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Well I have FRESH seeds HOME grown... I have dropped them in a bottle of rain water... over 11 days past all I got was couple of fury seeds, so has my friends whom I have shared my collection with... Mine don't look like the one in the photo ;-( so how long can the seeds stay in the water for .... Cindy
The seeds were kept in water since 7th July till last week. I threw away the last un-germinated seed since it may not be viable. All the other germinated within 1 to 1.5 months.
I think your problem could be the use of rain water. Mine were in distilled water.
The furry ones are those attacked by fungus and they are not likely to germinate or survive after germination. There are loads of spores in rain water which is why it is not recommended for this method of germination.
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I got some VFT seeds today. I put some seeds with my large VFT Pot with a few mature VFTs in it and I got some sitting is some cups of water, one that is mixed with the plants water, and two that are filled with RO water. BTW, is it OK/better for the seeds to sink into the water?
I had best success with seeds that were sunken. It's hard to get some of them to stop coming up, but you have to just keep pushing them. Gently holding them under for about 30 seconds with tweezers seemed to help.
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