[dmforcier]

I've used the OxyClean procedure on peppers and toms both. The question is, what are you trying to do with it? Clean off the seeds? Good. Improve germination? No effect. Nor for that matter will H2O2 improve germination in any way. (It may well help keep them alive once they do pop...)

Are you selecting seed when you 'plant'? If I want to start say, six, I spread out 100 on a plate, select six with a magnifying glass - the six strongest looking ones - and go with those.* There will be some with discolorations and some that are small and feeble looking. Those don't get planted.

Obviously no one can vouch for seed received, but one does expect that seed from one's own garden will be viable a few years hence. But it ain't necessarily so. 95% of the time my own seed hits the ground running, yet some varieties just seem "weak". Couldn't tell you why.


* I do a similar selection with seed I'm sending.