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Bach

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Re: Germination of P. Viridis: sucess!
« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2015, 04:43:56 AM »
Over the last two or three years I've had seedlings pop in the yard just from seeds the mother plants dropped.  One day Pv is going to lose the reputation as being difficut to germinate. Fresh seed and humidity are the keys. It' not difficult, just time-consuming.

Also...several years ago I ordered PV seed from a commercial vendor. They came dried, but still in the berries. Much to my surprise they turned out to be viable! Something about the berry flesh seems to help them retain viabliity.
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Re: Germination of P. Viridis: sucess!
« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2015, 10:44:32 AM »
The easiest way i have found to germinate them is by putting them in a bag with peat moss and forget about them for a couple months. When the tap roots have grown to a good size I plant them in a very well draining soil and cover, after the second or third set of leaves I start to acclimate them to normal humidity. I have had probems with seedlings "damping off" if potted in a heavy soil, leaf cuttings do not seem to have this problem. Seedlings tend to acclimate faster than leaf cuttings as well.

Pic of a couple of this years seedlings, they were from dried seeds without the berry.


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Re: Germination of P. Viridis: sucess!
« Reply #17 on: April 25, 2015, 12:24:34 PM »
Growing P.V. from seed is a patience challenge!

Mine 2 babies are in great shape, growing slow is truth, but very healthy.

For some reason one had developed faster than the other, this  intrigues me because both are growing in the same conditions, same soil and temperature. The only difference is that I removed the seed shell from one of them and that is twice the size of the other.. could be that the reason?
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Re: Germination of P. Viridis: sucess!
« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2015, 03:50:15 AM »
Nice work there Roze!

Just a word of encouragement for those who think chacruna takes too long to grow... Hang in there, after eight years or so they really take off!

 ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Germination of P. Viridis: sucess!
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2015, 05:02:18 AM »
Hey I have a new Viridis study going on now too,
these are some seedlings growing in my aeroponic cloner, they
are being given light using LED's.  The thing is that I am breaking them up
into 2 groups half receiving blue spectrum only and the other half
is getting blue and red spectrum.  Blue is used for vegetation and the red
is used for the flowering stage. I already noticed that they are outgrowing
my soil grown viridis by double, which I started from seed at the exact same time.
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