Fire needed to germinate seeds
Mary Sue Ittner (Wed, 12 Nov 2014 07:56:11 PST)

Travis asked:

One of the positive aspects of the pbs list is the archive of
previous posts that David Pilling created. It is especially useful if
you haven't saved a helpful previous post or if you are new to
growing bulbs or to the list. Some of the information from list posts
has been added to the wiki by the volunteers who give of their time
to do this, but since there aren't a lot of those, the amazing wealth
of information can be accessed by searching the archive.

Here's some posts from the past about people's experiments using fire
to germinate seeds, 2004-2006.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbslist/…

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbslist/…

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbslist/2005-August/…

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbslist/2005-August/…

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbslist/2005-August/…

I tried using the smoke papers that Silverhill Seed sells on Aristea
seed that I was finding hard to germinate. Rachel even gave me extra
seed so I could give it a try. I didn't find any difference and in
fact I think that I had better germination in the untreated pots.
Erica seed pots treated with the smoke water germinated much better
on the other hand than pots without it.

Mary Sue