Probably a stupid question but today I had another batch of these seeds and wondered again.. these seeds with dark spots, are they ok to preserve or are they bad ones?
My instinct says they are not ok but I let them dry all together anyway and so far I've kept them, you probably know a lot about this stuff so might as well ask you @riverflows :)
I wouldn't know actually... Maybe @goldenoakfatm would.
Intuition tells me to chuck them.
I think there's a typo? @goldenoakfarm ..
It's not hard to remove them in the end, but if someone has advice, I appreciate it. I'm going to find some time this weekend to hopefully plant some seeds (if the circumstances are ideal that is, often in the weekend we have big winds, which is not ideal at this floor, lol).
I'm not one to pretest seed before planting. I buy good quality seed and store it properly for the general length of time that type of seed tends to last. The paprika seed I used got left out of proper storage conditions last year for too long and that's why there was a problem with it.
If I think the seed might be iffy, I just put in more seeds and thin the weak ones.