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[Seed Collector]

This is how I save strawberry seeds.

1.Pull green leafy parts off and discard them.

2. Skin the outer layer of strawberries, placing them [seed side up; cut side down] onto either paper plates, or cardboard.

3. [Dry the remaining strawberry flesh] I place paper plates or cardboard onto a fluorescent light setup for about 3-4 days.

4. Scrape the seeds from the dried berry flesh with a coin, guitar pick, fingernail, ect. (ensuring the seeds are collected into a giant bowl when they fall from the paper plates).

5. Air out the seeds for a few extra days, then them bag them or jar them.

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[Seed Collector]

Here's a picture of the de-seeded, dried strawberry fruit skins, after everything is done.

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[Carnival]

Very nice, I'll have to give this a try next time I have good strawberries.

My great-grandfather always froze his strawberry seeds, taking care not to let them get damp, and that seemed to really help the germination rate. He'd put the seeds in a ziploc bag, freeze them overnight, and then sew them. Google apparently agrees with his method.

Thanks for the tek!
~THomas

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[BigHeart]

Nice write up 

As a suggestion to those of us with dehydrators, you can put the pieces in your dehydrator and have them ready in under 12 hours depending on how good your dehydrator is. 

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[Greench]

As a suggestion to those of us with dehydrators, you can put the pieces in your dehydrator and have them ready in under 12 hours depending on how good your dehydrator is.

I don't know how all dehydrators work, but my dehydrator gets warm..something like 60°C warm I think. From which temperature can it become a problem for the viability of the seeds?

@Seed Collector: are these easy to germinate? I have always used stolons, never seeds.
I have strawberries in my garden that I haven't picked. They're both rotten and frozen right now. I assume the seeds are viable... How should I proceed to recover them?

Cheers!

[ONandONandON]

As a suggestion to those of us with dehydrators, you can put the pieces in your dehydrator and have them ready in under 12 hours depending on how good your dehydrator is.

I don't know how all dehydrators work, but my dehydrator gets warm..something like 60°C warm I think. From which temperature can it become a problem for the viability of the seeds?

@Seed Collector: are these easy to germinate? I have always used stolons, never seeds.
I have strawberries in my garden that I haven't picked. They're both rotten and frozen right now. I assume the seeds are viable... How should I proceed to recover them?

Cheers!

Only guessing (this works well for tomato seeds) you could try,
-pick the strawberries,
-thaw them out,
-remove the layer with the seeds
-put into a jar of water with a lid
-shake
-let seeds settle to bottom
-pour off pulpy water
-add more water and
-repeat until mostly clean of pulp
-pour out water and
-spread seeds on tissue paper to dry
-i tear up the paper into pieces

Maybe 

Anyway, i've always wondered about that, AWE+=SUM info SeedCollector thanks!  And you get fruit jerky, COOL.

[Greench]

Thanks for the tips
I tried thawing them but in fact they were also kind of dried.
I put in a lidded jar with some cold water, shook and double-filtered. I used two different meshes, one slightly larger and another slightly smaller than the seeds.
For the seeds still attached to the fruits after that, I put everything in the blender with some cold water, I ran it for 30 secs and double-filtered again.
I recovered most of the seeds like this. 
Hopefully, the blender hasnt damaged these... time will tell.

[FewTrueSeed]

I freeze my strawberries and then put them into the blender with water. After burred up let it settle drink the fluid and the seeds will be at the bottom of your drink. Little to no pulp left.