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Wednesday, January 01, 2014
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Matt D.
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Connecticut
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Picture taken Dec. ’13 / Jan. ‘14
Embryo Rescue Trial
This is the first full scale trial that I preformed with my experimental seeds that were of varying degrees of being solid. Pictured here are the official trial plates that were used. While there are various notes to provide some data for me, in short, I think I found one media formulation that worked the “best”.
Two recipes were close, but after the trial inspections I felt one of the formulations may have caused some root mutations (which could be a result of one of the additives) so I chose the one I felt most confident in as producing a normal seedling.
I can say that the “D grade seeds” (which were the poorest quality estimated to be only 25% solid and “A grade” being 100% solid) sprouted at a rate I am very happy with (over 50%!!), when on the media. These same seeds I would give only a 1% chance of germinating at best during normal germination methods. However, all of the trials do not matter if it does not work on the real seeds but at least I have confidence that I now have a formulation that will drastically increase the odds of germination on compromised seeds.
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