OSR germ

[Nitrams]

Im planning to drill some 12 mnth old leftover osr seed tomorrow. Any ideas or best guesses as to how much the germ may have dropped by?
Tia

 

[B'o'B]

Im planning to drill some 12 mnth old leftover osr seed tomorrow. Any ideas or best guesses as to how much the germ may have dropped by?
Tia

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!

 

[Nitrams]

Not by tomorrow. Obv could wait but wanted to get it in

 

[B'o'B]

Not by tomorrow. Obv could wait but wanted to get it in

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.

 

[Adeptandy]

Mine is a year old and looks like everyone has grown, but no treatment in it as HSS

 

[Nitrams]

Well stored, its certified hybrid, so is dressed.

 

[robbie]

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]

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

 

[B'o'B]

Well stored, its certified hybrid, so is dressed.

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

 

[Nitrams]

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]

Do you think the dressing will definitly of dropped the germ over 12 mnths?

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.