Just like sunflower seeds. Only sprout the hulled ones for 1, maybe 1.5 days. Any longer and they start to oxidize. I soak + sprout the unhulled ones for 2 days, then I grow em on soil to make the amazing sunflower greens.







Sunflower greens are one do the best foods you can possibly eat, they're only second to wheatgrass. Lots of amazing nutrients in sunflower greens, they're loaded with carotenoids, b vitamins, vitamin c, vitamin e, and lots of minerals like calcium, zinc, copper, magnesium, potassium, selenium, iron, phosphorous, etc, and also lots of enzymes, hormones, oxygen and other rare phytonutrients.

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I juice a big tray of sunflower greens almost everyday.

Some day I am going to sprout! Sounds wonderful. I love growing things - and if you can eat them - all the better.

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Why not start today? Procrastination never gets anything done.

It's best to sprout in jars with mesh, or trays, but really you can just sprout in a colander. Technically you can sprout in just about anything, the only issue is drainage. No special equipment needed if you're going to try it out small-scale, so why not buy some seed and sprout in a colander? Who knows, it might even be addictive and before you know it you'll have dozens of jars + trays going like me. But really, just 4 or 5 large jars is enough to give a normal person lots of sprouts, and it takes almost no effort to maintain just 5 jars.

Then when you get comfortable with it, you can try growing some wheatgrass or other microgreens. Life isn't complete until you're having a large tray of wheatgrass juice for breakfast every morning.

Yeah, but...

giving it some thought - I have been saving jars - not sure why, tho. Glad I did.

Mesh. Copper? Stainless?

Organic sprout seeds - I can handle. Planning a store run on Saturday *I am saving on gas, this way - budgetary restraints are killing me!

And I am watching this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSt0DmAPDm4

for some reason the link for youtube doesn't show anything

I have some broccoli sprouts in the fridge now that I add to my cabbage slaws....do they respout? I saw a women adding sprouts to the jar of water??? Huh?

No buts

The best mesh is actually plastic mesh, because metal eventually rusts. You should be able to buy it at your hardware store, but if not a local nursery should have it.

I do exactly what the girl in the link does (cut out mesh and fasten with rubber bands); sprouting lids are absurdly expensive when you can make your own for mere pennies. The only caveat is that I find alfalfa normally needs 5-6 days to sprout (not 3-4), although it depends on the temperature.

No. Maybe she was trying to remove the hulls by swishing them around in the water.

cool beans. thanks.

I tried that blood type diet and I have the book. I didn't really feel that much of a difference, although I did discover that I had a gluten intolerance and so it was helpful for that. I have been to Europe and ate bread and pasta there and had no problem. I think a lot of it has to do with the processing and the chemicals that are sprayed on the crops. And "they" claim they don't know what causes cancer or the countless other diseases out there. You don't have to be a genious to see the problem. Then again, there are an awful lot of blind people out there.