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Are you or did you remove the husk before you place in the damp paper towel?
Make a concentrated chammomille tea and wash rhe seeds in it ,then wet the towel paper with chamomille tea and put the seeds in the bag as usual.Chamomille tea is a bio antifungic ( kills mold) and its verry efficient .Otther option would be to sprinkle cinnamon powder on the seeds and towel after you wash the seeds,or to soak in copper solution( bordeaux type).From all of these treatments,the chamomille tea its the best.
We hope that you have a seed import permit for wherever you are bringing them into, and that they will be properly inspected.Having the husk removed greatly facilitates inspection--- first by you, and then by the official.In Florida, for instance, we don't need any of the seed borers that haven't gotten here yet.
I have been collecting mango seeds for the last couple weeks and I have been wrapping each one in wet paper towel then seal it inside a ziploc bag.Every couple of days the paper gets dark and very often rot starts to build and as soon as I notice it, I wash the seed and wrap it in a new paper. It seems that so far the main root is still pushing in some of them.I was wondering if any of you is familiar with sanitizing the seeds, maybe bleaching? Should sanitizing chemicals have a negative effect on the sprouting process? If that's possible, it could probably save me some time replacing the paper.I cannot use soil at this point and I can't plant the seed in the ground. The whole point is that I'm traveling overseas and I wanted to take with me some seeds but the only way I could think of to save the seeds until then was to try and sprout them, unless you know of a better way to preserve the seeds for a couple weeks.Thank you!
Quote from: ammoun on April 21, 2019, 08:44:07 PMI have been collecting mango seeds for the last couple weeks and I have been wrapping each one in wet paper towel then seal it inside a ziploc bag.Every couple of days the paper gets dark and very often rot starts to build and as soon as I notice it, I wash the seed and wrap it in a new paper. It seems that so far the main root is still pushing in some of them.I was wondering if any of you is familiar with sanitizing the seeds, maybe bleaching? Should sanitizing chemicals have a negative effect on the sprouting process? If that's possible, it could probably save me some time replacing the paper.I cannot use soil at this point and I can't plant the seed in the ground. The whole point is that I'm traveling overseas and I wanted to take with me some seeds but the only way I could think of to save the seeds until then was to try and sprout them, unless you know of a better way to preserve the seeds for a couple weeks.Thank you!I found if you make paper towel too wet, it will cause mold, if you make it wet and squeeze out by hand lose moisture, then wrap, put in garage, it will not get mold and will sprout much faster.
The ziplock bags obviously don’t allow for proper air flow(I even had to change out the paper towels for the ones in the ziplock so they wouldn’t mold over.. big difference to the soup container-
Quote from: 561MangoFanatic on May 19, 2019, 09:10:07 PMThe ziplock bags obviously don’t allow for proper air flow(I even had to change out the paper towels for the ones in the ziplock so they wouldn’t mold over.. big difference to the soup container- Those mango seeds in the first picture look polyembrionic( seedlings but an exact copy of the mother plant just like a grafted tree).If you have more seeds in one shell theyre polyembrionic.
I'm trying with emerging the whole seed in water and I keep questioning myself every day if I should switch back to the paper towel method, anyone with some water sprouting experience?