Seeds - a lesson! A question?

[JohnAndSancho]

Maybe it's me, maybe this is common knowledge. Twice now I've collected huge inflourecenses of tightly packed Sabals and twice they've been full of weevils. If I find a solitary tree, or trees with some space between them, no issues. 

Anyway, after freezing and soaking both these and a few pounds of palmetto seeds, I end up left with maybe a dozen or 2 sinkers and lots of stinkers. The palmettos, ironically the ones I wanted more, after freezing, soaking, and peroxide I just said the hell with it and sprinkled them around the tree line and in the woods. It's not like they're hard to come by or expensive. And it's not like I don't have a couple dozen seedlings already, and they're not big sellers anyway. These minors got the same process albeit a much shorter time in the freezer and a much smaller inflourecense. I think I ended up with 20 of those that are soaking again and I got maybe 10 palmettos before I got tired of squeezing them and getting stink on my hands. 

There was a clean batch of Minor seeds I found between the library and a food bank, and those are on their way to Washington State right now. Again, much smaller batch from a couple solitary trees. 

For future reference if I do decide to grab a huge pile, is there a treatment process? Like straight to the fridge, fill a bucket with water and peroxide, or is this just something that happens when there's massive plantings all flowering and seeding together? 

[Enar]

First on my mind is bugs that are on the seeds, even bug eggs (palm weevil, etc) so I treat with whatever is your go-to pesticide that is safe on plants.

After that, to me, it's a matter of drying the seeds. I'll put mine on a paper plate and dry indoors. Especially during winter season when your heater might be running. It'll dry them fast. 

Just my 2 cents. Not an expert by any means, but I have seen my share of palm specific pests. They are super small. 

Weevil eggs look like sesame seeds on Pindo palm seeds FYI. There are microscopic palm borers that target sabals. I think they are bruchid beetles. 

[JohnAndSancho]

I need @Sabal Kingto weigh in here