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I just looked up this thread. Iām fishing for information about keeping onion seeds. I bought a couple of packs that I would like to last longer than a year without greatly decreased germination. I was thinking that freezing would probably help out, I didnāt think much about the extra moisture. I was just going to throw the seed packs in a quart freezer Ziplock and call it goodā¦Iām glad I looked here too. Not much info on the Google about freezing seeds.
onion seed is one of the few seeds that just isnt viable after a year or so. better off to plant some everbearing bunching onions, egyptian walking onions and potato onions that can survive the winter or be harvested and some saved to replant the next spring.
Have you tried freezing onion seed? I had some scallion seeds from last year that I kept in a unheated part of the basement (same place I keep all my seeds) and under no official count I would think maybe ~30% germinated. I think I am going to give it a go and try test viability around Jan 1st. That will give me plenty of time to order more if I need. A pack of seeds is till about the same price as a few pounds of onions on sale, but I would like to reuse them if I can seeing I donāt think I even used 1/3 of each seed pack
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no i havenāt but its worth a try. i just know if you store them the regular way they donāt grow.
I just sowed some onion seeds: Mercury red from 2017 and Utah Yellow Sweet Spanish from 2018. Obviously, I donāt know how the germination will be this year; but my seed database notes say āgood germinationā for both. Of course, I donāt expect anything near 100%, probably closer to 10 or 20%; but the seeds are still usable after 7 or 8 years stored in a freezer unsealed. Of course, back in those days, seed packets contained a lot more seeds than they do today; so, high germination was not as important.