On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:14:43 +0000, Ollie Clark wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 03:36:28 +0000, amazure ²°°³ wrote:
> 
>> After 1000 Years in perfect conditions but *not* frozen, what
>> percentage would still be viable? 1.0% ?
>> 0.1% ?
>> 0.0001 % ?
> 
> None. If you want to store seeds for that long you have to grow them out
> periodically and collect new seeds.
> 

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	I don't keep that many on hand anymore for more than 5 or 6 years 
tops, on the 7th year I harvest fresh seeds and that will give me more 
than enough for another 5 or 6 years.
	But the site you referenced isn't the only one doing the very 
same thing, it's being done all over the planet, I use to have a link to 
a place above the artice circle that they have a seed bank inside of a 
mountain of ice and they say if it "did" lose power it would take 20 
years for the temp. to get above freezing.
	Freezing is the better way to go for most seeds.