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Re: Dumping ungerminated seeds

In a message dated 4/17/98 1:50:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jared@libcong.com
writes:

<< I second being patient. It is always when I am about to throw something out
 that I start to see little seedlings sprigging up! You have to wait for
 seeds to germinate. Don't always pay attention to literature and what it
 says about how long a plant should take to germinate. Many factors can make
 a seed wait longer to germinate: age of seed and method of seed storage,
 climate, soil, sun exposure, individual genetics of the parent plant(s)
 etc. 
 
 Besides, it is fun to forget you planted something and find it later!
 
 Jared >>

I don't know if this counts as a method of keeping seed, but this is what I
do.  If I just can't stand to wait for a pot to germinate any longer, I dump
the contents of the pot somewhere outside, on one of the beds.  Time and time
again, I have found seedlings the following year.  The downside is that I
don't always know what type of seedling it is.  But since I keep records from
year to year, it's not that difficult to figure out.  

Karen Ernst
Highland, MI Zone 5
NARGS
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