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[Spidra Webster <spidra@speakeasy.net>]

Hi there,

I have been collecting seeds from this year's disastrous cherry harvest, trying to salvage something by at least germinating them for rootstock, etc.  I picked them pretty clean of flesh before putting them in a ziploc bag with a damp paper towel in the fridge. I checked them today and about 3/4 of them had a fine dark green fungus growing on them. I tried spraying a detergent on them to see if I could kill the mold but it's very difficult to clean the seeds of all traces of mold. Does anyone have a suggestion for how I could treat them without killing their ability to germinate?

Megan Lynch

Berkeley, CA

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