Re: moldy sunnys

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I just use simple bowls and earth friendly almond dish

soap to wash them with between sprout rinses. It's

colder where I'm at, and I sometimes use water that is

a bit warmer to facilitate quicker sprouting. So far,

I haven't had any mold.. I can't use chlorine because

it hurts my throat to inhale even a little bit of it.

But temperature may be a factor. Also, I drape a

paper towel over the bowls during sprouting to keep

airborn particles from going into them.

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--- Diane and Uecker <sunflowr@...>

wrote:

> Just as a side note, are you sure it was mold and

> not the tiny tiny

> roots of the plants? How was the temperature in the

> room? Too warm can

> do it. I have noticed that once I switched to

> growing sunnys on Baby

> Blanket and stopped using soil, the sunnys turn out

> great. I have even

> reused the baby blanket by letting it dry out and

> sort of pulling out

> the old roots and soaking it in 3% peroxide. I have

> not had to sterilize

> seeds yet, but most of my seeds come from

> Sproutpeople. I have the best

> luck with their products. Only one failure and that

> was white lentils,

> those just got moldy and smelly after one day. I am

> not familiar with

> your type of sprouter, but try, try again seems to

> be the mantra of us

> sprouters. Diane

>

> Mark wrote:

>

> >Mold spores are everywhere. Sorry folks, but if you

> don't sterilize first (chlorine bleach, H2O2 or

> maybe GSE) you're just feeding all those yummy

> sprouts to the garbage can.

> >

> >

> >>I suspect that under the conditions you describe,

> the mold probably

> >>originated on the infected seeds themselves.

> >>

> >>Bob

> >>

> >> Re: Digest Number

> 811

> >>

> >>

> >>I harvested my first lot of sprouts with my

> Freshlife Sprouter. I

> >>harvested Pea sprouts, Fenugreek, wheat and Mung

> beans. In my 2nd barrel

> >>(which was on the bottom) I had Sunflower seeds

> and alflalfa. I went to

> >>take the black disk off the alflalfa and Sunflower

> seeds and everything

> >>was moldy. Considering it's been only 3 days, and

> I changed the water

> >>TWICE a day (I used filtered water) I am not

> happy.

> >>

> >>Sharon

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