I have never tried storing dry seed inside, but I think I will try it. We do have air conditioning (not in Florida) but pretty close. I think if they were in a paper bag they would be fine.

I found it fascinating to read about how everyone stores and sprouts their seeds.

Living in sub-tropical South-East Queensland, Australia, I've never tried refrigerating any seeds.

With my daylily seeds, once harvested, I basically place them in a baggie straight away, with damp perlite (labelled of course with the parent plant ID and date) and place on my north-facing kitchen windowsill. I get an almost 95% germination rate within a month, if not less.

My only problem is knowing which plant they were crossed with, as I do no hand-pollination myself.
Each new plant will be a surprise.

I plant my seeds in the month of MAY into the soil . And some germinate over the next 3 months . I have a lot of seeds so I really just wait them out , lol. I'm in zone 5b and still get some 2 year olds to bloom . Starting ahead makes no benefit to me here , and the cost is way too much .

Seedfork said: I stratify my seeds, and I expect them to be up and running in a month. But, I think three months would be my absolute limit to wait on any seed to sprout.

This is pretty much my method, too. I start in my basement in early February, and can't get planted here safely until around Mother's Day. So they have that long to keep trying, and they run out of time on planting day.

I've often wondered if they just needed warmer soil temperatures to get started (if they weren't just duds to begin with, like Sue suggested). So this year, I had two reciprocol crosses of dark blooming DLs. No seed from either cross germindated. Instead of giving up on them on seedling planting day, I might sift those seeds out and directly sow them into part of the seedling bed to see if they will germinate when the soil is in the upper 60s or 70's. Can't hurt to try it.