Chaseink501
Well-Known Member
is it possible to germinate fresh harvested seeds right off plant?
The moisture in the refrigerator isn’t going to hurt them or anything right?If you want to increase the chances of the seeds having closer to 100% germination then it's better to cold stratify/stratificate the seeds, place them in a triple sealed bag or bottle/bottles to keep the moisture off of them and leave them in the fridge for about 30-40 days, this will trigger a mechanism within the seeds that they developed from nature/natural cycles to know when winter has passed and when spring air has returned.
So if you want higher chances of them popping cold stratify them, might only need like 2 weeks in the fridge, the 40 days thing is just a rule of thumb guide for most seeds in general.
That's true, I forgot to mention that, make sure if your bottles or containers are not light proof, to wrap something around them or place them inside something or somewhere that will shield them from receiving too much light from inside the fridge, that can have an effect on them over time. Me personally I'd go for as dark possible.I use amber 2ML glass essential oil bottles to store my seeds. I print out labels for them and store them in a hard sided case made for the bottles. Doesn't take up much space in the fridge. Pretty cheap on ebay or amazon. I do try to rotate out older seeds, but I have had no problems with 2-3 year old seeds stored this way.