Re: Re: HYB: seed germination?

Linda,

>I'd appreciate any thoughts from hybridizers who sometimes have poor
>germination and sometimes good.

I'm a novice dauber, not a hybridizer, but isn't that how it's supposed to
work :)?  I had good germination the first year on some pods, not much on
some others.  I didn't save all the pots of seeds then had them coming up in
the saved pots and in the seedling beds the next season.  Nearly half of
last springs seedlings were from seeds planted the year before.  Last year I
didn't have really good germination in the spring on any pod, but I kept up
with the pots of pods.  So this fall a bunch of those decided to sprout so
I'd have to fret over them all winter.  Two pods from the same cross now
have over 30 seedlings from the fall through the new one yesterday.  Only
three seedlings from these pods last spring.  Other pods have from one to
half a dozen, some none at all (yet, anyway).  My first seedlings from the
dried seeds planted in the fall just came up last week before our horrendous
freeze.  That is early here, so from now to somewhere around May 1, I should
be seeing the normal germination of what was planted in the fall and saved
from the spring before.  If there is such a thing as normal germination.

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA




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