Re: Cleaning Tomato Seed, (was Re: Catalpa Seed)
I've always wondered about this. Everyone _says_ the floaters are no good,
presumably because the belief is that a floater indicates an empty seed
coat. However as a child I occasionally sprouted tomato seeds simply by
dropping them in a glass of water and fishing them out as they sprouted.
Floaters, sinkers, they sprouting pretty decently either way. Now I'm
willing to accept that after drying some former sinkers might become light
enough to be floaters. However I'm not convinced that the fresh floating
seeds are inherently bad.
I suppose I could figure it out myself with a trip to the grocery store and
a tomato or two, but since this is sitting here now, I'll ask if any one
else has tried to germinate this suppossedly non-viable floaters?
Thanks for flying,
Glider
At 06:40 PM 10/26/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>each day with the pulp, try to keep the seeds in. Any floaters, you can let
>go......they're no good anyway. After the seeds are clean, spread them on a
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