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  • From: tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Seed Germination
  • Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:25:47 -0800 (PST)

Interesting. But I'm finding again & again that the major bottle-neck is
temperature. Most things have a preferred temp., and if the temp is wrong
then you
have a struggle on your hands.


--- Jim Fruth wrote:

> Some time ago, the local Orchid Society was having trouble germinating
> seed and I told them that I soak my seed in tannic acid - made sense to me
> because orchid seed germinates on tree bark and the bark of many trees
> contains tannic acid. I use that same technique when germinating other
> difficult-to-sprout seed. I had to play with germinating times though: for
> example, if parsley seed is soaked in tannic acid for longer than 12 hours,
> the chances of it germinating at all decreases.
> Alot of seed have an endocarp coating that must be removed before it
> will germinate. Mold removes that coating from tomato, et. al. seed.
> Then for seed that has dried for too long a time, a 24 hour soak in 5%
> bleach solution can facilitate germination. The bleach soak is recommended
> by Corvallis Germplasm Repository for some of the seeds they have been
> holding.


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