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From: "J.E. Shields" <jshields at INDY.NET>
Subject: Re: Out In The Cold?
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Hi George F.,

Do you leave the tubers in the refrigerator until you see signs of
growth?  When I pull pots out of the fridge after 3 months or a little
longer, I sometimes get no growth at all.

Best wishes,
Jim Shields
in hot central Indiana (USA)

At 10:18 PM 9/23/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>I have not insinuated or proposed that there is a cold requirement for
>seed germination.  As a matter of fact, he only seed I have not been abl=e
>to germinate without such a treatment has been our local A triphyllum
>which may actually need one.
>
>What I referred to was the breaking of the dormancy of tubers which had
>gone dormant after their first deason's growth after germination.
>Since my first note, I have also got growth restarted on A tortuosum
>tubers after 5 months cold storage.  I have several other species in the
>refrig at present, and keep looking for a start of growth
>
>George
>Landenberg, PA
>USA

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