Cold Stratification?

Cold Stratification?#5461

By savagegardener -  Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:27 pm
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- Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:27 pm #5461

What is the minimum length of time that sarracenia seeds should go through cold stratification before they can be planted?

Thanks for the help,

Lucy

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Re: Cold Stratification?#5462

By hackerberry -  Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:29 pm
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- Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:29 pm #5462

Hello,

Typically 6 weeks cold stratification. Or you can use GA3 if you want to speed up the process.

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Re: Cold Stratification?#5464

By Matt -  Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:03 pm
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- Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:03 pm #5464

I've heard anything from 3 to 6 weeks. The ICPS (international carnivorous plant society) states 4 weeks on their seed packets, so that what's I usually do and I get decent germination.

As hackerberry says, gibberellic acid can be used to speed it up.

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Re: Cold Stratification?#5465

By savagegardener -  Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:29 am
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- Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:29 am #5465

thank you! I was told four weeks as well, but I was just making sure.

Lucy

The plant - described by Charles Darwin as "one of the most wonderful in the world" - is able to enclose a fly within its clamshell-shaped leaves in just 100 milliseconds, faster than the eye can blink.

Charles is the man.

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