China Seeds

[Sylvia A Correia]

Roy:  I have A.sp. 101207 germinated - waiting for A.elephas 101907 to
germinate.  How will they differ from each other, if any.

Sylvia Correia
sacorreia at juno.com
zone 6-southeastern CT,USA


On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:08:37 -0500 Roy Herold <rrh at GENESIS.NRED.MA.US>
writes:
>So how are those seeds we brought back from Yunnan doing for you
>folks?
>I've heard from a number of poeple, and it sounds like most everything
>is
>coming up just fine. There are one or two exceptions, however, the
>most
>prominent of which is A. elephas (101907). There are strong
>indications
>this one has a double dormancy, forming a root first, then top growth
>after
>a cool period. I think Jim McClements has tried to hasten things along
>with
>GA3. As for me, I'm lazy and tend to let others plant the seeds for
>me. I
>was intrigued by A. elephas, however, and started a few for myself,
>but not
>until the end of February. I poked around in the pots last weekend and
>each
>seed I found had formed a little root, maybe a sixteenth of an inch
>long. I
>have been giving them a little bottom heat, warming the soil up to 70F
>or
>so. It will certainly be interesting to see who comes up with the
>first
>blooming specimen. Even more intersting will be finding out what all
>those
>'sp' really are.
>
>--Roy Herold
>