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sandy0225 · 11-11-2012, 02:18 PM

I don't know about how long the seeds stay viable, but I purchased some ensete seed in 2011 in the fall, put them on heat in the basement and only a couple came up over winter. So I took them off heat and put them out in the greenhouse all summer. They didn't come out there and I was cleaning it out in the end of spring and didn't know what to do with them, so I just piled up the flats under the bench in the big greenhouse all summer. Well about a month ago I noticed that one of the lids had came off the flats, and I was cleaning up so I was going to throw them out when I noticed some of them had sprouted and tried to grow over the summer sometime, but then they had died because they didn't have any light. I got kind of disgusted with myself for not checking them, and set them on the bench. One of the ghostly white dead looking ones came back to life, and several more are sprouting now. So don't give up on them too soon. This is about a year after I originally planted them.

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