salad spinner sunflower failure

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ok, clearly i need some additional nfo on sprouting sunflowers in a

salad spinner as mine did not turn out well. btw, i'm interested in

sprouting sunflower greens, just to make sure i'm on the right page

with this.

i soaked my sunflower seeds overnight, drained them and placed them

in the inner basket inside of my salad spinner. i rinsed them 2 or 3

times that first day. the second day i could see some sprouts

emerging but it didn't smell good inside the salad spinner. there's

no light or air inside the spinner so i thought maybe the seeds were

beginning to rot. i took off the lid and continued rinsing 2 to 3

times a day but to no avail, they never really grew anymore. RIP.

i know they need darkness to germinate and i confess the odor threw

me off. maybe they smell that way in dirt too and i just don't know

it. i'd really like to be able to sprout sunflower greens in my salad

spinner as opposed to tending to them in flats downstairs, especially

in the winter.

can someone get me on the right track with this??

thanks,

karron

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>Yes Karron, I do mung, chick peas, sunflower, peas, lentils etc in them..

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