Tennessee Red Peanut Seeds for Planting, 20 Peanut Seeds Per Packet, (Isla's Garden Seeds), Non GMO Seeds, Botanical Name: Arachis hypogaea, Fun Home Garden Gift

Picture taken on day two of soaking!

TLDR: bad germination rates! I bought this 3 times and got only 2 plants! Might be my fault somehow. Too expensive. I got better results with another vendor and breed of peanut. After 3 bags over 2 years I have only gotten 2 seeds to germinate, either my methods are very flawed for Red Valencians/Tennessee Reds or this is a trash product! I went with black peanuts from Rareseeds.com and my germination rate is much better even though I started them in the same presoak bath and subsequent wet papertowel as the Tennessee red. Even accounting for the fact there was more black peanuts the germination rate is still much higher from the other vendor than for this trash. But maybe it's just me getting it too wet for too long for Tennessee Reds? They are rot prone.

So I plant only indoors and assumed I would just throw them into the pot and they would be fine. But just incase I started with 5. My first set was too wet too long and rotted from the inside out. It was absolutely nasty so I was going to leave a negative review but I went over things again and decided to try with 5 more of them. This second run worked perfectly. Within 14 days they germinated and now I have big plants that are getting ready to move into their final container (back issues so I can't get down on the ground). Tips: These are viable. I kept getting things saying if they weren't in the shell they weren't viable, but these where all out of shell and the ones I did correctly all came up. Don't get too moist/wet. My first set rotted from being in standing water, folloe the directions to the letter. Put in large containers once germinated. These roots where massive with the first sucker leaves. 5 to 10 times the size of the nut and leaves itself, lost one to transplant after I busted the tap root. Move quickly, I waited too long on one of the germinated plants and lost it. Lots of light, too much water. I ended up with 4 plants so I gave one to my mother and she absolutely rotted the entire root system from way too much water and not enough light. Direct light seems to be working really well with these ones. Enjoy planting ~

This was my first try at peanuts but I've successfully planted a ton of annuals. These took a while and I only got at best 50% germination. It's possible some animals may have stolen some before they sprouted though, I'm not sure. The instructions were pretty good but these were pretty expensive for the few plants I ended up with.

Slow to germinate

Easy to grow and got great peanuts!

Really disappointed, not a single seed sprouted out of the 18 intact seeds that we received. Paid for 20 seeds and 2 of them were completely crushed. But again 0% germination rate. I’d recommend getting seeds elsewhere.

Full pack, 5 or 6 where split and never sprouted. Of the rest only 5 sprouted, the few that grew are doing good. Not sure I'll get again