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