Seed survival

[Howboutthemdawgs]

I bought a couple bags of jointvetch, clay peas and lab lab to plant this spring. I ended up finding another property and am listing mine and closing on the new one June 1st. I could plant my current place next weekend but I’d rather not if I won’t be hunting it (if it doesn’t sell by deer season I could certainly hunt it) but I don’t want to see the seed go to waste cause it’s expensive. It’s pretty late and my new place doesn’t have the space yet to plant all this seed…in a perfect world I would save it to next year. Would you feel comfortable saving it and getting good germination?

 

[Bill]

Seal in in air right containers and store it as dry as possible. Germination may be reduced some. I save seed every year and never had a terrible experience.

 

[4wanderingeyes]

I have left over seed from last year that I will be using this year. I usually do every year. Never really notice much difference.

 

[SD51555]

I bought a couple bags of jointvetch, clay peas and lab lab to plant this spring. I ended up finding another property and am listing mine and closing on the new one June 1st. I could plant my current place next weekend but I’d rather not if I won’t be hunting it (if it doesn’t sell by deer season I could certainly hunt it) but I don’t want to see the seed go to waste cause it’s expensive. It’s pretty late and my new place doesn’t have the space yet to plant all this seed…in a perfect world I would save it to next year. Would you feel comfortable saving it and getting good germination?

I would keep on plotting your place with something to make it look good. Even some sorghum, sunflowers, collards, and balansa would go a long way towards curb appeal, and shouldn't break the bank. Adjust for the pig situation of course.

 

[bigboreblr]

2nd vote to plant something. Even if it's just some grains. Nothing sells a hunting property like a pretty hunting plot.......

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

I would keep on plotting your place with something to make it look good. Even some sorghum, sunflowers, collards, and balansa would go a long way towards curb appeal, and shouldn't break the bank. Adjust for the pig situation of course.

Well thank god kentucky doesn’t have pigs yet. I agree though something would look good. It’s wheat, oats and rye now. Great fawning and brooding habitat but in a few weeks it won’t be attractive to a buyer.

 

[TreeDaddy]

Well thank god kentucky doesn’t have pigs yet. I agree though something would look good. It’s wheat, oats and rye now. Great fawning and brooding habitat but in a few weeks it won’t be attractive to a buyer.

Which is why I delay cutting mine

They do get ugly in a hurry when weather gets really warm

bill

 

[Wild Thing]

I just did "Rag Doll" tests on some of my seed recently:

Fresh RR Sugar Beet seed - 92+% germination.
Leftover RR Sugar Beet seed from last year (1 year old) - 90%
Unknown (allegedly 1 year old) RR Sugar Beet seed - 45%. I just purchased some of this seed from a new supplier (food plotter) so I am not entirely sure of its origin.

I have had very poor germination from RR Soybean seed after 2-3 years so I wouldn't hang on to soybean seed very long.

I haven't done a great deal of germination testing on other seeds like clovers, brassicas, sorghum, etc, but I usually keep leftover seed only a year or two and have not noticed any big difference in germination rates in the field.