Re: Sunnies & Broccoli sprouts

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Carolyn:

I'm obviously not being clear. I have frozen ALL of my sprouting seeds for

YEARS. I initially froze them for two weeks (sunnies included) and then put

them in my lock and lock containers and stored them in a cool place. But with my

sunnies, when I froze them for two weeks and then took them out, then the bugs

came out. This has never happened with any of the other seeds I took out. But

I rarely took any of the other seeds out anyway. I just took the container out

of the freezer, scooped out the seeds I wanted to sprout, put the container back

in the freezer...AND THEY SPROUTED PERFECTLY. So, after contacting various

sprouting companies I was advised to ALWAYS store any sprouting seeds of any

kind in the freezer and take out as needed.

So to answer your question, any seed that I have frozen and then sprouted,

SPROUTS PERFECTLY, no matter how long it's in the freezer.

Only when I tried to do sunnies, after taking out of the freezer, and trying to

grow in NOTHING but water in a tray with holes, well the sunnies did nothing.

The pea shoots are fine, they are shooting up (but it took a week longer).

So to make it easier, from now on, I'll just grow my microgreens (sunnnies, pea

shoots, flax and chia) in the sure to grow mat, or in coir.

So, I now store ALL kinds of sprouting seeds in the freezer. I just have ice

cubes, cold packs and sprouting seeds now in the freezer.

I hope I got it right this time. lol

Melody

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> Have you sprouted the frozen ones since you froze them?  I thought that the

batch didn't do well as you tried it in air. 

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> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:44 PM

> Subject: Re: Sunnies & Broccoli sprouts

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> For me, it's just takes too long to do them without any kind of medium. So I

now have the mats. I follow the directions. They sprout BEAUTIFULLY. I will

continue to freeze the seeds because to me, it gives me peace of mind.

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Thanks for clarifying that for me.  I need to get mine in there.  I will

likely have to clean out the freezer as I don't have a lot of room.  I probably

also have some that are freezer burned as I didn't have the Food Saver then. 

Now what goes in there needs to be vacuumed down. 

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 9:30 AM

Subject: Re: Sunnies & Broccoli sprouts

 

Carolyn:

I'm obviously not being clear. I have frozen ALL of my sprouting seeds for

YEARS. I initially froze them for two weeks (sunnies included) and then put them

in my lock and lock containers and stored them in a cool place. But with my

sunnies, when I froze them for two weeks and then took them out, then the bugs

came out. This has never happened with any of the other seeds I took out. But I

rarely took any of the other seeds out anyway. I just took the container out of

the freezer, scooped out the seeds I wanted to sprout, put the container back in

the freezer...AND THEY SPROUTED PERFECTLY. So, after contacting various

sprouting companies I was advised to ALWAYS store any sprouting seeds of any

kind in the freezer and take out as needed.

So to answer your question, any seed that I have frozen and then sprouted,

SPROUTS PERFECTLY, no matter how long it's in the freezer.

Only when I tried to do sunnies, after taking out of the freezer, and trying to

grow in NOTHING but water in a tray with holes, well the sunnies did nothing.

The pea shoots are fine, they are shooting up (but it took a week longer).

So to make it easier, from now on, I'll just grow my microgreens (sunnnies, pea

shoots, flax and chia) in the sure to grow mat, or in coir.

So, I now store ALL kinds of sprouting seeds in the freezer. I just have ice

cubes, cold packs and sprouting seeds now in the freezer.

I hope I got it right this time. lol

Melody

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> Have you sprouted the frozen ones since you froze them?  I thought that the

batch didn't do well as you tried it in air. 

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> Carolyn Wilkerson

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> To: sproutpeople

> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:44 PM

> Subject: Re: Sunnies & Broccoli sprouts

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> For me, it's just takes too long to do them without any kind of medium. So I

now have the mats. I follow the directions. They sprout BEAUTIFULLY. I will

continue to freeze the seeds because to me, it gives me peace of mind.

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> Melody

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Sure has air curculation as each tray is up above the previous one. 

Interesting.

 

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 9:55 AM

Subject: Re: Sunnies & Broccoli sprouts

 

Hi Melody

I've just started my second batch of sunnies. This time I am using what is

called a 'European sprouter' on sproutpeople. It's a bit better than one of

those sproutpeople discuss, as it has good air circulation. Here's an image:

http://www.juiceland.co.uk/media/images/product_detail/geo_sprouter_detail.jpg

So far so good, they're behaving the same way as the ones I grew on mixed

vermiculite/compost.

Having read up on sproutpeople, somewhere was mentioned about the channels on

these sprouters retaining water... making them more successful for crops like

sunnies (and less successful for the greens which wouldn't be happy to sit in a

channel of water). I'd agree; they do need a good tilt and shake for a couple of

minutes after watering. I 'over populated' a tray with broccoli and noticed it

was harder to drain it efficiently; as a result about a quarter of the seeds

didn't germinate properly.

I'm just wondering if they trays you are growing the sunnies in without medium

(such as your coir), aren't allowing the seeds to remain good and moist? If they

lack any sort of water retention channels it could possibly be a factor? Just a

thought, anyway .

I'll let you know how the sunnies get on and whether they taste as nice done in

a sprouter without medium. Sproutpeople say no, they're inferior in taste!

Charlotte

> Only when I tried to do sunnies, after taking out of the freezer, and trying

to grow in NOTHING but water in a tray with holes, well the sunnies did nothing.

The pea shoots are fine, they are shooting up (but it took a week longer).

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> So to make it easier, from now on, I'll just grow my microgreens (sunnnies,

pea shoots, flax and chia) in the sure to grow mat, or in coir.

> Melody

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Charlotte. hi!!!

I know exactly what you mean when you say they might not have retained the

moisture. I had them in a container with drainage holes and THAT container sat

in another container with an inch of water so the root mass would stay hydrated.

Didn't make a bit of difference. But the pea shoots did shoot up so I guess in

my case, I need a medium.

But my landlord came in today and she was telling me about her pea shoots in the

back yard and I was showing her my Chia.

And then I went to my beautician who is also a close friend and she is now

growing fenugreek and don't ask what happened when I started to tell " do you

know that you can sprout lentils " .

lol lol lol

Spreading the word!!!

Melody

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> > Only when I tried to do sunnies, after taking out of the freezer, and trying

to grow in NOTHING but water in a tray with holes, well the sunnies did nothing.

The pea shoots are fine, they are shooting up (but it took a week longer).

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> > So to make it easier, from now on, I'll just grow my microgreens (sunnnies,

pea shoots, flax and chia) in the sure to grow mat, or in coir.

> > Melody

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