ACV = Apple Cider Vinegar. Just following advice from the link I posted last week re Scarifying. Fingers crossed, really need my native seed (at least) to fire, if at all poss. I would theorize that the best DNA is contained within the hardest seed coats, just as many edible plants, grown 'hard' or even stressed, produce the best eating and keeping qualities.
That's an interesting notion, maybe I'll find evidence of it in my back garden. I call it the survival garden where I plant and forget, just leave it to the weeds and drought and then keep what seeds I do get.
Why do you think the best DNA is in the harder seed coats?
A longshot theory but the other way to look at this, is , maximizing germ via scarifying may be a very simple hack vs all the hours foraging for seed over 3 months? Thanks for the info on seed-swell, that is helpful. Now I wish I left them on the wet napkin to imbibe, haha, more trials to come. Should have several thousand seed from the coming season, have to do better than 5% germ.
If you get thousands of seeds and plant say 1000, and 5% sprouted easy that would give you 50 plants. Do you think they might not be as good as those that would have sprouted with scarification? I hope that isn't the case as that is the path I've taken with mine. I don't think it is though cause mine are just getting better in production, flavor as well more easy to sprout.
I think the more seed to seed generations that go by it easier and easier. Well except for the work and commitment part. Also think cause of their very complicated genetics we will never run out of new experiments to run and new things to learn.
