Using 2 year old Jiffy Peat Pellets

16 years ago

hello,

I have some jiffy peat pellets which are 3 years old and some which are a year old. Can I still use them for seed starting? or should I buy new peat pellets. They were stored in a cool dry place, so they are not soggy or damaged in any way.

Any suggestions recommended. I did use the search function, but could not find any older posts about this topic.

thanks.

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Comments (4)

oilpainter
16 years ago
Sure you can use them
digdirt2
16 years ago
Here you go. You can use them if you want to but if you read through some of these you may change your mind.

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: Peat Pellet discussions
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tn_veggie_gardner
16 years ago
Yea, as long as they have not gotten wet/soaked by anything other than water, moldy, etc., you should still be able to use them. Just rememeber to remove that netting & pot up sooner than normal (as soon as root start to show on bottom of pellet) and you will be fine. =)
shabbu
Original Author
16 years ago
Great!!, then i will go ahead and use them. I had lots of them left over from last year and didn't want them to go to waste.
Dave thanks for the link, not sure why other people had problems. I have had great success with peat pellets. As soon as I see germination in the pellets, I put them under lights for 3-4 weeks and then transplant the plants (after removing all netting) into plastic cups filled with seed starter mix and leave them under lights , till I am ready to plant outside.