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Re: lavender germination

At 21.14 31/07/97 +0200, you wrote:

Hi Olivier and Patricia,
for seeds' germination it is necessary to make "Stratification" i.e to put into
refrigerator for to reproduce the same conditions of winter;only then you
can bring to grow your seeds:take sphagnum and soap 4 volumes of this with one
volume of water,after you mix four volumes of sphagnum with one volume of seeds
taking care of to leave them two or three days to hot inside a plastic
bag;now you will be able to put it in refrigerator for three or four
weeks(it depends from seeds' species)remembering to remix all bag each week
for to ventilate
seeds.after this period you can sow seeds.

BTW Olivier,you forgotten to remember another crossbreed between L. latifolia
and L. angustifolia i.e. Lavandula X hybrida very fine for essential oils.
regards
marco
favero@inrete.it
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>Hi Patricia
>
>I sow botanical types of lavender (for example L. lanata, L. angustifolia,
>L. latifolia ) in autumn, in a greenhouse with a soil temperature of 20 °
>C. They start germinating after about three weeks.
>
>Though it works for me in a greenhouse, often mediterranean plants have a
>better germination if they take some cold, like in their normal habitat :
>here in the wild Lavandula latifolia flowers in early summer, the seeds
>fall on the ground in autumn, and they germinate after the cold of the
>winter  with the spring rains. 
>
>We grow all lavender cultivars from cuttings, they're quite easy to succeed
>and you are sure to keep the same clone, while from seed you can have some
>variation.
>
>Good luck !
>
>Olivier
>----------
>> De : MrnLibn@aol.com
>> A : Medit-Plants@ucdavis.edu
>> Objet : seed/plant information
>> Date : mercredi 30 juillet 1997 21:45
>> 
>> I was poking around on the internet to find a phone # or website for
>either
>> Unwins Seeds, Ltd., Cambridge, or Lake Valley Seed, Inc. Boulder,
>Colorado.
>>  I didn't find either one (these are the names on a seed packet I have
>for
>> Dwarf Lavender Munstead Strain, and I was looking for further
>information).
>>  I didn't find either company's addresses, but I did find another site:
>> 
>> http://www.worldseed.com/index.htm
>> 
>> which is kind of interesting.  It has flower, vegetable and herb listings
>for
>> the U.S. and U.K., and vegetable and herb listings for Italy.  You can
>order
>> seed directly, but there are also picture and information entries (the
>seed
>> package is actually shown, with planting info. and germination time) just
>for
>> browsing purposes.  
>> 
>> Kind of handy for a quick look-up when other sources aren't available.
>> 
>> BTW, what I'm interested in is the germination time for Lavender (the
>packet
>> I bought didn't say this, and several books I checked also didn't say). 
>I
>> planted seed 7/7, and everything else I've planted (almost) came up a bit
>> ago.  But Worldseeds says the germination period is 25 days, so I guess I
>can
>> relax.  I put out an inquiry on the newsgroup rec.gardens, and the one
>> response I got said not only that it can take 6-8 weeks, but that the
>seeds
>> need a cold period, like several weeks in the refrigerator (which I think
>is
>> a pretty serious omission on a seed packet!). 
>> 
>> Has anyone else had experience growing lavender from seed?  Any
>> recommendations or advice?  Thanks a bunch in advance.
>> 
>> Patricia Ryan
>
>
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