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"Clean the seeds" how ?    What's a fairly expedient process which won't do 
much damage to the germination potential ?

tc, s.WI


----Original Message Follows----
From: Brian Pearson <bjpearson@centurytel.net>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Prunus serotina germination
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:47:01 -0500

Clean the seeds as soon as the fruits are ripe and sow them outside ASAP 
with protection from rodents.  Many Prunus have much better germination with 
a combination of warm stratification followed by cold stratification.  If 
you plant the seeds as fruits ripen in summer or early in the fall, you 
should have good germination next spring.
Cheers,  Brian Pearson, northeastern WI, USDA Z4.


>  > I'm hoping to propagate a fairly nice P.serotina.  I've collected about 
> a  pint of fruit, and want to grow the seeds.   Found some good info via  
> internet searches, but wonder if anyone has some helpful tips-- I've never 
> intentionally grown this before.

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