Re: asclepias germination

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Thx Denise!

On Tuesday, March 10, 2015, denise schreiber via gardenwriters <
gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:

> 8-12 weeks of cold before germinating at 70  degrees.
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> I'm away  from my desk and seed references but as I recall most Asclepias
> are 40-70  germinators.  So they require a 90 day period of damp
> stratification  at 40F before going to 70F soil temp for germination.  I
> confess I  don't remember how long they took to sprout in the 70F phase
> (again, I'm  away from my notes)
>
> In the nursery, most species were irregular  germinators in the first year
> at the best of times (again to the best of my  memory)  And worse in year
> 2.
> :-)  I never kept seed past one  year.
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> Hope that helps.
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