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Re: Thompson & Morgan Successful Seed Raising

In a message dated 97-03-24 19:37:47 EST, you write:

<< Subj:	Re: Thompson & Morgan Successful Seed Raising
 Date:	97-03-24 19:37:47 EST
 From:	Ccopuntia@aol.com
 Resent-from:	seeds-list@eskimo.com
 Reply-to:	seeds-list@eskimo.com
 To:	seeds-list@eskimo.com
 
 Although I look forward to reading the bulletin, I'm hoping that it will be
 better than the quality of the seeds I have received from Thompson & Morgan
 in the last couple of years.  I wonder if anyone else has been experiencing
 this?  
 
 At first I thought it was simply that I hadn't honed my germination skills
to
 the point where I could be successful with the particular varieties I was
 interested in, but recently I have spoken to two other people (a propagation
 instructor at a local college and a local landscape designer) who were
 commenting on the low-to-zero germination rate they were getting from many
of
 the T&M seeds they'd ordered.  When some seed is priced at twenty to thirty
 cents PER SEED, this can be a very expensive failure.  I was very relieved
to
 hear their comments - perhaps it hadn't been all my fault after all!
 
 I would be very interested to hear if anyone else has noticed a similar
 problem.  I wonder if this might have anything to do with the "mother"
 company being based in England?  Could it be possible those of us in the
U.S.
 are receiving old seed?
 
 C. Carter
  >>

You've put into words what I'd been thinking for some time now.  By no means
a professional grower, I have attempted to germinate over 100 species the
past copuple of years and all of my dismal failures have been with T&M
seed.....

Karen Ernst
MI zone 5
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