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Well, seems I got sarracenia seed in vitro, just today when I decided to take some pics of the rest of the plants I noticed the seeds I stratified in sphagnum in june and planted on july 31 have germinated, first ones are S. oreophylla, and the next photo is S. minor.






At the moment I had no AG3, but now I do have some, and wanted to ask here, is it possible to make them germinate quickly using AG3 as a pre-treatment, or is it better to do it in the classic fridge stratification? (Which I see is successful)

After I disinfect and get the seeds into culture, I put the jar in the fridge for stratification.

And it has worked?

Yep.

Great! a must try method!

for now an update, seedlings growing very good in the medium, slow as any CP

just reviewing the topic, the plants are ok and I have just made another introduction with 6 species.
algo I got up to see an article mentioning that AG3 indeed is useful on breaking the dormancy, and is compatlible with PPM.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4293294

coline wrote:Well, seems I got sarracenia seed in vitro, just today when I decided to take some pics of the rest of the plants I noticed the seeds I stratified in sphagnum in june and planted on july 31 have germinated, first ones are S. oreophylla, and the next photo is S. minor.






At the moment I had no AG3, but now I do have some, and wanted to ask here, is it possible to make them germinate quickly using AG3 as a pre-treatment, or is it better to do it in the classic fridge stratification? (Which I see is successful)

I have planted 20 sarasenia seeds for 3 weeks, but they do not germinated yet. How long does it take for yours to germinate? I have used 1/2 MS+ 3% suger+ 7gr/l agar for medium without any hormone. is this medium proper?

Well, as you read from my post it took 2 weeks, usual time also for non in vitro seeds