Ok since no one else has answered and I have never personally grown them from seed, just cuttings, I'm not sure how helpful this will be. It is primarily a deep south perennial bush and so is never exposed to cold stratification in nature. I wouldn't expect it to require cold strat for germination.

If you have sufficient seeds I'd suggest splitting them and doing both with 1/2 the seeds - cold strat some and skip it on others. See which works best and report back.

Hope this is of some help.

Dave

I just sprouted 4 of 25 seeds - took about 3 weeks for anything to show... and I just put them in plastic egg carton with lid (one seed per egg pod) sprayed them often once to twice a day - and put them in a sunny window - I started in early May and they are still tiny on June 2 but looking healthy - I wonder if more would have sprung if I had done cold stratification...but I'm happy - at least I have four. :)