OF never makes good carpals at my house, so the method I used was to use OF as a pollen…
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Paeonia tomentosa ssp archibaldii
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A short update one temperature treatments for germination of peony seeds. As was noted a constant temperature was better than fluctuating temperatures. The seeds which went into the warm treatment later did show a difference in that the one that were left in my house at some 22-23°C had hardly made any progress and showed as good as no…Read More
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5 CommentsThanks Koen, I have also better results when I placed my seeds in constant temprature in my ‘home made’ climate chamber. In the past I did some trials with gibberellin treatments, do you have experience with this treatments?
Yes. But I’ll have to admit that I haven’t done a decent trial comparing seeds treated with GA3 and a control group. When soaking the seeds 24-48 hours prior to the warm treatment in vermiculite, the water has a concentration of 200 ppm (parts per million) GA3. Given the standard weight and concentration of GA3 tablets (10 gr tablets, 10% active ingredient), there is normally 1 gram of pure GA3 in them each time. Thus you need 1 tablet for 5 litres of water. (5 litres = 5 kg = 5,000 grammes and 1 gram GA3 is thus a concentration of 1/5000 or 200/1.000.000 if you convert, thus 200 ppm or mg). I can see you’re a member in the hybridizer’s corner, have a look at the paper: Diversity of Treatments in Overcoming Morphophysiological Dormancy of Paeonia peregrina Mill. Seeds. In it several treatments with differing concentrations of GA3 have been tried and 200 ppm (=mg) seemed to give the best result. Given those results I simply used that concentration and then forgot to make a control to see if it also the best solution for other species/crosses than P. peregrina, but I reckon there won’t be too much of a difference.
An interesting article for commercial growers of peony cut flowers:
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thanks