permaculture

[harald sällström <hedongenerator23@gmail.com>]

'Seed Germination, Theory and Practice' by Norm Deno, perhaps?

there are links to where you can download the books on this page:
http://www.jlhudsonseeds.com/Germination.htm

/harald

> Hello!
>
> I once owned a book (actually more like a university scriptum), from a
> retired professor, I think it was from an university somewhere in
> Texas, but not sure on that, who did extensive studies on the
> germination requirements of hundreds and hundreds of plants. Wild
> plants mostly, for it is them who still have their weird germination
> patterns - like "3 weeks cold followed by 6 weeks warm followed by
> another 3 weeks cold will result in 40% germination at 21?C" etc.
> Usually such patterns will result in several years in the ground
> before germination, but thanks to refrigerators and the knowledge of
> the patterns we can get even plants with complicated patterns to
> sprout after 1 winter. And if I remember correctly, the name of the
> man was "Leno", but not sure on that one either.
>
> Does this ring a bell with anyone? I am grateful for all hints leading
> towards me attaining a copy of this treasure - preferrably online.
>
> Georg