Re: Propagating Oak & Elderberry
- Subject: Re: Propagating Oak & Elderberry
- From: L* J* R*
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:50:46 -0800
I've grown elderberry from seed successfully. The secret is that they
require a double stratification - warm, cold, warm, and one more cold (last
cold varies with species). You
can condense it into one year so they don't take any longer than other seed
if you start right away in the fall.
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>From: "Jaime Rodriguez" <jaime@matnet.com>
>To: <propagation-digest@mallorn.com>
>Subject: Re: Propagating Oak & Elderberry
>Date: Wed, Dec 19, 2001, 11:12 PM
>
>Elderberry has been very difficult in my experience. I think it must need
>to pass through the digestive tract of an animal or something. I have
>harvested the berries, cleaned them of pulp, and sown them outdoors and
>not had any germination in three years. I have not yet tried gibberilins
>(GA-3) or an acid wash, yet. I suspect greenwood or semi-ripe wood cuttings
>are going to be easier than starting them from seed. They grow wild here,
>but I haven't even seen any baby plants around the base of well fruited
>parents, so I don't know what the mechanism is to get them to grow. That
>is why I suspect they need to pass through some animals stomach to break the
>germination inhibitors.
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