Lilies: Lily seed giveaway 2008, 1 by Leftwood

Leftwood wrote:
Non-autodefrosting freezer storage long term is best. Constant freezing and thawing is not good. Remember my "Bad Frig, Bad Frig, whatchya gonna do?" thread? I went to search for it, but came up with : The site is moving fairly slowly recently so I have temporarily disabled this search feature. from Dave. You can find it later.

"Experts" say lily seed loses significant viability at 8-9 months at room temp., but it has got to be variable, and according to species too. It is also as you would think regarding cooler temps above freezing, the cooler the temperature, the less degradation. This is all assuming the seed is dry. This brings up a story in which I will digress momentarily:
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When candling seed, has anyone had the static electricity problem? Sometimes it can get so bad on my lighted tracer that that I can't pick up a seed because it keeps jumping away from my fingers! (This is only an illustration of other problems that arise.)

So every so often I mist the area to ground things. Once, I apparently repackaged seed in a plastic baggy when they were not sufficiently dry, and look what happened! (see pic below) A seed started germinating in the bag! (The darker part is actually green.) Seed that isn't moist enought to germinate, but is still moist, I am sure is not a good thing either.
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My lily seed came out of the deep freeze a week ago, and is stored in the frig, going in and out, while I do sorting for what I want to plant now through spring.