Are Floating Seeds Dead?

I've always been told that if a seed floats it won't germinate but seeing as a whole lot of my seeds floated this year I decided to test it out. Surely the seeds that I harvested last season and stored properly can't almost all be dead can they?

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[cooltoonist]

a straightforward textbook example on this myth. thanks for empirically testing this.

[JM.TheComposer]

The video editing and synchronization with the Sugar Plum Fairies music is really underrated. Great video!

[jacqueschannel]

Wow, these videos are helpful for everyone！ You saved everyone’s time, thank you for doing these videos and keep on making these

[Chiefwizard]

Behalf of all new gardeners thank you.

[generalawareness]

I have a bunch of unopened seed packs for the 2009 growing season my mum gave me. I planted about 24 of the Eggplants and none came up. I just threw the rest of the packet into the water and only a few floated. A bit strange, so I swirled them around knowing surface tension has something to do with it when dealing with very light seeds, and all but one sank then I swirled them around again where all sank. I will check on them in 12h.

[DrewVerdin]

I absolutely love yours style of videos 😍

[slicktmi]

Thank you for all these educational videos!

[gforcekaras]

You're awesome. Love these mythbusters!

[mollypitcher]

Really?!?! That’s great news! You’re such a scientist!!!!🌸🌻🍁

[tbluemel]

Origami seed sandwich!!! Too funny! Thank you for dispelling this myth!

[TheHighPriestess]

I just have to subscribe to hear your voice as well as getting tidbits for gardening 101.

[EvendimataE]

thats what i thought too...i just ate an orange and float tested the seeds...4 seeds floated...but i was wondering how can they be bad, they are from a fresh orange

[ohmythatsweird]

It really depends on how much fibre you eat

[caeleeschoeman]

oh thank god, , all my seeds floated I thought I had to trow all of them out 😭

[vivekn]

Dod the floating seeds imbibe water and swell

[Gardenfundamentals]

I am writing a blog post on this myth on my gardenmyths.com blog. I'd like to include a your video. Can you tell me what kinds of seeds you tested?

[tolgagurcimen]

20min is not enough... 24 hours is sufficient.

[davidhead]

If you're not a professional documentarian, you should be.🙂