Yasaibatake's Blog

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Oct 16, 2007 | 9:20 PM PST
Tags: banana peppers , float test

A little while back, a co-worker gave me some banana peppers from her own garden. I pulled the seeds out of there and let them dry and whatnot. My dad, who grew all the produce for his family when he was growing up (there were 6 kids, so that meant a lot of produce!), said that if I dumped all the seeds in a bowl of water, the viable seeds would float to the top and the duds would sink. What would make a dud seed more dense than a viable seed? I have no idea. But I dumped everything I pulled out from the peppers into a big bowl of water, and sure enough, some of them floated and some of them sank. I totally should have planted some of the ones that sank, you know, like my own little science experiment, but I didn't think about that at the time and only saved the ones that were floating. Meh, I'm sure that wasn't the last time I'll plant anything from seed, lol!!! :) Anyways so I planted two of the floater seeds today (yes, only two...I replaced the two Buttons that didn't sprout...figured if the other three sprouted, those two should have as well. I should have put them in my bowl of water too!) and am quite curious to see what I'll get. You know, it probably would have been a whole heck of a lot smarter if I had looked up banana peppers to see if they require the same sunlight and everything that Buttons do...