Re: question for Ew and anyone who can help

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We have sunnies growing right now that will be harvested soon for our first

trial, they are the walmart bird seed sunnies. They are growing beautifuly!

 

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To: sproutpeople

Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 7:51 AM

Subject: Re: question for Ew and anyone who can help

 

Charlotte,

I am certainly with you on the sunflower seeds. I buy seeds in 50# bags to fill

my bird feeders. One day I contacted the grower and asked about using them for

sprouts. I was told that they were not organic, but were fit for human

consumption. He told me that he had been contacted by many people about

sprouting and knew of several that do. Even some of his employes. I don't use

them any more because I can get cleaner seeds at a local farm store for a good

price.

ew

Re: question for Ew and anyone who can help

I'm going to (maybe) get shot down in flames here but after all the talk of bird

seed grade black oil sunnies I was reading a thread about them on the UK raw

food network. They were saying that these seeds were fine to sprout, just rinse

them extra well. So, I bought 100g (3 1/2 oz) to try out. I don't have extensive

testing equipment but I pinched some of the water testing stuff my husband uses

for his fish tank. None of the rinse water tested positive for anything like

acid, nitrates etc, and I gave them a ton of extra rinses. As far as I'm aware

from reading about the grubs in these seeds, nothing should be present within

the seeds (they chew out and drop into the soil rendering the seed damaged and

dead) and anything in with the seeds would rinse away... and on growing, nothing

would be actually within the shoots or leaves. I didn't find any grub damaged

seeds (I inspected them throroughly!), just a few mechanically damaged ones and

a very few rogue

seeds from other plants. They've grown beautifully, just as well as my

expensive organic seeds. There's more chance of finding grubs and flies in an

iceberg lettuce hehe. I'm happy to grow them, they may not be the top grade

seeds producing huge tasty sunnies but they're still pretty good.

Charlotte

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