Smoke-water and bulb growth
Makiko Goto-Widerman (Fri, 03 Jan 2014 19:52:10 PST)
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
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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
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