Spin Drying Soaked Tree Seed Before Prechilling Improves Seed Handling
The traditional nursery method for pretreating dormant tree seeds is to soak the seeds and incubate them under cold, moist conditions – a so-called prechill (or sometimes stratification). But wet seeds of many species germinate prematurely during pretreatment and/or clump together and foul sowing machinery. This study shows that spin-drying wet tree seed is a simple and harmless method for surface-drying soaked seed, After spin-drying, seeds were at a high enough moisture content to respond to dormancy breakage, and by the end of a 6-week prechill were surface dry, free flowing, and suitable for immediate sowing. None of the seeds germinated prematurely. Tree Planters' Notes 45(1):32-35; 1994.
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Author(s): P. G. Gosling, S. K. Jones, A. S. Gardiner
Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volumes 45, Number 1 (1994)
Section: Peer- Reviewed and Refereed Articles
Volume: 45
Number: 1
