VFT Seed Sterilization

Re: VFT Seed Sterilization#51723

By Julian -  Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:37 am
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- Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:37 am #51723

20% bleach for 20 minutes burn my vft, i prefer 10% 13-16 minute or 2% bleach for 40-45 minutes.

Re: VFT Seed Sterilization#51789

By hackerberry -  Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:37 pm
Location:  Calgary, AB. Canada
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- Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:37 pm #51789

GA3 soak makes a mild scarification to the seeds too. It makes sterilization more easy.

hb

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Re: VFT Seed Sterilization#51826

By goldslinger -  Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:20 am
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- Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:20 am #51826

hackerberry wrote:GA3 soak makes a mild scarification to the seeds too. It makes sterilization more easy.

hb

Yea, I got some of that and have used it when I first started out back in October. The seller said these seeds have already been cold stratified, but GA3 soak wouldn't have hurt these either.

Thanks to You All's suggestions, I have about half of the 260 seeds down going on 2 weeks with no mold and some fuzzy happenings associated with pre-emergence on a good number of them.

Thanks, again everybody!

Gary

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