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You can always trust Dr. Goheens advice...he has wide knowledge of rhododendrons.

But, by 2 yrs TLC he does not mean indoors...rhododendrons will suffer with your low indoor humidity. A cold frame, unheated greenhouse, lath house or shady cool area outdoors will be much better for your seedlings. Do not let the potting medium become overly dry.

Here is a link that might be useful: Transplanting seedlings, Goheen

I couldn't tell you which seeds are what but "laitues blondes et à couper" literally translates to "blond lettuces and to cut". I used Babblefish for translation
Karyn

Here is a link that might be useful: Babblefish

Soak seed in water for 12 hours THEN.... lightly cover the seed soil temp 65-75F

I had great results with "Gold" kiwi seeds. They were from a grocery store fruit. I used a seed mat and surface sowed the seeds on moist soil then covered the pots until germination. I kept the soil moist but not wet and transplanted the seedlings into individual containers when they had a few sets of leaves. They were kept under metal halide grow lights. This was done during the winter and I kept the seedlings on the mat until it was warm enough for them to go outside since the Gold isn't a hardy kiwi. I started giving them a very dilute all purpose fertilizer when they were about 10 weeks old. I lost a few but not many. I've just bumped up the container size as necessary. They are all in gal pots now and are in the greenhouse. They really need bigger pots but I'll wait until spring. I have no idea how you can tell male from female plants or if these just need to be crossed with another variety to produce fruit. These look nothing like my hardy kiwi varieties.
Karyn

Sedum - hardy types. Sow outdoors in Fall, or moist cold 30 days followed by bring to 60-65F for germination in 14 - 180 days depending on which sedum.

Sempervivum - sow at 70F for germination in in 14 - 42 days

carmen, I wintersowed sedum (autum joy) on March 14, and it germinated on March 22. I didn't record the plant-out date, but it grew and bloomed over the summer.

Apart from other advice on this subject already recently posted on this particular forum, this link looks fairly competent...

Here is a link that might be useful: Sprouting an Avocado Seed - Richard Jauron, Department of Horticulture

With the greatest of respect I would suggest that if you want to cut down (no pun intended!) on your maintenance, then you are growing and planning to grow the wrong plants.
You may be better of by growing something like a climbing or rambling rose, you would of course have to tie it in but it would be most unlikely to strangle your spout, obviously you would need to be picky about the variety or species, with such as R.gigantea and R.filipes 'Kiftsgate' perhaps being a tad unsuitable!

sorry i am in zone 6 north western new jersey.

Germination rate varies from tree to tree & year to year. Also have to consider survival rate... just getting though winter without being eaten by mice, etc..... We usually plant many more seed than needed & hope.... give extra plants to friends,

I have one, and wouldn't trust it with my best plants to give too much protection from frost, but it will certainly help for odd nights of frost- rather than a long period below zero.
I had some baby aloes, and only one survived...(but this may also have been due to drought).

But you can definitely use it for earlier seedlings and hardening off.

In England you can now buy a zip fleece coat for them!

If you put it in protected spot, it will help you with seedlings during those nights when temps drop to 32-33 level. After that it bound to get frozen as during night there will not be protection of anything so no difference of temps outside and inside.
Some hardy annuals and hardy perennials won't mind it. Let's say you can put there your early pancies and get away with it.

Remove pulp then Soak seed in water for 24 hours the store at 40F for 4 weeks then>>>>> do not cover seed as 9 hours of light is needed for germination + soil temp 60-70F & takes 28-35 days to germinate

George

Thanks for your response to my question about Liriope seeds.
Is there an easy way to remove the pulp?
After I posted my question I did find a research study that did talk about the warm stratification of the seeds. I've never heard of that before but I'm also a newbie.
Is it worth the effort to grow from seeds or should I just be trying to increase my plants by division?
Any other helpful hints would be appreciated.