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

Title: Re: [NAFEX] PawPaw Seed Germination

Pawpaw seed usually doesn't germinate until it gets quite warm, such as 80 F or above, and the soil has to be quite warm.  Your seed may not have gotten warm enough.  Try using a heat mat under the pot/flat.  You might even need to make a "sweat box" by putting the pots inside a wooden box with a piece of glass over the top of the box.    Once they germinate, they will grow at lower temps.  Your handling of the seed was fine, otherwise, as long as the seed didn't get dry.  Pawpaw seeds can die when they are dried.
> From: "Sammons, Isabella" <isammons@ofheo.gov>
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:50:48 -0400 
> To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] PawPaw Seed Germination

> NAFEX Members -- 
>
> I have some fresh pawpaw seeds that I would like to germinate.  Last year I kept gathered some fresh seed, put them in moist peat moss in a plastic bag, kept them in the refrigerator over winter,and potted them in the spring.  None germinated.  
>
> Would appreciate it if someone had some ideas on how I should proceed this year. 
>
> Thanks very much. 
>
> Isabella Sammons 
> Zone 7, Manassas, VA 
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