Cold period for fresh seeds.

I recently crossed a gorgeous purple pheno plushberry male with a big yielding green pheno plushberry female and
a (what I think to be) rare pheno Killing Fields. I have looked at alot of KF pics to try to get information about it but I do believe its something special. Anyway, I was reading some stuff Eskobar had written about breeding and he mentioned the cold period to kill the "anti germination hormone". I looked around and didnt find anything strictly on cannabis seeds but I did read a nice article about cold "serration" I think it was called. That some species of plants require a month of 32-41 temps.

I had planned to let the seeds dry in the cure process then storing in the fridge like I do all my other seeds. Will the temps in a regular refrigerator be cold enough to give me high germ rates?

althor said:

I had planned to let the seeds dry in the cure process then storing in the fridge like I do all my other seeds. Will the temps in a regular refrigerator be cold enough to give me high germ rates?

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i've never had a problem germing freshish seeds
cut hang dry cure plant - so like 3-4 weeks past chop i get 100% generally
any not germing after that i'd say is a genetic anomaly as opposed to poor practice

yea bra im having trouble with fresh seeds on a durban WW cross im working w,
low germ rate on seeds less dan 3-4 monthe old gonna try da frezer trip as will
report back in a few weeks

peace an love bra
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Escobar knows wtf he's talking about...

It is called stratification and I haven't found it to be necessary for cannabis seeds. Seeds of many perennial plants require a cold period in order to mimic the environment in which they have evolved. This cold period primes them for germination once the temperature warms up. If your cannabis seeds matured on the plant then they should germinate very well without the need to stratify them.

jessy koons said:

It is called stratification and I haven't found it to be necessary for cannabis seeds. Seeds of many perennial plants require a cold period in order to mimic the environment in which they have evolved. This cold period primes them for germination once the temperature warms up. If your cannabis seeds matured on the plant then they should germinate very well without the need to stratify them.

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Thanks man.

althor said:

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I had planned to let the seeds dry in the cure process then storing in the fridge like I do all my other seeds. Will the temps in a regular refrigerator be cold enough to give me high germ rates?

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Fridge will be fine, I store my seeds the same way, plus the temps in the fridge fall into that 32-41* range. Win Win.

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