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Long Term Storage of Seeds

Discussion in 'Marijuana Seeds Banks' started by Deleted member 1153948, Feb 24, 2023.

  1. #1 Deleted member 1153948, Feb 24, 2023
    After watching a few documentaries on bringing back extinct species. They used two examples of plants that have been extinct for thousands of years, but after finding seeds of those plants, they planted some and a few germinated. Could it be possible to store some landrace seeds in some kind of air-tight seal to preserve them? What are your thoughts? Could it be done?
     
  2. #2 GroBuddy, Feb 24, 2023
    Keep them air tight sealed in a freezer indefinitely
     
  3. #3 Deleted member 1153948, Feb 24, 2023
    Really?! I'll have to keep that in mind. Some seeds that have been preserved in permafrost germinated.
     
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  4. #4 GroBuddy, Feb 24, 2023
    Their just seeds, where I keep mine. Most depending on when they'll use them, sooner use fridge longer wait use freezer. Look at where the world's seeds are stored. Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, kept in a freezer sticking out of ice.
     

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  5. #5 Vee, Feb 24, 2023
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    you need one of these: world seed bank Norway.

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    inside: my oldest seeds go back to the late eighties and early 90's, the best landrace pure I have is Kerala,
    sativa, talk about fruit salad . I always store mine in the freezer, in old lunch boxes

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    ps better pic
     
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  6. #6 Deleted member 1153948, Feb 24, 2023
    Norway is a little out of my reach. But my closet has more room now that I sold my sewing machine.
     
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  7. #7 Deleted member 1153948, Feb 25, 2023
    I'm just afraid that they will be gone in the next 10 years. Landrace seeds are getting harder and harder to find.
     
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  8. #8 Vee, Feb 25, 2023
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  9. #9 Deleted member 1153948, Feb 25, 2023

    I think I've seen Strainhunters before. I watched a program on tv about these two men that were looking for original landrace seeds and they were going all over the world looking for specific strains.
     
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  10. #10 nachoboomer, May 25, 2023
    Now Jim Belushi is going to some of the same places for the same seeds/strains on his streaming grow show??? Somebody is a copycat.
     

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