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Juniper Germination Simplified

Unpredictable and erratic germination of juniper seeds often results in production quota shortages. Bessey Nursery personnel have developed a method that is used regularly to provide satisfactory germination of _two species of juniper (Juniperus viginiana and J, scopulorum) used extensively in windbreak or shelterbelt planting in the Plains States. Seeds of both species possess impermeable seedcoats and embryos with varying dormancy. The afterripening needed to break the dormancy can occur only after the seedcoat is made permeable and moisture has entered the seed. To make the seedcoat permeable, it is stratified in a moist medium at room temperature, 68°-86° F.; this procedure provides better results than former methods of scarification by abrasion or soaking in sulfuric acid.


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Author(s): M. K. Meines

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 70 (1965)