I have collected a moderate number of OP hips from my CB which I figure I might as well germinate, but I’m wondering if I have enough to conduct any sort of meaningful experiments on germination. (I haven’t hulled the hips yet, but I’m guesstimating maybe in the ballpark of 50+ seeds or thereabouts – nothing statistically significant, but perhaps enough to give me an idea as to whether one process might work better than another, assuming fairly high rate of germination under ideal situations…)
What sorts of rates do folks normally expect?
I had some seeds from Kim that should have germinated “like grass seeds” which have not yet had much success. Obviously, I am doing something dumb. (When I was actively doing this years ago, I generally had pretty high germination rates across the board, but was using a very old fridge that tended to ice up and worked poorly more often than not. A do-gooder once defrosted the old beast unbeknownst to me, whereupon I had everything germinate only to freeze hard in the newly uber-effective fridge…)
I’m also curious, in view of the fact that most fridges are set around 33 degrees Farenheit, do a lot of you have dedicated fridges set to a warmer temp for your seeds? (I cannot justify a small second fridge, but was just wondering if my kitchen fridge is part of my problem…)