Made me look! :tongue_smilie:
The name is Eva-Dry Rechargeable Dehumidifier: the humidity strips go from 10 to 60% in steps of 10%. Both were bought online (inexpensively) from Amazon.com
reading alot of posts, links, etc leads me to conclude that VARIABILITY is the real danger, so my hope chest seems to be the ticket: dark, not fluctuating much humidity or temperature. I HOPE (
) that I correctly said a humidity strip IN the hope chest was still in the 20% spot, although higher than my crisper.
Somewhere, I read that mason jars (the type used for canning) were nigh-on air-proof. . . . . . . did not allow air exchange.
Since I don't happen to have any empty containers on hand and would have to go get them, I'm leaning toward them. . and asking my neighbor (who canned up to a few years ago) if she had a few w/lids that I could have.
So my new storage solution: 5 seeds in tiny ziplocks, all of one variety in a bigger ziplock, all of one type (tomato - indeterminant, determinant, dwarf; flower) in its own jar with a humidity strip, all jars in my hope chest with the electronicaly rechargeable dehumidifier. And next to the jars: a small notebook of catalogue / inventory of what /how much seed (of each variety) is in each jar.
one question: since seeds will die if dried TOO dry, do I need to put a small (I LIKE your idea of using an envelope!) bit of dessicant in each jar to MAINTAIN dryness. . . or wouldn't a dessicant so close dry the already dry seeds even more??
And, yes to a background in science. . . research in particular. Do I remember correctly that you have an engineering background?
