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Originally Posted by Lindalana
Great article, thanks for sharing! I did play with GA with perennial seeds,some hard to germinate seeds respond well to it but if you are wrong seedlings got very distorted and died.
I had best luck with seeds like thalictrums, where I could bypass cold treatment requirement.
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You are absolutely right when you say that distortion can occur.
It's very hard for me to remember what Craig and I did since it was so many years ago.But thinking about it today,this is what I've come up with.
GA by itself, control,no GA
Then adding different concentrations of Knitrate to GA,whic his known to wake up old seeds
And both of us using the exact same seeds.
Stay tuned for breaking news if I remember more, but the addition of Knitrate at different concentrations to GA I think was a good step forward.
Carolyn, did I forget to also say that the seeds we used were from the PCGRIN, and some they sent back had low to no germination?We cross referenced what we would request,then sent half the seed seeds to the each other.