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To: Ellendra

What is the Oxyclean method to clean tomato seeds?


263 posted on 08/28/2013 7:37:09 AM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.)
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To: Marcella

Mix seeds with a cup of water. Add 1 tablespoon Oxyclean. Let soak an hour. Rinse. Soak in plain water 5 minutes, rinse again. Let dry.

At least, those were the instructions. What the instructions didn’t say was that it foams slowly enough to fool you into doing something else, and then you come back and there’s what looks like a pink sponge crawling out of the jar! Also, the seeds and bits of pulp get pushed to the top of the foam, so some don’t get the full treatment. Next time I’ll use a big bowl, and will walk by and stir it a few times. Rubber gloves would also be a good idea, especially if you have as many small cuts on your hands as I did. I’ll also be more careful to stir them as they dry, because the first thing they did was glue themselves together.

The Oxyclean dissolves the gel around the seed, and also kills off any nasties that might infect your plants.


286 posted on 08/28/2013 9:37:18 PM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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