How Long Can You Keep Orange Seeds Dry , BeFore Planting Them.?
Firstly, the dried orange seeds are not likely to germinate since drying causes injury to the seed. If you want to collect orange seeds to germinate, you need to take them straight from the ripe fruit and plant immediately into a sterilized potting mix or seed raising mix under warm conditions. You can also take the moist seeds, place them in plastic wrap or a bag, and store them in the refrigerator at 1-2 deg. C for at least four weeks before planting (this will increase the percentage of seeds that germinate). This process of keeping the seeds cool and moist is called stratification and replicates what happens in nature as the fallen fruit in autumn rot, the seeds go through a cold and moist spell through winter, and then germinate in spring when their chance of survival is greater.
