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Food Saver Vacuum Packaging to save seeds?
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Posted by sultry_jasmine_night steamy z9 (My Page) on Tue, Nov 15, 05 at 15:16
Does anyone use a Food Saver or other vacuum package type product to save seeds? It seems like it would keep the humidity out (I live in the deep south). If you then stored that in a cool dark place would it increase the seed viability opposed to non vacuuming? TIA
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RE: Food Saver Vacuum Packaging to save seeds?
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| I would try wrapping them in a little envelope of paper toweling first. Otherwise, the vacuum could suck the seeds right out of the bag! |
RE: Food Saver Vacuum Packaging to save seeds?
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| Good idea. I was thinking of doing that and then placing them in a mason jar and use the jar attachment to vacuum the air out. |
RE: Food Saver Vacuum Packaging to save seeds?
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| I was also considering the mason jar attachment for this (as per the manual they suggest a coffee filter placed ontop of super fine things like flour, or in this case, tiny seeds I would imageine) I bought myself a foodsaver for christmas just to find that its really quite useless and to expensive to use for half the things it is advertised for.
The mason jar attachment however looks promising, especially since they are reuseable forever. Though I have not tried it, I would imagine that the vacuum packing would keep the seeds at the exact state in which they were packed. (Similar to how it keeps brown sugar from going hard by losing moisture or going sticky by absorbing too much). The vacume sealer companies list garden seeds as something it keeps "fresher" but after an hour or so searching the net I was unable to find any conclusive evidence lol. So I am also interested in hearing from anyone that has tried this out. |
RE: Food Saver Vacuum Packaging to save seeds?
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| when i worked the meat packing and had little thing to vacum we would pack it somthing than vacum it |
RE: Food Saver Vacuum Packaging to save seeds?
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Hello all,
I do not own a vacuum packer but I am thinking about buying one. I have not been able to come up with a reason to do it yet, until a couple of days ago when I received some seeds from a trade that were vacuum packed. It seemed sort of wasteful the way it was done though, a huge section with only a dozen seeds in it. I am hoping that there is a machine that will allow very small packs not wasting so much of the material. If anyone could reccomenda machine that would do this I would appreciate it. If you are only saving seeds to be used for the next spring it might be overkill. However, if you are saving seeds that remain viable for years such as Tomatoes (5 years or more) it would probably be a good idea and should extend the life of the seeds. "MJ" |
RE: Food Saver Vacuum Packaging to save seeds?
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| I don't know about a vacumn sealer, but what I use to get close to vacumn packing is a straw. I put my seeds in a coin envelope and then put the coin envelopes in a zip loc bag...close the bag except for a little space for the straw, then suck out the air from the bag and quickly withdraw the straw and finish sealing the bag. It's not exactly vacumn sealed but pretty close, and a lot less expensive. Thanks
JP |
RE: Food Saver Vacuum Packaging to save seeds?
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I use a vacuum sealer to store all of my tomato seeds and it has worked very well for me.
If you buy the bulk bag material on a roll you can make what ever size bag you need.
The seeds go first into a small paper envolope and then into the vacuum bag.
The vacuum bags are made longer than needed so they can be resealed again after opening.
Hope this helps!
Haven a good day!
Dennis |
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