I like planning ahead for how I’m going to simplify my seed sorting. I’ve done a bunch of research and contemplated the full process, based on past experiences, and I believe the best affordable option for deseeding our finished plants will be to run them through a tumbler. Doing this will allow me to dry the plants, chill them and then tumble them to remove the trichomes.
Once the trichomes have been removed I can remove all the seeds that have fallen out, which should be most of them, and hand remove any stray seeds without fear of losing/ruining trichomes. As a bonus, the seeds should be lightly scarified without causing any damage to them! Our seeds don’t need to be resilient against the outdoor environment the way other seeds in a natural environment would, so early scarification shouldn’t be an issue.
I have a bunch of flower that I’ll be testing in it before we need it for doing SSDD seed separation and I’ll document that process on this linked thread so we can all see how it performs.
(I’ve asked LemonadeJoe to see if the linked thread should be merged with a similar one, so I’ll fix the link above if it’s needed in the future.)