Rednekf350
Well-Known Member
Good evening everyone,
This is my third growing season and never really gave much thought to seed harvesting. After a good growing season and three primings, I have more color cured tobacco than I need. So, I just let the plants be plants.
Tonight I was picking all of my remaining peppers and then I went over to say goodbye to my tobacco plants because we are supposed to get our first hard frost tonight. I noticed my Burley had a ton of mature seed pods on the flower heads. I cut several heads off and dropped them into a bowl and I had seeds falling out just from dropping them in the bowl. I took them in the house and rolled all of the mature pods in my fingers and in no time I had 3.2 million seeds. I sieved out the pod fragments and was left with a huge amount of seed. I did notice a lot of small, flea-like bugs dropping out of the pods with the seed and they were crawling around in the sieved seed. I put the seeds in the garage tonight hoping the cold will help knock them out.
Can I expect good germination from this ? I will still purchase new seed in the winter but I want to see what kind of success I can get out of these too. Any though on what the bugs are ?
Thanks !
This is my third growing season and never really gave much thought to seed harvesting. After a good growing season and three primings, I have more color cured tobacco than I need. So, I just let the plants be plants.
Tonight I was picking all of my remaining peppers and then I went over to say goodbye to my tobacco plants because we are supposed to get our first hard frost tonight. I noticed my Burley had a ton of mature seed pods on the flower heads. I cut several heads off and dropped them into a bowl and I had seeds falling out just from dropping them in the bowl. I took them in the house and rolled all of the mature pods in my fingers and in no time I had 3.2 million seeds. I sieved out the pod fragments and was left with a huge amount of seed. I did notice a lot of small, flea-like bugs dropping out of the pods with the seed and they were crawling around in the sieved seed. I put the seeds in the garage tonight hoping the cold will help knock them out.
Can I expect good germination from this ? I will still purchase new seed in the winter but I want to see what kind of success I can get out of these too. Any though on what the bugs are ?
Thanks !