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Mush 4 Brains
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Quick q about drying flower seeds in a dehydrator
#23785173 - 10/30/16 11:50 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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My uncle got really into planting flowers over the summer, specifically marigolds. He had some really healthy and prolific flowers that he's now trying to harvest the seeds from.
So my question is would a dehydrator be okay to use to dry and preserve seed? Is there a certain heat thats preferable? My dehydrator has temp settings, we were drying at the highest setting 170f like i do my mushies. Kinda afraid the heat may have rendered them unviable....
Is there a better method to drying marigold seeds?
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Re: Quick q about drying flower seeds in a dehydrator [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
#23785184 - 10/30/16 11:54 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Most seeds do not need dried. It can be only bad to expose the seeds to heat. Seeds that come inside a fruit could use a little cleaning and air dying. Not heat.
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Mush 4 Brains
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Re: Quick q about drying flower seeds in a dehydrator [Re: Morel Guy]
#23785253 - 10/30/16 12:17 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I was kinda thinking they were getting too dry, probably dont need to be cracker dry.
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Re: Quick q about drying flower seeds in a dehydrator [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
#23785279 - 10/30/16 12:24 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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What sort of flower seeds? Very few seeds need to be dry. In fact viable seeds often retain some water to keep alive.
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Mush 4 Brains
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Re: Quick q about drying flower seeds in a dehydrator [Re: Morel Guy]
#23785534 - 10/30/16 01:42 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Like i said marigolds.
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Re: Quick q about drying flower seeds in a dehydrator [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
#23785802 - 10/30/16 03:02 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Your seeds are probably worthless if you baked them at 170f.
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Re: Quick q about drying flower seeds in a dehydrator [Re: El Torcho]
#23786518 - 10/30/16 06:32 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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El Torcho said: Your seeds are probably worthless if you baked them at 170f.
Yeah... Doesn't seem like the best move.
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Re: Quick q about drying flower seeds in a dehydrator [Re: El Torcho]
#23786569 - 10/30/16 06:50 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Wow great helpful post Eltorcho! How should i preserve them? They dried soo slowly in the dehydrator when we tried it on the lowest setting.
So on the second run we turned the heat up from the lowest til gradually the highest. They looked the same as the other ones dried at a cooler temp. You know mushrooms arent supposed to be dried at such heat but plenty of people do it and theyre still potent. And btw its really NOT "baking" anything.
Right now he just has em sitting on newspaper air drying.
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Re: Quick q about drying flower seeds in a dehydrator [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
#23787546 - 10/31/16 05:10 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Mush 4 Brains said: Wow great helpful post Eltorcho! How should i preserve them? They dried soo slowly in the dehydrator when we tried it on the lowest setting.
So on the second run we turned the heat up from the lowest til gradually the highest. They looked the same as the other ones dried at a cooler temp. You know mushrooms arent supposed to be dried at such heat but plenty of people do it and theyre still potent. And btw its really NOT "baking" anything.
Right now he just has em sitting on newspaper air drying.
You're welcome. Seeds dry on their own. Plants have been around for eons before humans and electric dehydrators. They don't need any help. You picked them too early if they weren't dry, and the viability probably wasn't good before you put them up to 170f. Seeds aren't spores, or fungal fruit.
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