What Seed is This?

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What Seed is This?

Post by cindy » Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:02 am

Rummy seems to really this and picks it out of the Mayan Harvest by Higgins.
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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by debbie276 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:10 am

looks like buckwheat to me
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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by cindy » Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:13 am

Thank you Debbie...It has a funny smell to it and is sort of triangle in shape. Rummy searches these out along with the dried gooseberries.

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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by debbie276 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 8:55 am

I used to sprout them for the finches, it's the only way they would eat them and boy did they go for them.
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http://www.naturallighting.com/cart/sto ... sc_page=56

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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by cindy » Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:01 am

Funny, I line them up and he walks down the line eating them like candy!!

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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by DanteD716 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:45 pm

I agree, looks like a dark buckwheat. Glad Rummy likes them :lol:
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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by cindy » Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:00 pm

He dives into the mix and tried to find every one of them...I use them to get him to do commands....bribes!!!!!

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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by DanteD716 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:09 pm

=)) I'm picturing it now. :lol: :lol: Well jsut go out and buy a bag of buckwheat to bribe him now!
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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by cindy » Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:17 pm

where do you buy yours?

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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by DanteD716 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:39 pm

I don't know if you have tops supermarket in Florida, but it has bins of seed that can be scooped and bagged by you and you weigh it
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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by finchmix22 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:51 pm

Dante,
Tops? Never heard of that store. Is it an healthfood or organic type store?
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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by debbie276 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:56 pm

I got mine from a farm seed catalog, it's a cover crop. Hancock seed sells it as well as many others, just do a buckwheat seed web search.
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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by cindy » Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:05 pm

I will have to check with Nancy!

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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by DanteD716 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:06 pm

finchmix22 wrote: Dante,
Tops? Never heard of that store. Is it an healthfood or organic type store?
No, it is a large supermarket here. But I have not been innside one in a while. It is gross. I prefer walmart. :lol:
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Re: What Seed is This?

Post by cindy » Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:20 am

Has anyone soaked or sprouted buckwheat?

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