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Originally Posted by bower
Chris, did you pre-treat the L. cheesmanni seeds? These and others from TGRC can be difficult or impossible to germinate without treatment, although they are viable.
I did not manage to germinate some Lycopersicoides accessions last year with ordinary treatments, (Pimpinellifolium germinated but took weeks) so this year I followed the method recommended by TGRC using half strength bleach (which is pretty extreme!), and the stubborn ones are up 4/4 this time, also as quickly as tomatoes.
Check it out if you hadn't seen it: http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/seed_germ.aspx |
I remember hearing about this, I hadn't pursued this because I was hoping since the cheesmanni was originally crossed with 4 tomatoes and then processed through to F5 that there shouldn't be any non-standard germination barriers. I replanted 97L97 yesterday. If these don't germinate, I'll look into alternate germination methods. Thanks for the link, I'll start looking at this now.