On Friday Aug 28th two more of the seeds germinated. Both of them were control seeds. Since then, six more have germinated, half of them control and half gibberellic acid. All of the seeds were clumped together in germination time regardless of whether they were treated in gibberellic acid. Six more have yet to germinate, but I'm questioning my methods.. there are so many sources of error.
This makes four gibberellic seeds and five control seeds. So far more non soaked seeds have germinated, rather than the commonly understood 25% untreated 99% treated. There's still much more to the experiment, but I'm starting to think that someone such as me who is in an unsuitable geographic location and can't work with a large amount of seeds is unfit to collect any kind of data. There are too many variables just with seed quality alone to test much without 100+ seeds, but I'll keep posting in case there are any obvious differences.
I put all of the cups on the windowsill with a hole through the plastic for each seedling. The first to germinate is starting to open up two leaves... I think. The first set of seeds I had never did that and instead remained green stumps for a month.
I'll upload pictures tomorrow. Comments and questions are appreciated.
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I've been following your thread with great interest. I have a mature miracle fruit which I hope will soon start bearing, and I want to try some home germination. Just wondering, is a single CFL directly overhead a plant like this likely to be sufficient light?
ReplyDeleteThanks,
Nate
I'm not really sure how to calculate the plant needs solely by electric lights, but I do know that miracle fruit generally have medium light requirements, and that a sunny window and small flourescent bulb is usually fine.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting, and good luck!
Miracle Fruit seeds don't need Gibberellic Acid to germinate.
ReplyDeleteI got 8 out of 9 seeds to germinate without it. I originally had 10 seeds, but I cut one in half to see what they look like inside.
Just be patient. They take 30-45 days to germinate.
That's exactly what I'm testing. Go to any growers site and the first thing it talks about is the acid, which I was wondering about. Currently it doesn't show any difference.
ReplyDeleteThough if you have a passable documentation (pictures, blog..) please post about it here http://www.miracletaste.com/index.php/topic,233.0.html
To sort out the discrepancies.