Sanding seeds, was:Re: List Options - Was: Re: [CH] Irrelevant postings V8 #433/This topic is not related to Chiles.
phil and meredith (brownz@dot.net.au)
Wed, 3 Oct 2001 10:55:09 +1000
> On Topic:Spring is here and I have just planted 60 Tepin seeds after
lightly sanding them with 1200 wet
> and dry paper and soaking in a mild bleach solution..
> Time will tell..
> Luke in Oz
i've heard about bleaching but what does sanding do?
i germinated about 100 seeds this spring without doing anything other than
putting them in moist seed raising mix, i lost 50 or so that had come up
through being too damp/mould. what sort of strike/survival rates do you
generally get?
regards,
phil (also in oz)