Two years ago I planted evening sun sunflowers and saved the seeds. I have beautiful plants growing from the seeds now. I would like to use the old seeds again next year and am curious if I can use just the seed alone without it’s shell since they are floating around shell-less
Thanks
Sunflower seed help
Probably your best action at this point is to plant a few of the original seeds in a growing medium to see if they sprout and grow. When doing this, I usually plant 2/3 seeds to a small disposable pot since I'm usually going to dispose of the pot and seedlings after the grow/sprout or no grow/sprout experiment is complete. Placed in a sunny window, you should see results in as little as a few days unless you live in an area with a year round growing season.
I would caution however, that often its far more practical to start with "new" seeds every couple of years, especially if you know the type or variety of a favorite plant. I say this only because of the length of growing time wasted if in fact, your "old" seeds are no longer viable.
Two years ago I planted evening sun sunflowers and saved the seeds. I have beautiful plants growing from the seeds now. I would like to use the old seeds again next year and am curious if I can use just the seed alone without it’s shell since they are floating around shell-less.
It is certainly worth a try to plant your old original seeds. That second picture has "chaff" and not "shells".
So your original seeds are not "shell-less". They have just been cleaned of their chaff. If you wished, you could pick clean seeds out of the chaff in that second picture.
ZM
Edited to remove a duplicate message. Dave's Garden, it is annoying that you posted my message twice.
ZM
This message was edited Aug 30, 2018 1:06 PM
I guess this thread is complete.
ZM
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