope you're staying cool
0:05.8	welcome to August or as I like to call it over here in San Diego second summer
0:11.0	we are still growing fruiting plants, peppers, tomatoes, etc.
0:14.5	over here, not to rub it in if you're in a colder climate, but promise it's not all
0:19.4	sunshine and rainbows over here because it's so hot this summer.
0:23.7	I'm just dying every single day.
0:25.8	Have to get out of the house when it comes to be about 2 PM, 1 PM to about 4 PM.
0:30.9	I can't be inside the house.
0:31.9	I can't think it's so hot. Okay, today we're talking
0:34.9	about storing seeds, whether you're saving seeds or whether you buy seeds from
0:39.6	local nurseries, online stores, whatever the case may be, there is a proper way to store seeds
0:46.4	to increase their longevity and their germination percentage.
0:50.6	So if you found rare seeds or you simply just want to make sure that you're storing your seeds correctly, please listen up because it is pretty important.
0:59.0	Okay, first of all, let's talk about seeds. There are three major parts of seeds. You have your
1:05.3	seed coat, that's the external hard shell of the seed. Inside you've got the
1:09.6	embryo, along with what's called the endosperm. That is a source of food to sustain the early early seedling.
1:17.0	So the plant itself is dormant while it's hidden within that seed casing. So plants, seeds aren't dead.
1:24.9	They are just extremely, extremely
1:27.7	slowed down from a metabolic perspective.
1:30.8	They're not dead. In the wrong environment a plant is going to have a very hard time
1:36.4	staying asleep quote unquote and it might even start trying to germinate or it might
1:41.8	die so these seeds might either germinate or it might die. So these seeds might either germinate or die
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