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Originally Posted by FILMNET
You do not put the seeds in water before in the dirt?
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I haven't reread thru this long thread but it's rare that I ever soak tomato seeds in water before sowing them.
The only time I do that is if the seeds are very old, and thus dehydrated, and then I do soak overnight and add a pinch of blue stuff, ala Miracle Grow or PEters, etc, or one can use a few drops of seaweed or fish emulsion. Adding that stuff ups the concentration of nitrate ion which is known to be somehow involved in seed germination.
Now by old seeds I'm talking seeds over maybe 12 yo. With seeds less than 5 yo I just sow straight out. with seeds maybe 5-12 years I double sow, but when they get over about 12 yo and I'm pretty sure they are either non-viable or have very low germination, then I will soak. And darn if I don't still get good germination for some of them.
My best effort was waking up non-viable seeds that were 22 yo but the known record is waking up 50 yo tomato seeds.
