[PDF warning] Pretty detailed vegetable seed saving guide

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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

most seeds do work, they are just finicky or need a little help from us. once i looked into starting black locusts from seed and they need to be treated w boiling water... with notoriously difficult seeds they use like a 100 seeds just to get a couple of seedlings

I dunno, I really tried. I had several hundred of each, and I even 'stratified' them as suggested, which is basically a simulated winter. Even after that, none of the hundreds of seeds sprouted, I was so disappointed!

That's crazy about the boiling water.

Maybe I just got a bad batch of seeds.

Cherries sound amazing.

Thanks for the info! I think I'm going to buy some fruit trees soon. I'll probably just buy the whole tree to keep things easy.

[–]useless_aether[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the info! I think I'm going to buy some fruit trees soon. I'll probably just buy the whole tree to keep things easy.

the best way to go about it. but! my first purchase was from a big hw store and they mostly died. then i bought some from a big box gardening center and they mostly worked, but were 5x more expensive. then i tried a small nursery nearby who are mostly specialized in flowers and they also died. at last i found a university research facility that also sells to public and they were both cheap and had the most viable stock. or maybe i was just getting better at planting them :-)