Refrigerator During Blackouts...

[SavedByGrace3]

I have had experiences where older seeds develop a lower germination percentage. We try to keep seeds over the winter or buy new seeds. Even then, sometimes the germination rate can be less than half with some varieties.
Some of our most successful crops have been from volunteer plants that grow from the scraps of harvests gone by.
Most of the time seeds are very resilient.

 

[Sabertooth]

The tech recently came in and found a wiring issue that may have solved our problem. We won't be able to test it out until later in September.

I repeated the furnace test last night and it did not fail after running for 60 mins.