Seed Enhancement/Upgrading Techniques: Read The Seed
To the nursery industry in Canada, seed enhancing and upgrading techniques have ever increasingly become and are now an integral part of their operations prior to greenhouse sowing. The terms "enhancing" and "upgrading" can be used interchangeably, but they essentially mean the same thing. It's the idea of improving the quality of initial processed seed, which can be accomplished in many ways. Our upgrading work encompasses a number of coniferous species, such as white, red, jack, and lodgepole pine, and white, black, Engelmann, and blue spruce. Credit for the initial "operational Incubation, Drying, Separation (I.D.S.)" beginnings in Canada over and above the documented research goes to the former company of Western Tree Seeds of Blind Bay, British Columbia-Frank Barnard and Tom Hilman to be precise. These two gentlemen began with an idea and made it reality. Others have also had significant input, resulting in proving this technology to be a benefit for the nursery industry. Water separation techniques applied to cleaned seeds, removing physically damaged seeds, heavy debris, light debris, and dead/empty/partially filled seeds are making notable improvements to seedlot vigor and germination capacity.
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Author(s): Kim Creasy
Publication: National Nursery Proceedings - 2000
Event:
Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association Conference
2000 - Kona, HI
