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  • From: Amelia Hayner <abhayner@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] aronia cleaning/growing
  • Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:47:18 -0500

Sarah, you are a woman after my own heart! ha ha!
loved your idea of cleaning chokecherriy seeds.
And... kids that are concentrating on "cleaning seeds" ... AREN'T TALKING.
How great is that?
Amy
NC

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>wrote:

> I had to chuckle about you struggling to wash chokecherry seeds off! My
> delicious and painless method of cleaning the seeds involves picking the
> chokecherries I want to grow, giving them to my kids to eat while telling
> them to spit the pits into a jar!
>
> I've had great success growing chokecherries from seeds collected at a
> Provincial campground in B.C. (at least zone 7) here in zone 1-3, depending
> on the map. We have grown several hundred collected over three years and
> they don't die back at all either. And they grow even after they sit in a
> jar of kid spit around the campground for a week and then sit for another
> week or so (depending on how long it takes me to remember them)in my boiling
> hot black Suburban before I actually plant them outside.
>
> Sarah
> zone 3
> Edmonton, AB
>
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Richard MURPHY
> > To: nafex
> > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 7:55 PM
> > Subject: [NAFEX] aronia
> >
> >
> > 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!
>
>
>
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