Re: TB:CULT: are your seeds hard?
- Subject: Re: [iris] TB:CULT: are your seeds hard?
- From: w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 21:07:04 -0600
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Christian, not everyone practices the toilet tank/burrito/ fridge procedure for sprouting
iris seeds. I haven't and never will!
Can you imagine the 'big' hybridizers doing this? How many toilet tanks would it take
and how many flushes to get it right for a goodly number of Schreiner's or Cooley's
seeds to sprout?
I would say that most hybridizers pot their iris seeds or put them in flats and let
Mother Nature do the rest outdoors.
I never heard of any other procedure until I joined this list.
In the snail mail robins and in AIS Bulletins of yesteryear, the only procedure I read
for sprouting seeds was what I mentioned earlier - pots or flats outdoors.
I am sure that if you planted your seeds in pots or flats outdoors, in a few weeks
you'll have germination.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
On 1 Mar 2003 at 21:01, Showtime Farm wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I know y'all recomend soaking seeds in toilet tanks and then making burritos
> out of them and stuff, but I didn't join this list until after I had planted
> my seeds so I didn't know that then.
>
> When you do soak them and freeze them are they hard? After soaking, but
> before burritos? I assume they are softened by the time they germinate in
> the burritos. They are fairly hard when you harvest them right?
>
> Christian
> Ky
>
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