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Hybrid Trachy seeds, germination, etc.


BeyondTheGarden

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Got some seeds off etsy from seller, "Desertscapenursery";  1. Nova x Wagnerianus; 2. Nainatal; 3. Nova. 

I tried scraping the fruit off the nova x wag but it's totally dry and not fleshy, and the endocarp came off with the fruit skin, revealing the endosperm.  I hope I'm getting the terms right.  I'm going to plant it and see what happens.  Not sure what to do with the rest.  I'm paranoid about mold because all of the Trachy seeds that I have tried with the baggie method have molded.  Even the ones that I have scraped the fruit and washed thoroughly.  

With standard fortunei, I know I can sow them directly in the garden, in the ground, and they'll sprout (no idea about germination rate).  But for more rare seeds I don't want to do that.  I know these seeds aren't that valuable/rare.  But I've got princeps seeds coming from Coldplant that I definitely want to get right.  

I know @Fallen Munk advised soaking in a mild bleach solution.  Any idea the ratio for that?  I'd hate to kill the seed.  But then again I guess the bleach wouldn't work in this case, as the fruit can't be removed without also removing the endocarp....  I feel like such an amateur asking how to germinate a seed.  Didn't have this problem with Jubaea or Cham radicalis.  

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I have never bothered this kind of things for trachy hybrids and sow them exactly like I have did with fortunei/wagnerianus which are not difficult. 
Princips I did the same but they have much more uneven germination rate in my opinion where some seeds where still germinating after a year. 

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Most municipal water supplies have bleach in the water, so I don't add extra.  Even with my Jubaea where I totally remove the endocarp.  I will say that every time that I have removed the fruit from trachy seeds and the endocarp comes off with the fruit, they always rot.  I got some takil seeds awhile back like that.  I think they were not mature.  I have about 100 princeps seeds coming from Coldplant, and about 300 Bulgaria X Wagnerianus coming from Plovdiv.   That's a lot of seeds to strip fruit off of.  I may just leave the fruit on.

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