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Cleaning redwood seed

Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) seed germination is characteristically low due to the high percentage of unsound seed. The Simpson Timber Company provided a 6 pound lot of redwood seed to the Small Lot Seed Processing Workshop to evaluation procedures of improving seed lot viability. Initial germination was about eleven percent.


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Author(s): James A. Rydelius

Publication: National Nursery Proceedings - 1978

Event: Nurseryman's conference and seed processing workshop
1978 - Eureka, CA