[Market-farming] Seed Germination?

Pat Meadows pat at meadows.pair.com
Sun Mar 8 10:39:53 EDT 2009


On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 13:44:12 -0500, you wrote:

>I planted two varieties of cabbage(seed about 2 years old) in the same 
>germination flat.  One variety came up vigorous and happy.  The other 
>germinated somewhere between 50 and 75%.  What did come up looks like it was 
>sprayed with chlorine bleach.  Definately not a soil problem as I was using 
>from the same freshly mixed batch.  Could this be caused by seed too old or 
>would there be pathology in the seed?

I've noticed this phenomenon - failure to thrive - in plants produced from
older seed as well.  I've noticed it more than once, and wondered about it.

I have a book on the botany of seeds.  I cannot do it right now (I'm sick
with a very nasty virus) but I'll look in the book and see if I can find
anything about this.  If I can find anything, I'll let the list know.

(I'll put the book on my desk right now so I won't forget.)

Pat
-- North-Central Pennsylvania, USA
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