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Re: Thompson & Morgan Successful Seed Raising

At 18:57 24.03.97 -0500, Ccopuntia@aol.com wrote:
>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?

I have also experienced poor quality of the seeds from T&M many times. It is
my impression that the quality is worse than average, compared to other seed
companies. Last year I ordered 2 packets of a Laurentia species, and had no
germination in 6 weeks. I wrote to T&M, and got 6 new packets back free.
None of these germinated eighter. These seeds were supposed to germinate
without any special treatment. This year I have sown Linaria alpina from 3
different sources. The T&M seeds have lower germination rate than the two
others, which is a seed company and a packet of seed from a swap. 
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