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- From: "Anton Ptak" <antonptak@gmail.com>
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- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] starting apricots from seed
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:25:15 -0500
I stratified some manchurian apricots last year in a little moist soil in some plastic container in the fridge. It worked quite well and nearly all germinated, but they sprouted in november (must have started them a little too late). So I nursed the spindly little things along all winter inside, eventually putting them under lights. I got them out just after the last frost but unfortunately 40 degree nights still brought on the fall colors in May. I figured they were gonners but about half of them eventually came back, amazingly.
This year I have some dry apricot, cherry plum, and peach pits I'm going to plant out in late fall to come up in the spring for eventually grafting a year or so later. I figure I'll have less worry that way than having very small trees before the winter sets in.
Anton
Zone 4a W. Wisconsin
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- Re: [NAFEX] starting apricots from seed, Spidra Webster, 08/24/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] starting apricots from seed, Melissa Kacalanos, 08/24/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] starting apricots from seed, Matt Demmon, 08/24/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] starting apricots from seed, Dr.Chiranjit Parmar, 08/24/2010
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- Re: [NAFEX] starting apricots from seed, Anton Ptak, 08/25/2010
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