[Rebelbase]

I didn’t see within the article if any of the 142 year old seeds had germinated and matured.

[tennmountainman]

BenSucked by this worthless article.

[Deaf Smith]

Same as in W Texas, clear land of mesquite and dig up the roots.

Next Spring you will have Sunflowers that have to be bushhogged to allow grass to grow.

Disking deep can also bring up long dormant, unwanted weed seeds.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...it was decided in 1980 that the bottles would be unearthed every 20 years...”
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1980
2000
2020
...did any germinate?
...and what kind of seeds are they?

[Getready]

Those seeds were not pushin’ to hard to germinate....maybe that’s why no report yet.

[iowamomforfreedom]

From NPR: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/21/989333092/the-secret-mission-to-unearth-part-of-a-142-year-old-experiment

[snuffy smiff]

Watch as wHitler shuts this down, too!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Nothing in this field is easy or quick. Resuscitating ancient seeds is profoundly difficult and there are few who have mastered it.

One great success was from one such master who managed to revive a single, 2000 year old seed from a Judean date palm, long thought extinct, that had been discovered at Masada.

https://www.touchpointisrael.com/2018/05/04/ancient-date-palm-grown-from-2000-year-old-seed-found-at-masada/

[DiogenesLamp]

I seem to recall reading that they have grown grains from thousands of years old seeds recovered from ancient Egyptian sites.

142 years? Phffffftttt!

[Born to Conserve]

Bottles of booze, properly sealed; that would be a good experiment for gentlemen.

[SunkenCiv]

As they reached the end of the experiment — the original burial of jars of seeds only amounted to 12 jars — it was decided to continue the experiment by breaking up the last one or two into smaller batches, smaller containers, and extending the period a bit, if memory serves. It continues as the longest-running botany experiment ever done, and will probably continue to hold that record until we’ve become an interplanetary species.