SUNFLOWER Microgreen Seed Comparison!

🤔If you've gone to buy Sunflower Microgreen seeds from our favorite seed source since the pandemic started, you may have noticed that not only do they have Black Oil Sunflower Microgreen seeds...but they also have some listed as "Sunflower Microgreens Seeds"

➡️The reason they started selling these is because they were having issues with getting the popular Black Oil Sunflower Seeds due to Covid related issues. We wanted to know is there any difference in the growth, taste or appearance of the Regular seeds growth vs the Popular Black Oil seeds? So we bought the seeds, put them to the test and made this new YouTube video on it!

It's been awhile since we've put out new experiments! But we are back y'all 🥳 and we've got a lot more coming! Hope you enjoy this new video!

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[willscholten]

Great video! You touched on it, but the black seed have more finished weight, because there were more seeds, so more tops!

[jondog]

Sunflowers are everyone's favorite in my little circle of friends.
A tip for trimming the shoots off the tray: Get your face down level with your blade and I think you'll find better accuracy, and less soil of whatever media you use.
I've had moisture just under the canopy of my sunflowers in the winter time. I rub the tops twice daily to control that, and of course a bunch of hulls will pop off at the same time.

[kopidantanaman]

Nice one! Thank you for always inspiring us to keep on growing 🌻

[TitusMidwife]

I absolutely love your channel! I am a new grower and you have done a lot of the trial and error for me plus done the how-to’s.

[watermelonlalala]

Glad to hear they tasted about the same because I have a lot of gray striped seeds and no black oil. I thought the regular sunflower seeds looked better than the black oil in your test, and the difference between the two in final weight is very small.

[shalomstark]

Your videos address every question/concern, the best!

[akindofmagick]

This is so timely!! I am about to order 25# of sunflower seeds tonight!! Thank you!!

[raghunandanraman]

Exactly the video I needed!! Thanks :)

[onwardandupward-tg]

good morning was watching your farmers market experience video... you said you wanted to do more vlog/experience type of video's and she wanted to do cooking ... both are great ideas! please try do do one or two more b/ you went back to experimenting stuff... the farmers market video and you moving you trailer were great and a nice change of pace for the viewers

[elliejones]

Thanks for the vid and growing inspiration! You’ve led me to trial odd edible veg plants as microgreens - weirdly butternut squash microgreens taste like runner beans! 🤣

[drpk]

The difference in weight between these two is less than 5% and the replicate was "One".
There is no statically significant difference between them.

[jennw]

Hey here's what I'd like to see more videos on: how to get good results growing in biostrate. I have had pretty mediocre results and I know from some of your older videos you mentioned you had to dial in your methods to get good results in hydroponic mediums. But I don't think you ever shared those tips, please do!!!

[PaulLeMay]

Thank you for sharing. I actually like growing regular sunflower compared to black oil seed but I can not find them here in Canada.

[somenonamefarm]

ALWAYS a pleasure to watch your videos! *goes to buy Black Oil from TLM

[sgtcannaboid]

I’m addicted to your channel . Do you have a link to your trailer? Grow on!!!

[tristinchristenson]

I believe size is the reason black oil seeds are used in birds seed. Great video

[flyshacker]

Nice comparison test! My question is why is the word OIL in the name “black OIL sunflower”?? Any ideas? I also want to say that I learned something. I am a hobbyist grower, and I never knew that the leaves after the cotyledons are called “true leaf”. So that explains the name of “True Leaf Market”. Anyway, I hope someone will post about why “OIL” is in the name of “black OIL sunflowers”. Thanks!

[TZTreadle]

Hu. Thanks for all the awesome how to do microgreens. How do you store your harvest?

[MSMotivations]

Experiment suggestion with sunflower black oil seeds:
keep the weight on one tray for 3 days 1 blackout keep the weight on 1 tray for 4 days and no blackout.
I accidentally left the weight on my sunflower seeds for 4 days and they were so strong and thick that I was able to get a 600% return on sewing rate.

Smoothie recipe:
2 cups of sunflower micrograms
1 peeled & chopped Bosc pear
1cup of water
1 Stevie packet
2 Tbsp raw honey
1 cup crushed ice
Blend in a vacuum blender

[kingofkleen]

So now we have small black oil seeds. Does that mean they would yield a more dense harvest with small cotyledons?