OSR germ
- Thread starter Nitrams
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100 seeds on a tray with some wet paper towel put in a plastic bag somewhere warm will tell you better than any of us!
Your guess is as good as anyone’s. How well has it been stored? Is it treated? What moisture is it? Rape should hold its germ very well, but not if it’s stored damp.
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- the brecks norfolk
I've got some over yeared seed and despite it going a bit funky and getting infested with mite while being stored in an ibc I've germ tested it myself and it was over 80% but very slow to germinate
TheEarlOfMoray
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- Morayshire
Will be fine if it’s been kept dark and dry. I usually always have a bag left over from previous year and always grows fine
I’ll put a completely uneducated guess of 95%+. Even if you drill it tomorrow I’d still do a tray test to see what you will be dealing with in the field
Do you think the dressing will definitly of dropped the germ over 12 mnths?
Breakthru
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- Location
- Scottish Borders
Untreated kept well no problem. With dressing I would put as above 100 seeds on a piece of wet kitchen roll inside a poly bag next to the hot water tank. Only takes a few days. Couple of days delay cheaper than a disastrous germination.
If you decide to go ahead than increase seed rate by 30% to allow for non and slow germination.
Remember the problem years ago with spring osr not germinating. It was 2.
2 deep 2 dry 2 shallow 2 hard 2 soft but what the real problem was 2 much seed dressing antagonistic to the seed.
Amazing how it can grow in the cracks in concrete, in the middle of the motorway but give it a nice seedbed and the B stuff doesn't grow. A number of big growers up here used HSS with zero dressing for that reason.