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Hi nessie! I have been sprouting lots of things, from quinoa to chick peas. I ordered from Sproutpeople.com and they sent a brochure along w/ my order. I use their methods and so I’ll pass along some of their info:
How to Sprout (see specific sprout instructions for variations)
1. Put seed into any clean container: a bowl, a glass or your sprouter. Rinse until water runs clear. Add 2-3 times as much cool water as seed. Mix seeds up to assure even water contact. Soak for 8-12 hours.
2. Transfer seeds to sprouter. Rinse well with cool water and drain thoroughly. Set in room temperature location with good air circulation (we use our kitchen counter and our dish drainer). Avoid direct sunlight. Dark is good, but air is much more important – your counter will be just fine.
3. This is most important of all: Rinse and drain thoroughly every 8-12 hours. Use a lot of cool water and then drain totally! Spin, shake and bounce your sprouter to get excess water out. Don’t skimp on the rinse.
4. Greening sprouts is easy. Sprouts will begin greening up when their leaves shed the seed’s hull. Avoid direct sun as it can easily “cook” your sprouts and dry them out.
5. (talks about de-hulling, gonna skip this b/c so far I haven’t had to worry about it)
6. Refrigeration: Don’t refrigerate sprouts until they are dry. We usually wait 12 hours afer our last rinse and very thorough drain. Store in a sealed plastic bag.
7. Clean your sprouter well between crops.
Ok, here are some more specific instructions from the same brochure:
Leafy: Alfalfa, etc. Alliums: Garlic, onion – Soak 2 TBSP leafy / 3 TBSP alliums per quart of sprouter. Leafy spourts will grow for about 6 days, when done they’ll have green leaves. Alliums will sprout for as much as 14 days and form straight shoots, like chives.
Broccoli, radish, cabbage, mustard and fenugreek: Soak 2 TBSP of seed per quart of sprouter. They will look moldy when you go to rinse on day 2 or 3, these are roots, not mold. Will begin greening up on day 3 or 4.
Oats, groats, almond, pumpkin, hulled sunnys: Soak up to 2 cups of seed per quart of sprouter. Soak groats for 30 min and rinse very well 2-3 times at 8 hour intervals. Soak oats, pumpkin and sunnys for 2-4 hours, rinse 2-3 times at 8 hour intervals. Soak almonds 4-12 hours. Rinse 2-3 times at 8-12 hour intervals. Don’t wait for them to sprout!
Beans, grains, and others unlisted: Soak up to 2 cups of seeds per quart of sprouter. Soak Beans for 12 hours. Soak grains 8-12 hours. We consider these done after 2-3 days, you may grow them longer if you like, up to 6 days.
Quinoa and amaranth: Use up to 2 cups of seeds per quart of sprouter. Soak quinoa for 20-30 min. Do not soak amaranth at all, just rinse well to get it going. Quinoa is done in 12-48 hours, amaranth in 2-3 days.
Mung Beans: Soak 1 1/3 cups of mung beans per quart of sprouter, soak for 12 hours. They are done in 3-5 days.
Their website is really helpful too. Sproutpeople.com
ginger
www.sproutpeople.com. Their website tells you just about everything you need to know and you don’t have to buy a thing to get the info. I bought their starter kit which included a sprouter and have had terrific success! I sprout my buckwheat groats and lentils in a regular bowl covered with a piece of cheesecloth, inverter over a baking rack for draining and they come out great. Kitchen counter for sprouting out of the sun. Put in frig when their done to slow down the growth.
thanks, but I can’t really buy a sprouter, is there any ways to do it without one
I use mason jars, cheesecloth and a hair band.
ginger
I have no idea about the dirt type, but it grows after you cut it, and you can eat it (chew well). There some videos in youtube: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=NOczBVR7vX4
I find using sprout bags to be the easiest way to sprout just about any seeds (except for flax seeds). Just put them in the bag to soak then hang them up to drain. Follow the usual timings. Once the seeds have tails I put them in a covered container in the fridge where they keep for a week easily so long as they are well drained and dry when I put them in.
Did wheat have a long or shot sprout? I eat mine white short sprouts. Anyway I do better with Kamut than with winter wheat. You may try buckwheat too.
Did wheat have a long or shot sprout? I eat mine white short sprouts. Anyway I do better with Kamut than with winter wheat. You may try buckwheat too.
gorawmom- mines have only a little white shoot. I sprout them for 24-36 hours (more or less)...
mmmorgans- quinoa sprouts very easy, i have done it with a jar (as you have explained).
Here’s a quick video on how to sprout Garbanzo beans.that may be helpful:
http://www.happy2beme.com/video/view-video.acti…
I rinse twice (morning & evening), I have read (but not try) that mung beans grow stronger if you put weight on them (between rinses) http://www.sproutpeople.com/seed/print/mung.html
My garbanzos sprout so very well, too much endeed, because I don’t like too long, but they grow up in the fridge fron one day to another!! (they are supposed to be organic, perhaps they’re muntant garbazos…).