Just finished going through seeds and cataloging. Each vial has a bit of cotton ball in it. Gona store the whole thing in fridge unless someone tells me otherwise.
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Thats what I do. Same vials
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I keep my seeds in baggies within sandwich bags in my freezer. have had some for 10+ years. I am wondering if I should move them to a different cool dark place like a cooler or my fridge rather than the freezer? i still get really good results from my 10 year old seeds, but would like to be able to pop some seeds after 20 years in storage
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I say keep doing what you’re doing. Provided the seeds are dry enough, freezer is best. Freezing before the seeds are properly dry is a no no, but otherwise the colder the better.
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its my thoughts, i have a list that i primarily use so the seeds arent really taken out for more than a few minutes as i grab the seeds i am using for my next round.
it makes me think of the ice age flower that scientists were able to revive.
Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice | Nature
During the Ice Age, Earth’s northern reaches were covered by chilly, arid grasslands roamed by mammoths, woolly rhinoceros and long-horned bison. That ecosystem, known by palaeontologists as the mammoth steppe, vanished about 13,000 years ago. It has no modern counterpart.
Yet one of its plants has reportedly been resurrected by a team of scientists who tapped a treasure trove of fruits and seeds, buried some 30,000 years ago by ground squirrels and preserved in the permafrost (S. Yashinaet al.Proc.NatlAcad.Sci.USAhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118386109;2012). The plant would be by far the most ancient ever revived; the previous record holder was a date palm grown from seeds roughly 2,000 years old.
A prehistoric plant resurrected from frozen tissue. Credit: S. Yashina et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA
The squirrels’ burrows, 70 in all, were found on the banks of the lower Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia, 20–40 metres below the current surface of the tundra and surrounded by the bones of mammoths and other creatures. Some burrows contained hundreds of thousands of fruits and seeds, wonderfully preserved by the cold, dry environment.
Researchers had previously attempted to grow plants from seeds found in these ancient burrows, including sedge, Arctic dock, alpine bearberry and the herbaceous plant Silene stenophylla. Those seeds did begin to germinate, but then faltered and died back.
Tantalized, David Gilichinsky of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science in Pushchino decided to try a different approach (sadly, Gilichinsky passed away last week). He and his colleagues took samples of placental tissue from S. stenophylla fruits. The plant placenta — an example of which is the white matter inside a bell pepper — gives rise to and holds the seeds. The tissue produced shoots when it was cultivated in vitro, and the scientists used these to propagate more plants. They are the oldest living multicellular organisms on Earth, the team says.
The plants have already blossomed to produce fertile seeds, which were grown into a second generation of fertile plants. During propagation, the ancient form of the wild flower produced more buds but was slower to put out roots than modern S. stenophylla, which is found along the banks of the Kolyma. This suggests that the original has a distinct phenotype, adapted to the extreme environment of the Ice Age.
“I’m excited that someone has finally succeeded in doing this,” says Grant Zazula of the Yukon Palaeontology Program in Whitehorse, Canada, who has investigated previous claims of ancient seed germination. “There is a good chance that extinct plant species could now be brought back to life from permafrost-preserved seeds.”
Although some members of the mammoth steppe ecosystem survive, no place on Earth currently holds the same combination of grasses, sedge and wild flowers that have been found in the mummified guts of Ice Age mammoths or in the frozen hoards of squirrels (B. V. Gaglioti et al. Quatern. Res. 76, 373–382; 2011). Zazula speculates that living plant tissue from much earlier — hundreds of thousands of years ago — might also be revived, revealing evolutionary change over a longer timescale, and helping scientists to understand the lost ecology of periods such as the Ice Age.
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Not saying which is better fridge or freezer, but I’ve germinated seeds stored for over 15 year in my fridge. 
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I use a freezer so I’ll also add to not open the container until it reaches outside air temp so as not to form condensation when opened.
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Do you possible have a link to where you purchased that?
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Yeah I was about to say, freezer is cool for Long term, but definitely let that jar sit and warm up or the condensation will ruin all your efforts. That’s why I prefer the fridge tbh, it’s dry in there.
Same thing with concentrates.
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Here you go bud. You can also order them from China cheaper, if you don’t mind the wait I will dig up the link, they are the same from both sources. They have a gasket in them to keep moisture out so they are perfect.
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As much as it pains me to open up breeder packaging before popping the seeds, I may have to convert to something like this…at least for a portion of my seeds. Storing in breeder packaging is taking up way more space than needed.
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i have mine in a humidor in a cool dark but dry cupboard and have germed seed that have been in there 8 years though germ rate was lower about 50%,
I think you should consider switching to some type of refrigeration, i still get 90 to 80% germ rates on 10 year old stuff
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Mine holds 100 types and it was only $13.99 Amazon.com
The labels are $3.99 Amazon.com
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Hey overgrowmies. I’ve stored my seeds in the fridge and problem is I do trades so some times they go in and out. The germination rate is slim now. I know this is a dumb question but I guess I’m looking for some faith are these seeds no good?.
Hey there @Ronsonmatsuo4
Although you never mentioned the age of the beans themselves. I believe the change in temperature and environmental condition impact the lifespan of the seeds.
If stored in a nice cool ambient temperature in dry dark conditions would keep them viable for longer than in the fridge, on the countertop, in the mail, and then reverse the steps after delivery.
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Age of seeds are within 2 years a lot of them within a year
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They are still young enough to not have to consider age. Your seeds should be viable. I’d pop a few to germ test them if you’re that concerned.
Also hopefully you have them stored in a low humidity container with decadent.
Make sure they aren’t becoming overly dry…there’s a lot of concern about too much moisture. Seeds can also dry out.
