Thanks, Natalie, but I think it might have been a wacky idea! And it might work just as well with two fingertips instead of a piece of rubber mat. Or maybe fingertips in rubber gloves.
Say - when the seeds are still in the pod, are they all aligned? maybe you could "pinch them out of the pod" in some way that de-fluffs many of them in one step.
>> The only problem I see is that I'd have to line up all the seeds, which would take more time than just pulling the fluff off by hand.
Probably true. I was thinking that randomly, some fluff would stick out each time you plopped down the 6" piece, and many random repetitions would eventually get them all.
At least you'll be able to separate them by just pouring the mix from bowl to bowl. The clean seeds will drop straight down, and the fluffy ones will fly all over your living room rug.
I know! Let's ask
@JonnaSudenius how
she cleans seeds with fluffy tails! Her seeds from
http://www.seedsite.eu/ are always extremely clean.
Natalie said:
... pods of showy milkweed seeds
