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Posted by annabel__WA z3 W Australia (My Page) on Sun, Feb 13, 05 at 1:47
| I have been trying to germinate native seed for a few years with limited success. I bought some seeds which I think were fresh seed, put a few of each on wet tissue in a container. Within days some germinated and I put them in tubes in seed raising mix. It is less than three weeks since I received the seeds and already have Euc. ficifolia popping up, the E. macrocarpa has also begun to grow. All five varieties have been potted up. I have never had such success before. I have old seed as well and not much happening there-yet. |
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Marvelous results Ann, I have never tried many natives, except grevillea,
but they sprout anyway without being planted so I cant count that.
Good on you I hope you get many good plants from those seeds.....MM. |
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- Posted by Liatris FraserCoast,Qld (My Page) on
Sun, Feb 13, 05 at 15:03
| Wow! You've done well. Did you get the seed mail order? |
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| Did I say three weeks? It was two weeks tomorrow I got the seed!! I checked the sale docket and it was dated Jan 26. I bought the seed on Ebay and I think it must have been fresh seed-a collection of 3 eucalypts, a Golden Dryandra and a Black Kennedia. All germinated and are in tubes or punnets. Mind you, I see a Honey Grevillea coming up that was on a previous batch and did nothing till I soaked it and put it in a deep tube. Maybe it's the seed raising mix. I bought a 25 litre bag rather than the small ones and it's Richgro. But the other germinated seeds are all in seed raising mix |
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| I've never had much luck with mail order seed. I have had lots of luck with my own collected seed though. I just visit friend's houses in the bush and collect seed from there. The fresher the seed, the more likely it is to grow in my experience. |
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