To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] aronia cleaning/growing
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:11:52 -0800 (PST)
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!