Re: Colchicine
Mike, I grow the Autumn Crocus. You can blender the tubers and add alittle
water for the correct strength. You have to have seeds with good
germination. It does not have to be your best seed, it can be. You have to
soak the seeds in a 1% solution for 48-60 hrs. I shake the jars every few
hrs. When I start them soaking I'll put 15 seeds in each jar. I remove 5
at 36hrs, 5 at 48, and 5 at 60. When they come out of the solution they get
rinsed and germinated your normal way. Mine go in to damp paper towels in
ziplocks, where its dark and warm. After germination I grow mine in 8 in
peat pots, under lights, for 1-2 wks. to see what kind of differences show
up. Anymore I almost always use the 48-60 hr treatments. I have grown
untreated along side the treated. From the start, in the pots, the treated
is a larger plant. In the field the treated plants grow bigger fruit, have
bigger leaves, bigger stems. They do it in the same amount of time. Harold
said I have found a way to treat just the vegetative portions of the plant.
This is good. We can grow them as big as we want and still breed with other
untreated ones.
Roger
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