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I am so impressed with this product. The product right out of the bag had a humidity of about 7%.
I took some pelleted (also treated with a fungicide) seeds I had left over from my failure of growing spinach and THOUGHT they were a reduced humidity being stored in with some flower desiccant. After getting my humidity meters I found otherwise.
I added "equal weight" (I ball-parked) of beads to seeds and the humidity dropped to 10%. Beads are in the wash cloth for easy removal. I then removed the beads and sealed the jar with my Foodsaver attachment for canning jars. I now can store this in my house without refrigeration!
The label on this lid is wrong. I put a sticker on it after the photo with the correct information.
Below is another experiment I am working on. The jar adjusted to under 10% humidity with the beads.
I dip into this jar of summer seeds a lot. Canning jars are too difficult for me to get the seed packets and my hand into. Humidity went up to about 22% after the jar was opened and closed several times. It is now maintaining 18% humidity level as shown below without re-drying the beads. Very exciting.
The goal is 100. Humidity plus temperature = 100.
My house is 82º and the humidity in the jar is 18% and that equals 100.
Below shows the current humidity of the house at 56% and our temperature is 82º.
82 plus 56 equal 138.
