Fridge or no fridge

[greenmachine29]

Just curious what the consensus is on cold storage. Just picked mini fridge up and I’m debating to fill it with seeds or keep them in the basement as I always have….

Option A




Or keep em in the tote

 

[RookieBuds]

I would love to get a wine cooler to store my flower in, but for now everything is dry storage.

Seeds, I just keep in a box, in a dresser drawer. I take them out and flip thru them every once in a while, so I don't want to shock them with too much temp fluctuaction.

 

[LG/]

Fridge, in a sealed container with a fair amount of desiccant

 

[billdozier]

Long storage = Pelican Cases inside freezer

Seeds I'm going to use within a year or two go in the fridge.

 

[Frimpong]

Cool dark place , never used the fridge before

 

[Orion]

Keep long time. Freezer with a working defrost.
Not so long, humity controlled safe.

 

[Chefdave]

Use a dedicated small fridge with good ziplocks and silica packs

 

[greenmachine29]

Nice thanks for all your input. I’m leaning towards the fridge at this point. Mainly because my basement swings over the year with temp and humidity. We heat with radiant and boiler so the winter is bone dry ( 30%) and 65 ish degrees.

Summer can be up to 75 degrees and near 75% humidity.
That just seems like to much swing and would be better off stable. Idk.

 

[HBZ]

I've always stored my seeds in containers that are wrapped in baggies and buried in rice.they stay in the fridge. .Have 3 gallon jars full of rice with buried seeds. Few different totes the same way..I have beans 20++ years old that I know would pop tomorrow if put to water.

 

[RookieBuds]

I've always stored my seeds in containers that are wrapped in baggies and buried in rice.they stay in the fridge. .Have 3 gallon jars full of rice with buried seeds. Few different totes the same way..I have beans 20++ years old that I know would pop tomorrow if put to water.

What's the oldest beans you got in that rice?

 

[HBZ]

What's the oldest beans you got in that rice?

I know there is some bagseed in there from roughly 1995 thru 97ish..Some being white widow crosses and a few Northern lights varieties..Some seeds sealed in cellophane no label..who knows what they are but there is a reason they are there I don't know the reason..Just know they didn't make it in there because they suck

 

[DemonTrich]

I keep (kept) mine in a Tupperware container, sealed, with either silica (dissicant (sp)) packs or white rice in the veggie drawer in the fridge.

 

[Rozgreenburn]

I use my fridge for what I intend to run within 12 months. Long term they go into the tubes of diamond art kits. 60 tubes per kit, good foam sleeves around the tubes, and the whole kit gets wrapped in bubble wrap and vacuum sealed before hiding them in the bottom of my private 5 CF freezer.
I've got some 10 year old chucks in there. After I get my preservations caught up, I'll pull out the oldest ones and grow them out, just to prove my method is sound. Proly early this Winter. I'll post up at that time.

 

[Ohwolfie]

Fridge, stored with desiccants, inside of a stainless steel vacuum food container or sealed glass jars.

 

[AppleDeez]

Anyone have any thoughts about using a makeup fridge. Always kept them in a the basement with silica packets. Is the fridge worth it?

 

[Bodean]

Shoeboxs stuffed full, packed in the basement. Stays around 63 down there year round. My old seeds still pop too FWIW.

 

[RookieBuds]

There's a such thing as a makeup fridge???

Don't tell my wife about that

 

[AppleDeez]

I didn't know it existed until one showed up in my bedroom. My first thought when I saw it was to remove the makeup and add seeds.

 

[RookieBuds]

I didn't know it existed until one showed up in my bedroom. My first thought when I saw it was to remove the makeup and add seeds.

Make sure to put a bunch of weed slaps/stickers on the front of it to assert your dominance

 

[HydroRed]

Ive done both over the last couple decades and I've found that my old fridge beans seemingly have greater success rates than old dry storage beans. I feel like them being refrigerated mimics nature and the naturally dropped seedlings sitting in the cold/frozen ground waiting until next spring to germinate.