James, Thank you for your information. I will apply smoke liquid for other seeds, too. Makiko On Jan 2, 2014, at 5:49 PM, James L. Jones wrote: > > Makiko, > I describe in my book, 'Fall and Winter Bloom in the Solar Greenhouse', how I used a condiment called Liquid Smoke to help germinate Erica and Protea seed (prompted by an article in Rock Garden Quarterly). With some species it meant a difference between zero seedlings and four or five of them. Granted, it sounds like sympathetic magic, but there the plants are, still going strong. > Jim Jones > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Makiko Goto-Widerman <makikogotowiderman@me.com> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Thu, Jan 2, 2014 8:33 pm > Subject: Re: [pbs] Smoke-water and bulb growth > > > Bill, > I was thinking about using "smoke" method for erica and syncarpha vestita seeds > from > South Africa to stimulate their germination. How to prepare smoke water? > Mixing with ashes? > Thank you for your help. > Makiko > > > On Jan 2, 2014, at 4:28 PM, William Hoffmann wrote: > >> I have seen multiple posts on this list about using smoke water to >> stimulate germination of certain species. Does anyone use it to >> enhance growth after germination? I recently came across an >> interesting article in which commercial onion seedlings were watered >> regularly with smoke water. It had an impressive effect on growth, >> compared to plants that did not receive smoke water. After 175 days, >> the plants receiving smoke water had more than twice the bulb mass of >> the controls. If this response is common among geophytes, it would be >> quite a benefit. Have any of you tried this? >> >> The article citation is Kulkarni et al, Effect of smoke-water and a >> smoke-isolated butenolide on the growth and genotoxicity of commercial >> onion, Scientia Horticulturae, Volume 124, Issue 4, 1 May 2010, Pages >> 434-439. >> >> BTW, I am a new member of PBS. So far I don't grow any bulbs that are >> particularly interesting or difficult - mostly just easily purchased >> things. >> >> Bill >> >> -- >> William A. Hoffmann >> Associate Professor >> Department of Plant Biology >> North Carolina State University >> Raleigh, NC, 27695-7612 >> Phone: (919) 513-7668 >> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wahoffma/labhome/… >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/