>What goes wrong - the roots can grow through the paper. Rot, fungus, >mould can develop. Usually this is a sign the seed are bad anyway. But >sometimes one is led to remove the paper, clean up the seed and continue. A dip in hydrogen peroxide, diluted with water or not, for about five minutes usually takes care of any fungal problem. I use coffee filters and keep them pretty much soaking wet. Incidentally, I did this for seed of oncocyclus iris (I now understand how to do the forced germination, but, fearful of the wrath of Nemesis, am unable to say how many onco seedlings I now have) and was told (a) that it works for other iris species, and that (b) the forced germination process makes cold treatment unnecessary. (The latter is true; the last batch of seeds of cold-hardy species I cut germinated within a week.) So, now I wonder why this wouldn’t work for some other species that normally need a cold treatment. Bob Nold Denver, Colorado, USA _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/