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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Storing Pits and Stones

Don't bother.  Just let them air dry well (assuming you have cleaned the flesh off reasonably well) and then stratify them in peat moss.  Peat has natural anti-fungal properties.  Any seed I've handled this way has always done fine.  The rare one that DID mold usually was a blank (empty) anyway.
-Lon Rombough
> From: Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:10:19 -0400 (EDT)
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Storing Pits and Stones

> Hello,
>
> Should cherry pits and peach stones be sterilized in a 10% bleach solution
> and dried before storage?  How long should they be sterilized?
>
> I plan on germinating them in them in the refrigerator (moisten late
> January), for April/May planting.
>
> Also, a 10% soloution would be 9 parts water to 1 part bleach?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
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