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Author Topic: Nicotiana rustica Seed Colour  (Read 5824 times)

0L0

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Nicotiana rustica Seed Colour
« on: September 14, 2015, 02:42:50 AM »
It’s getting toward the end of the season here and I’m collecting N. rustica seed. Some seeds collected so far are a mid-brown colour, rather than black. Can brown seeds be viable? Are they immature or is there variance in colour? Most are black.

I look at an image from U.S. National Seed Herbarium…

http://www.ars-grin.gov/~sbmljw/cgi-bin/dispturl.pl?9806

The brown ones I have here are a little darker than that.
« Last Edit: September 14, 2015, 03:47:43 AM by 0L0 »
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Auxin

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Re: Nicotiana rustica Seed Colour
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2015, 03:58:58 AM »
Brown ones can be viable.
Do a germination test on some brown ones to see if thats the case for yours.
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0L0

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Re: Nicotiana rustica Seed Colour
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2015, 05:23:23 PM »
Hehe. I should have been a little less dim and thought of that before troubling everyone!

Thank you Auxin =)
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Re: Nicotiana rustica Seed Colour
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2015, 08:08:54 AM »
 I can tell you I have problems with bud worms and droppings

The worm droppings are larger then seeds untill they dry out and crumble, then they look just like seeds

 I throw out any pod with a hole in it, just to be safe ,But I always miss a few,  and if possible look at the seeds under 30x and you can tell the difference. The 30x is also helpfull in my climate as many seeds tends to come out the pods with mold issiues not visible to the eye (at least not my eyes)
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