A piece I wrote for the Catskill Native Plant Society on cold stratifying seed.
A piece I wrote for the Catskill Native Plant Society on cold stratifying seed.
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A language primordial almost, before any other written or spoken language was invented. I still have the beautiful verses of Mihai Eminescu as a translucence of that beauty of communionis:”Peste varfuri trece luna,
Codru-si bate frunza lin,
Peste ramuri de arin
Melancolic cornul suna.
Mai departe, mai departe,
Mai incet, tot mai incet,
Sufletu-mi nemangaiet
Indulcind cu dor de moarte.
De ce taci, cand femecata
Inima-mi spre tine intorn?
Mai suna-vei, dulce corn,
Pentru mine vreodata?”
I just read this article on the Catskill Native Plant Society website. Did you end up doing anything special to the smilax lasioneura seeds to get them to germinate? I bought a pack from Prairie Moon and was just going to put them outside in a tray and let them cold stratify this winter. Thanks in advance
Dawn – I cold stratified them and got ZERO germination. I feel pretty confident that I did the stratification properly, so I would recommend trying a different approach. I would try warm stratification first, and then cold. The other possibility, as the seeds are somewhat hard, would be scarifying them in some way.
Thank you! will give that a try