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Visions of Valerie
Jun 18, 2023

Come this autumn, we'll be miles away...

Bollock Monkey posted:

Yeah, fair point. I think I just assumed supermarket dried would be, I dunno, treated with growth inhibitors or really old or who fuckin' knows. Perhaps I will sproot.

Once dried, seeds need to become wet again to sprout, so the packaging takes care of that. Viability does decrease over time, but that takes years to be a problem. In the US at least, generally it's as you imagine: if you're is trying to grow plants from supermarket vegetables, you do run the risk that they're not viable when they're not organic (e.g., they may have been irradiated to increase shelf life).

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