Re: seed storage

I might add one more idea. I am a desultory stamp collector and I have a lot of little glassine envelopes. I have had good luck using them as well. I use a little patch of Scotch tape to hold the flap closed but I do not seal them completely.
Leaving them out to dry for a period sounds like a good idea to me.

I have contracted a rather jaundiced view of collecting seeds from plants I have because I no longer have any confidence in the fertilization process. I suspect a lot of the seeds wind up as hybrids because the birds, moths etc don't know how to do it properly and I suspect they don't care. So who knows where the pollen has come from. It is even worse with bromeliads because I suspect all the genera can be crossbred to any other genus! And what does that do to the concept of genus and family in bromeliads? ---Chas---
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We use the Kodak film containers which are normally thrown away after the films have gone for developing. Now everyone has gone digital, these are becoming increasingly hard to get. Like Charles says, you have to get the damp out of the seeds  first, not to mention the things with lots of legs which eat or make webs out of the seeds, so we leave the collections on butchers meat display trays in the shed for a few weeks .  All the canisters are colour coded for the year the seeds were collected, some have lasted twelve years with their viability unimpaired.












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