Learning how to nick seeds is a valuable skill for all gardeners to master. While many seeds will grow with little help, others benefit from penetrating the hard seed coating. This process of seed ...

Cannas, sometimes called canna lily, are tender tropical plants that are generally planted as bulbs (tubers) in the early summer after the soil warms up. Many gardeners dig up and save their canna ...

Mechanical scarification and pre-soaking treatments for seventy-two hours with either water or 1000 ppm gibberellic acid (GA₃) accelerated seed germination of Seaforthia elegans L. palm. The greatest ...

Freeze-thawing has been established as an effective method to decrease hard-seededness and increase germination of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), but has not been adopted commercially. Since this ...

Roland-Story Horticulture students learned this past week about the subject of seeds and one of the lab activities they were involved in pertained to scarifying seeds. According to Brad Taylor, ...