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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