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Aug 24, 2022Liked by Gavin Mounsey

Fantastic !! I have been sitting on a pound of dried elderberries for awhile now trying to decide the best way to use them for a healthful concoction.... and yah, maybe my kombucha would love an infusion as well. this is the best article on elderberry I have found to date. You are a great writer, please keep 'em coming... If you are interested, I can swap you some elderberry seeds for recently harvested moringa seeds ... not sure of your zone...

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Thank you very much for the kind and thoughtful comment. I would love to do a seed swap :) We are in zone 6 so I would have to grow the Moringa in pots but I do have a large south facing window I could use for over wintering the plant(s) inside so it is worth a try.

I am so glad you found my article to be helpful.

If you email me at recipes4reciprocity@gmail.com we can exchange info for sending seeds :)

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Aug 24, 2022Liked by Gavin Mounsey

.... um.... but I guess that since I have berries, I must already have seeds ! regardless, moringa seeds are yours if you are interested... :)

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Aug 27, 2022·edited Aug 27, 2022Author

With regards to your dried elderberries and saving seed, the seeds may not be viable if they were dried using an artificial heat source (like a dehydrator). Do you happen to know how they were dried? (Dehydrators are the most common mechanism used for drying store bought elderberries)

Even if they were put through a dehydrator machine it is possible the living embryo inside the seed survived, I have never tried germinating seeds from dehydrated elderberries so I am not 100% sure but when I have tried germinating other seeds that went through a dehydrator (like peppers and goji berries) the seeds were not viable.

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Aug 29, 2022Liked by Gavin Mounsey

ahhh.... very interesting... Retailers probably use as high a heat as they can without destroying the product ... so, yah... not reliable for germinating. Now I am wondering if I have dried any of my own seeds in my dehyrdrator, even on low... :) the moringa dried on the tree, in the pod... I waited for them to start falling out on their own...

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