Re: HYB: Why Stratify
- Subject: Re: HYB: Why Stratify
- From: p*
- Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 05:10:08 -0000
John,
You took the words right out of my keyboard. I was going to post a
question titled HYB: Seeds: why dry then soak? Glad I read the
latest messages first.
It doesn't make sense to me, to dry them out, then find ways to leach
out the germination protection. Unless since they wouldn't germinate
until spring, a winter might damage them. I doubt that applies to my
climate, since there are virtually no real freezes. My sense has
been that in my climate, I should maybe plant directly from pod to
seedbed. Although most that germinated from last year's planting
were those in pots rather than those planted directly into the soil.
Don't know why. But new ones are still coming out, so the advice
from this list and elsewhere to keep the pots into next year at least
for all to have a chance of germinating seems to be wise.
Patricia Brooks
Whidbey Island, WA, which seldom reaches the '80s in the summers and
less than '40s in the winter.
--- In iris-talk@y..., John I Jones <jijones@u...> wrote:
>
>
> Linda Mann wrote:
> >
> > Jim Rohrer in Inman SC asked:
> > <... is there a specified time you let the seed dry after
ripening?,and
> > before soaking in the old white bowl. ...Wondering where I'm
going to
> > plant them all.>
> >
> > I don't have in my notes how long to dry the seeds before
soaking. Last
> > year, I let them dry for at least a month, but that was probably
more
> > than necessary. I was planning to let them dry until they looked
about
> > as dry as they get, but don't know how long that usually takes.
Can
> > anybody else answer that part of Jim's question?
> >
>
> My question is this, why let them dry out at all? Take them from a
> mature, but not dry, pods and plant them directly into a seed bed
> (garden or indoors). The issue is that if you let them dry out,
then you
> have togo throught the soaking process to leach out the substances
that
> slow pr prevent germination.
>
> Planting them before they are dry avoids this process since the
> substances have not formed in the concentrations required to
prevent germination.
>
>
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