Sprouting Temperature

[buscon]

Hi,

I'm starting sprouting by myself, i love mung beans and lentils :)

I'm trying to speed up the process, so I put some mung beans in a yogurt machine that keep around 40° Celsius/104° Fahrenheit
I was the sprouts quite often, they grow up in two days, they look quite good and have no strange smell.

Is it a safe method to grow sprouts ? Should I try to eat them ?

Thanks

[LadySapphira]

I have no idea, but good luck! Have you sprouted normally? I'm thinking about trying to sprout too, and was just wondering if this is working for you =)

[streetsurfer]

No need for the heat. Germinating seeds release their own heat and you instead, should be using cool filtered water when you rinse to cool them to lower risk of spoilage. Not adding heat Im afraid it also might help breed bacteria. Thats what making yogurt does, multiplies bacteria. Most seeds will sprout best between 65`-75`F. Germination rates generally drop off when going far beyond those temps. Fresh air/air movement and the drying and rewetting of the seeds will be all you should need for good success.

[SunshineMN]

I'll second that. The few times we've failed since starting sprouting was because of heat. We're using a bamboo dish drainer (got the idea from DebB) set inside a plastic storage bin I had sitting around. Typically we do 5 one quart jars but one week we tried 7 jars (meaning the jars were touching the jars around it instead of having a bit of space between each jar). Because the jars were touching and we were only rinsing twice a day, they overheated and started fermenting. We ended up throwing out half the sprouts that week.

Give your sprouts room to breathe and keep them cool with filtered water like streetsurfer said. We now rinse every 8 hours just to be on the safe side and dropped back to 5 jars though we could do 6 fine I just need to get one more wide mouth jar. Narrow mouth jars don't seem to allow very good ventilation or draining because of the shape of the top of the jar (doesn't let water escape even at a 45 degree angle).

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Hi,

I'm starting sprouting by myself, i love mung beans and lentils :)

I'm trying to speed up the process, so I put some mung beans in a yogurt machine that keep around 40° Celsius/104° Fahrenheit
I was the sprouts quite often, they grow up in two days, they look quite good and have no strange smell.

Is it a safe method to grow sprouts ? Should I try to eat them ?

Thanks

Sometimes alittle heat is very important for getting good sprouting results in cold climates. The heat will give certain sprouts (sesame) that little kick needed to get them started, if you don't do it they can have problems sprouting (take too long) and even rot.

A good way is to put them inside a box with some small battery operated 12 watt lights inside the closed box during the cold season. Cheap to do and very effective.