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Growing honeyberries from seed?

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Posted by canadianplant (My Page) on
Thu, Jul 10, 14 at 8:05

This is the first year my honeyberries produced, but the harvest is small (of course). I tried a few of the berries and they have that bitter blue berry taste that I really like, but dislike at the same time.

I opened some of the fruit to check for the green inside (unripe fruit) and realized that the fruit has at least 6 seeds and remind me almsot exactly like tomato seed.

Seeing as they are most likely the earliest fruit in the garden, and maybe even in the wild, I am a bit stumped as to germination. Seeing as they ripen so early my gut tells me that they should be sown asap, yet a lot of northern plants need cold stratification. Anyone try immediate sowing vs waiting?

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RE: Growing honeyberries from seed?

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Yes, put seeds in right away, ..got lots of new plants this way.
But,..not sure if they will germinate when picking this early, when they turn blue I let them on the bush at least another two weeks, they get allot sweeter, [ripe] and almost black inside.

Mine don't look like flat tomato seeds, more like sesame seeds, [black] but very tiny,..about half size.

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