Deno’s Garden

Picea pungens

Genus Picea

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1998

Difficulty High Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Gibberellic acid soak

  2. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 12 days to germinate.

20% germination in 12 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1998 · 2nd Supplement, Picea p. 55Public domain
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Picea (Pinaceae). P. pungens (KR) germ. 70D(none) and 70 GA-3(20% on 12th d). An earlier sample had given 4% (fresh seed) and 10% (seed DS 6 m) germination in 70D, but GA-3 had not been tried (2nd Ed.).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement, 2nd Supplement, Picea p. 55. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.