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| Possibly this "belongs" on the South African Native forum, but since that one is incredibly sleepy I'm hoping that someone here may be able to help with one or more of these species.
A friend and I recently bought seeds from Silverhill in South Africa. I got the following: Mimetes cucullatus (6 seeds)
I've put them in order of what I'm guessing are the hardest to easiest to germinate (I can't find anything about Paranomus, so I'm not sure about that one). From what I gather the Protea and the Serruria are not that difficult, but I shouldn't expect 100% germination. I have successfully germinated Proteas in the past. All but Brunia are Proteaceae. I have no clue about the Paranomus. I am most curious if anyone has any experience with that or with Mimetes and Brunia. The number I've seen for Mimetes is about 5% germination, and I think that for Brunia is even lower--but I have a ton of seeds. I've seen suggestions to try peroxide for Mimetes and smoke solution for Brunia, but the 5% number for Mimetes includes the use of such a treatment. I'd like to get at least one plant out of all of these. The other issue is timing. All of the seeds say to sow in Autumn. Am I fighting loss of viability of any of these--that is should I sow some now instead of waiting till Autumn? Although I gather Brunia really likes to start growing over the fall/winter I may start some just because I have so many. I'm not sure about the others. I live in the SF Bay Area, so hopefully our climate is appropriate for germinating and growing these guys. |
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- Posted by yiorges-z5il (My Page) on Sun, May 17, 09 at 20:56
| Have SOME experience with 3 1) Serruria lightly cover with soil. soil temp 64-75F taking 14-42 days to germinate 2) lightly cover with soil soil temp for germination (cooler than above) 43-54F hence fall planting 3)PRE TREATMENT scarify seed or soak in water for 12 hours THEN light cover soil temperature 64-75F taking 15-42 days to germinate |
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| yiorges, Thanks for the response--it's good to see someone has experience with some of these seeds. I confused, though, which seeds your conditions (2) and (3) apply to. Do you remember what sorts of germination rates you got? Thanks. |
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