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Seed Treatments at Tourmey Nursery

After extraction our seed is dryed down to 6 to 9 percent moisture content and put in frozen storage. We have not had any luck in storing oak acorns. Conifer seed is tested using paired non-stratified and stratified germination tests. If these tests show that stratification significantly increases the final germination percent or the rate of germination then seed is stratified prior to sowing.


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Author(s): Gary B. Dinkel

Publication: National Nursery Proceedings - 1992

Event: Northeastern Area Nurserymen's Conference
1992 - Escanaba, MI