green berries/shriveled seed, was mystery seeds

[aaron floden]

>From my experience I have had seed of saxatile
collected from my own plants that were shriveled and
tiny from green berries, and then obviously plump
healthy seeds in lower quantities from red berreis. It
was probably about 30 seed in all. Most of them
germinated for me, even some little shriveled seeds.
I have had a similar experience with yunnanense.

Not sure if it would work for any other species
though.

Aaron Floden
Manhattan, KS
z5


--- Adam Fikso <irisman at AMERITECH.NET> wrote:

An A. fargesii of mine had a seed head
> where most of the "seed"
> have stayed green and do not appear to be viable,
> with no berry development.
> There are a few which have developed into red much
> larger berries.  I assume
> that the red ones have viable seeds in them.  Do the
> green less-developed
> "seeds" also germinate?  Are they less viable?  Just
> as good? Any relevant
> experience-based  information will be appreciated.
>                Adam in
> Glenview, IL


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