John KempfRegenerative Agriculture Entrepreneur

DIY Seed treatment for SeedFlare

10 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Transcript excerpt from a video demonstrating a DIY seed treatment using a product called Seed Flare plus a microbial inoculant. Speakers describe a low-tech workflow (spreading seed on tarps, misting by sprayer, drying, then placing treated seed into a planter with powder inoculant) and note practical challenges (spillage, debris, equipment improvisation).

So first we're using a product called Seed Flare, and then we're applying an inoculant. This is supposed to help the seed germinate faster and make the soil life associations. Earlier, we.
Decided to just kind of spread it out on tarps and then spray it with a sprayer so that it could be a fine. Supposed to be kind of a fine mist. Usually you would do this like on a conveyor belt or with an auger, but we don't have any of those things, so we're just kind of bootstrapping it. So now we're gonna let it dry. Tomorrow it's gonna go into the planter with some powder inoculant and some other things. I'm sure it's going perfectly smoothly. Oh, no. You're going to have me do it? Yeah. We'll say this.
There's not 80,000 kernels in each one. That's industry standard.
Well, there were until we dumped him on the floor.
And then you. You put him back in. You didn't count them out before you put them back in. You got debris in. In the tank. There's a piece of twine that could cause. Make sure the camera gets this hurt.
All right. I'm exhausted. We haven't even started planting yet, so.