Hi All,
What is the easiest way to perform "scarification" on small seeds?
And do you do this before or after performing stratification (freezing) on them?
Many thanks,
-T
Me thinks a bird eats the berry, his digestive system scars the seed, he poops out the scarred seed, the weather freezes for the winter, the seeds germinated in the spring. But then again, I do not know what I am doing.
how small?
sometimes such is provided by the environment via erosion/washing around and being abraded by hard things.
so pehaps you could put the seeds in a container with some sand and small pebbles and shake it a little.
if you have a lot of seeds you could break them into batches and apply different methods for different lengths of time to find out which one works best.
we all have to start somewhere.
songbird
30 bilberry seeds. I'd posit they are about the size of blueberry seeds or maybe onion seeds. They are small, but I do not have them in hand yet.
I like your idea of the rocks! Got lots of clean, pretty, small round ones.
Do I freeze the first? Or ruff them up them first?
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