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From seed to seedling, yippie!
- Thread starter Joseph Clemens
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Here is how I started my 11 little Cephalotus follicularis seedlings.
They were sown 5 May 2004 on the surface of 100% granulated Sphagnum peat moss. I kept them just damp but not wet, this was more easily accomplished by the use of a quart size Zip Loc brand, resealable plastic freezer bag. I kept them in their own bag and kept the bag under fluorescent lights, adjacent to my other CP.
The 90 grit silica sand, visible in the photo, is a late addition - I added the sand layer to help cover the plants roots to avoid any possible excess drying, since I was just about to remove them from their plastic bag incubation chamber and expose them to the ambient room air.
I presoaked the seed for about 5 minutes in a few drops of anti-bacterial liquid hand soap in a cup of warm water. I then thoroughly rinsed the seed in a fine mesh - wire straining basket and placed them, by hand (forceps), one by one equidistant from each other on the surface of their 2" x 2" pot. Within a few weeks 3 of them had germinated and were growing -- the remainder appeared to have contracted a fungal infection and I feared they would rot and suffer damp-off. More than a month later I was pleasantly surprised to see that the "mouldy" seed had germinated too.
My research on germinating Cephalotus follicularis seed indicated that no stratification was necessary.
They were sown 5 May 2004 on the surface of 100% granulated Sphagnum peat moss. I kept them just damp but not wet, this was more easily accomplished by the use of a quart size Zip Loc brand, resealable plastic freezer bag. I kept them in their own bag and kept the bag under fluorescent lights, adjacent to my other CP.
The 90 grit silica sand, visible in the photo, is a late addition - I added the sand layer to help cover the plants roots to avoid any possible excess drying, since I was just about to remove them from their plastic bag incubation chamber and expose them to the ambient room air.
I presoaked the seed for about 5 minutes in a few drops of anti-bacterial liquid hand soap in a cup of warm water. I then thoroughly rinsed the seed in a fine mesh - wire straining basket and placed them, by hand (forceps), one by one equidistant from each other on the surface of their 2" x 2" pot. Within a few weeks 3 of them had germinated and were growing -- the remainder appeared to have contracted a fungal infection and I feared they would rot and suffer damp-off. More than a month later I was pleasantly surprised to see that the "mouldy" seed had germinated too.
My research on germinating Cephalotus follicularis seed indicated that no stratification was necessary.
