Seeds really are little miracles. Started my last few seeds of Lillian's Yellow Heirloom from '08. Since they were my last, gave them a 1 hour soak in a bit of tepid water with a drop of Sea Grow and a splash of hydrogen peroxide. They all came up in 4 days.
Sowed 9 seeds of Biely Naliv that I got from Grungy in '05 (and they may well have been a couple years old by then), 3 of them germinated; 1 at 4 days, 1 at 5 days and the last at 7 days. No pre-treatment at all. Also sowed 9 seeds of Brandy Boy, just to get rid of them and donate to plant sales. 8 of them popped up; 1 at 3 days, 5 at 4 days and 2 more at 5 days. Again, no pre-soaking.
... then of course there were the 2 commercial seeds from 2018 which never did come up...
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