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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] punes
  • Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:28:24 -0800

Commercial prunes in the U.S. are dried in driers at temps that kill the seed. OTOH, I've gotten sun dried fruit from the Middle East that had viable seeds - figs, grapes mulberries, etc.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
Grape pruning video: http://www.bunchgrapes.com/dvd.html View a short, low resolution clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q58zFY0B1M
A video about The Grape Grower : http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/

On Mar 10, 2011, at 5:39 PM, dylanford wrote:

Folks

Has anyone on the list ever successfully sprouted commercial prune seeds?

Just for the hell of it I have tried this several ways, several times with never a single sprout resulting. I have written to Sunsweet, etc., to ask if the prunes are irradiated as part of the processing, never received any response.

Anyone got a clue? Thanks. dylan
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard MURPHY
To: nafex
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 7:55 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] aronia



FWIW;

I have about 80% success germinating Aronia Melanocarpa (Black Chokeberry) from seeds I harvested from fruit last fall.
They needed 110 days in the fridge in damp paper towels under plastic wrap on a plate. I have about 36 seedlings.

Washing this fruit is a bugger. It has the worst slimy coating I've ever encountered, but apparently that didn't affect germination enough to fix that problem. After 110 days, I could actually see small sprouts on some seeds! That means, Plant Now!

Just another 'experience announcementt'.

Murph

R A Murphy Jr

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