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Have you ever tinkered with citric acid and germination?

On a food network show someone talked of adding citric acid solution when sprouting seed to eat. It wasn't clear if they did it to aid germination or as a preservative after germination. I suspect it was a preservative after the fact. Just curious. Are you familiar with any uses for citric acid?

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  • the_yard_guy
    10 years ago

    Albert,

    Yes citric acid can be used to help seeds germinate. Some seeds have a very tough seed coat and using citric acid on those kinds of seeds can help soften the seed coats in some cases.

    I have not used for seed germination it but I do have some citric acid for cooking purposes.

    Here's a link to a site that discusses soaking juniper seeds in citric acid:

    http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_rm/rm_rp263.pdf

    Thanks.

    TYG

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