Water germination for VFT

[Cindy]

I am trying out the water germination method suggested here.

The seeds were sown on 2nd july and I found two seeds with roots today!

Here is what the VFT seeds look like befor I sowed them.

 

[cool85k5]

I might have to try that,thanks for the link!

 

[connor]

whats water germination

 

[scottychaos]

interesting..but why water germination?
why is this any better than "normal" germination?

Scot

 

[denverone]

I tried the water germination over regular germination and those that were on regular soil germinated at the same time and I did not have to move any seeds.

 

[Adam]

You dont have to stratify, do you

 

[Capensis]

whats water germination

She has a link to what it is in her post...It's when you germinate seeds in pure water, and not in soil.

 

[Cindy]

I am just trying it for fun since I have fresh seeds. Personally, I can't say what advantage it has over traditional sowing because previous seeds I've sowed on media didn't germinate even after stratification.

 

[cp-connection]

Those are chocolate covered raisins.

 

[jimscott]

Something I've been trying this summer is having a tub of LFS, with rainwater, on the porch. I've been tossing sundew & liniflora seeds in there, as well as D. binata & filiformis leaves in there.

I just started that and so far I see that the binata leaves are sprouting. The beauty of that kind of setup is that you can always take a clump of it with sprouted whatever and transfer it to a pot, without putting anything into shock.

 

[Adam]

I am just trying it for fun since I have fresh seeds. Personally, I can't say what advantage it has over traditional sowing because previous seeds I've sowed on media didn't germinate even after stratification.

So no stratification!

 

[Cindy]

So no stratification!

Only with fresh seeds.

 

[adymitruk]

Don't stratify at all. Fresh seed has the highest germination rate. Sow right away.

 

[Cindy]

11 days has passed - 5 seeds germinated

 

[Cindy]

 

[Halt]

Maybe putting peat on the bottom then letting the water evaporate so the roots go into the peat making movement much easier ?

 

[Cindy]

In the middle - the first seed to germinate

 

[duckking]

Oh~ Congratulation!
That was a pretty smart method.
I'll try it next time.
Thanks for your sharing. Thanks~ Cindy.

 

[Noddy]

Interesting thought

I have a question to ask please, I have now had two off spring from my mother plant and managed to get mine to seed, ;-) and it's going strong .... My question is this when can I remove the seeds from the plant, and do the seeds need to be chilled, before they will germinate. Please can you let me know thanks...

Noddy

 

[chezilla]

Can this method be used with other types of CP's? I might try this out with some capensis seeds.