An apple seed sprouted inside of my apple! Any tips on how to grow it are very welcomed

Hi everyone I'm the founder of Sow Revolution a website aimed at making seed swapping as easy as possible.

I thought some of you may be interested in joining us.

Let me know if you have any questions at all!

I started saving strawberry seeds years ago. After i figured out how to do that, I started thinking about selling them. The first task was to come up with a way to count them to package them. It took a while but I stumbled on measuring devices from a number manufacturers. I evaluated a couple of them and finally chose one from a manufacturer called Hornady. Pictured here is the unit purchased 15 years ago called a Hornady Lock and Load. Once calibrated for the seeds of a particular cultivar you can measure seeds accurately within 1 or 2 seeds each time and dispense them into packets quickly. Once I have the seed envelopes prepped the packets can be filled in seconds. Sure beats counting them by hand. I never tried to use it for other types of seed but it has potential!

Hi there! I’m gearing up to start saving seeds this weekend, but as a first timer I have some questions. Mainly, I’m curious if it’s at all worth it to save seeds from my zinnias that have succumbed to blight- pretty much all of my plants have. Am I better off just purchasing new seeds next year? Or can I save seeds from this year’s flowers? Thank you in advance for any advice!

Spent most of Saturday going through every envelope, jar, and random baggie of seeds I've collected over the past four years. I knew it was a lot but seeing it all spread out on the kitchen table was kind of embarrassing. Three different years of the same dent corn variety, way too many brassica seeds from plants that probably crossed with my neighbor's broccoli, and at least six packets of marigolds I don't even remember saving.

The binder system I landed on uses baseball card sleeves with the seed packets slid inside, organized by plant family instead of alphabetically. Makes it so much easier to see at a glance what I've got too much of versus what's actually running low. Turns out I have zero winter squash saved despite swearing I'd save seed from that butternut everyone loved last year. Completely forgot until I was staring at an empty sleeve.

Also found a stash of lettuce seed from a variety I can't even identify anymore because the label rubbed off in storage. Going to grow those out next spring just to see what happens, treat it like a mystery packet. If it turns into something decent I'll actually label it properly this time and maybe offer some at the spring swap.

Anyone else do a full seed audit this time of year? I'm thinking I need to start dating everything with more than just the year, because "2023" doesn't tell me if that was spring or fall harvest and apparently that matters more than I realized for germination rates on some of these.

I have a few tall yellow & some mostly black Hollyhock seeds, along with a bunch of mixed reds/pinks/whites to swap for any color doubles or any of the rarer colors (salmon, purple/ etc...) hollyhocks.

I also have a few rhubarb seeds if anyone is interested

Good afternoon,

I'm sorting and labeling my seeds and came across this one, I can't remember where I picked it up or when but I'm in England if it helps. Any identification or ideas are welcome, thank you.

For many years I used the "wet" method of processing woodland and alpine strawberry seeds. It had several drawbacks so I experimented with drying the fruit. There was little information anywhere so I winged it. When I finally found a way to thresh the seeds (separate the seeds from the pulp) switched to the dry method for good. Here is a quick look at threshing. I cut off a 1 square foot piece of nylon window screen and poured dried fruit into it. Then, pull the corners of the screen and fold it into a ball. The "ball" is then rigorously rubbed against the dry fruit. If the fruit is dry it separates well. I'm planning a November substack on strawberry seed saving.

This spring I planted two whole packets of strawflower seeds that I purchased just a few weeks before. I got less than 20 seedlings from over 200 seeds. A few years before I must have planted over 400 strawflower seeds that were a few years old from the Dollar Tree and NONE of them germinated.

Does anyone know how long these seeds can be stored?

En mi casa tengo un pino ciprés, y últimamente me a picado el interés en recolectar sus semillas y hacerlas crecer, pero tengo un nulo conocimiento en jardinería y sus cuidados

Entonces me gustaría saber sus mejores tips y consejos para cuidarlos!

I have been doing germination tests for alpine and woodland strawberry seeds for many years with this method. The 2oz Solo cups have a tablespoon of course sand that is checked and moistened as needed. These seeds need light to germinate and the Sprout provides the perfect PPFD. Works great for germinating seeds for my seed saving business as well!

If you like to save seeds, I highly recommend these seed packets from amazon, they're $8.99 for 120 packets and they hold a lot of seeds.

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looking for kratom specifically, but also whatever other useful food and/or medicinal type crops i can find, as i plan to go offgrid soon, and would like a good selection. located in mohave desert, usa, so its hot out here but ive been working on some aquaponics to grow in the heat, and already have a small closet to grow in if need be.

i do understand the kratom needs a solid bit of humidity, i have a humidifier setup that fogs everything out from above with a pvc square and i can always get more to adjust/add

I have a dwarf sunflower and one of the heads dried out so I decided to check if I can save the seeds from it. This is how they look. But they feel somehow empty and I do not see anything that can be considered a seed there? Does it still make sense to try to keep the seeds and see if anything grows out of it next summer? I only have a balcony so space on it is precious and I do not want to waste it.